It was easy. I finally got some vinegar and filled it up and let the kettle sit overnight. Rinsed it and gave it a wipe with a wad of paper towel and the scale and residue from the scale is all gone.
Shoulda done it earlier. The wasted psychic energy, every time I peered in and saw the scale…
Our water is so hard here I periodically take the kettle into the shop when it doesn’t boil water very quick, and use the needle scaler on it to knock big slabs of scale out of it.
I keep a box of citric acid crystals around for this and the coffee pot/espresso machine. It descales as well as vinegar (for the kettle I just put a few scoops in and boil with water) and there’s no aftertaste/smell like there is with vinegar.
I use lemon juice in the coffee machine every 6 mo or so for samesies.
I mix half water half vinegar and boil it. Then I don’t need to wait overnight. Also boil a few full kettles of clean water to remove the vinegar taste.
Vinegar! I knew I’d forgotten something just now at the shop. Our water is quite calcareous, so I add a little every load of dishes. Once bought 20 litres of it online, gave the courier a bit of a laugh.
I showed my mom what white vinegar can do to limescale.
My parents live in South Africa so limescale isn’t a major issue, but some builds up in kettles over time.
So I told her about vinegar, put some in the kettle and you could basically see it dissolving and breaking up in real time.
I learned the word lime scale today.
Scale… Someone in the past must have thought, let’s just use one word for all the meanings. (You have to save wherever possible.): Scale in the cambridge dictionary
