Imagine, there you are staring at the beautiful tea leaves in your glass teapot debating if you want to add milk or honey when you finally get to drink your tea and then you see it. Not only do you see tea leaves in the glass teapot but flakes of limescale floating in there as well! Yuck, who’d want that? I use fresh water every time I use my electric kettle for tea and limescale still builds up. Now limescale is not going to kill me but I am very picky what I would like with my tea and limescale is not one of them. I am then faced with 2 choices a new kettle or clean my current one. Cleaning a kettle is pretty easy- it is like making a cup of tea. Can you pass the lemon?
My brothers new kettle
My brother recently purchased the beautiful William and Everett Gooseneck Kettle. It is so very cute, stylish and with great reviews. He loves it so I had to try it. With the shape of it’s spout it slowly pours perfectly into a teapot making a fabulous pot of tea. It can fill over 3 mugs. It’s compact in size so it does not take over a lot of room on the counter. I really liked it. The only drawback: here in South Texas is that limescale forms quickly on all kettles (especially with the amount of tea we drink). The quick and easy solution to keeping his new Kettle in tip top condition was the lemon and it worked like a charm.
Limescale
Fighting limescale in my kettle is a constant battle so it’s a relief to know that something as natural as lemon can clean it especially if you have to clean it often. The hard water build up that leaves white deposits that stick to the sides of your kettle builds up so fast for me that if I was replacing a kettle with a new one each time, I would be replacing it every month or two. I have used vinegar to clean out kettles in the past and that is very effective and I’m sure there are kettle limestone cleaners but as soon as I heard to do it naturally with lemon I knew it was worth a try.
How to Clean a Kettle
Depending on the size of your kettle I took 2 large lemons and cut them into 1/8ths and put them in the empty kettle. I then added water and boiled the water. If you have a lot of limescale in your kettle you may have to boil it (with the same lemons) 2 or 3 times. Once you are done this you leave it overnight. In the morning you empty everything out, rinse the inside and there you have it a kettle that looks as good as new. Some of them even work better too.
Take that limescale, it’s lemon to the rescue!
I’m so glad there is a way to clean something I use multiple times a day naturally. If I add lemons in some teas then adding them to my kettle to keep it clean makes perfect sense. You really do not want a lot of build up of limescale in your kettle. Most electric kettles have some kind of mesh to catch any floating limescale before it gets into your tea. If yours does not I would suggest cleaning it out a little more often.
What’s your favorite way to clean out your kettle?
THANK YOU TO MY BROTHER FOR HIS PICTURES
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