How can i descale my kettle?

Question

what traditional method is there to descale my kettle

Answer 1

I use vinegar
fill kettle then about a cap full
of vinegar
then boil a couple times
repeat and it works a treat
I suppose its about the acid
so lemon should do it as well
but my gran used vinegar

Answer 2

The answers above are correct. However I would recommend starting with a cold kettle of water and give it a good brush out with a washing up brush first. This will remove a fair amount of chalky. If you have a filter in the spout - remove this while you do the decaling and put it in the kettle when the vinegar has cold a bit. I found that this method was excellent and points to note are safety. You are dealing with boiling water/vinegar. What will happen is that the mixture will fizz up in side the kettle - do not do this operation in a position where you could cause damage to your kitchen - or leave the kettle unattended.
When you start, have a Pyrex jug or similar handy - then you can use this to keep the vinegar in if you need to have several stabs that the job. The main advantage of using vinegar is that you can use it to clean the outside of the kettle as well by using a brush and a hot rather than boiling mixture.
If you do this say once a month the kettle will not scale up as bad and it will be quicker next time.

Answer 3

I live in a hard water area. I descaled my kettle with a descaler that i brought in the supermarket every couple of weeks. I just made sure that the descaler was removed by boiling the kettle up a few times. (I think the packet said about 1 time but i did it about 3!). When he was about 5 months i started to use Evian water because it has the low sodium from other bottled water and all other European countries use it from birth. I noticed that my son has been getting so ill since using Evian. Hope it helps x

Answer 4

Put about half a pint of malt vinegar into an empty kettle and boil, then leave it for about half an hour, the lime scale should come away easily. Don't forget to reboil the kettle with fresh water before having a nice cup of tea though!

Answer 5

get a large bottle of cheap vinegar - pour into your kettle and leave for a few hours or overnight for a very badly scaled kettle -

rinse and you will have a shiny clean kettle! It works much better than expensive chemical de-scalers and will not harm you if you accidentally leave a trace of it in your kettle afterwards.

Answer 6

hi all great way to descale your kettle is to get the kettle descale from kleeneze they are only £2.99 for a set of 2 and £3.95 delivery they are amazing and so simple to use perfect for keeping the kettle nice and clean you can get them from here: http://kleeneze.com/products/k/kettle-descalers/

Answer 7

Pour a bottle of white vinegar into a pint of water and boil in your kettle. Rinse thoroughly afterwards.

Answer 8

mix a quater of a pint of vinegar with a quater pint of wter empty into kettle [nomore than one third full] heat kettle then when its boiled leave to stand rinse out and refill with clean water and reboil throw this away and your kettle should be ready for use

Answer 9

White vinegar

Answer 10

Get some descaler from the supermarket. easy to use and cheap.