Unfortunately, the handle will be warm or at a higher capacity even hot, so that the touch may be uncomfortable. (Depending on your own sense of temperature.) An advantage is that is that the heat is kept long, the handle but why not really cool. The water boils fast and the stove is not overly loud. Since I do not daily gebrauche it does not bother me this "lack" on. Visually, it makes what forth, and at the price you can not really complain too.