Yes, I do apologize for busting your $20 tea kettle. You were asking why I had not thought to offer to pay for a replacement and I was speechless. Yes, why didn't I think of that? I forgot to take the tea kettle off the burner before the water boiled away and the bottom of the kettle was burned away, so obviously I cannot be counted on to remember much of anything, that's what a good cook I am. Sorry about that.