How to clean the teapot from the tea plaque?

People who like traditional tea drinking and prefer to stop using disposable bags, necessarily faced with the problem of how to clean the teapot from the tea plaque. Moreover, it is necessary to clean not only the walls of the dishes from the dark traces of tea, but also the clogged strainer that is inside the modern brewers. In this article we will share the secrets how quickly and efficiently to return the dishes to their former attractiveness and purity.

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Why is it necessary to clean the brewer?

The strainer inside the teapot is very strongly clogged with the pigment that is staining - tannin, which is contained in the tea. Even thorough washing after each brewing helps to cope with the bloom a little. Therefore, brown marks remain on the inner walls and on the nozzle of the kettle. Over time, the strainer stops passing through the tea leaves and requires thorough cleaning, because the holes in it are very clogged.

Of course, you can use an alternative method - use for brewing disposable tea bags. However, the quality of this drink is not high, since for the production of such teas, waste products are usually used, rather than quality leaves of tea trees.

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What can be useful for cleaning?

If the kettle itself is easy to clean, then to return the purity of the strainer is a laborious and complex task.

Before cleaning the teapot inside, prepare one of the following:

• citric acid solution or lemon juice;
• baking soda;

Important! Remember that soda is an abrasive material that can leave small damage on the walls of the kettle and complicate the care of dishes in the future.

• gels and liquids for dishwashing;
• 5 or 8% acetic acid;
• concentrated brine.

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Procedure for the removal of the tea coating

To remove traces of tea from the internal surfaces of the brewer, one of the following ways:

1. Soda. This powder for many decades helped housewives to effectively clean dirty dishes, remove traces of fat and tea from its surfaces.

Important! This tool is not suitable for cleaning the french press, grains of soda will fill small holes in the strainer of the piston, which will create new problems.

1. Kefir. Adherents of this method of removing the tea plaque argue that the glasses and cups, having stood the night filled with milk drink, will become perfectly clean, and the brown coating will completely disappear from their walls.
2. Acetic acid. On the sponge, table vinegar is applied with a strength of no more than 9%, and the dishes are wiped with it. To clean the strainer this method is inconvenient, so a flask with a piston is poured with diluted vinegar, and after a time, just washed under running water.

Important! When working with acetic acid, you should always use personal protective equipment - gloves and a respirator, which will protect your skin and mucous membranes of the respiratory tract from the effects of the active substance.

1. Lemon, lemon juice or sold in packs of citric acid. By efficiency and pleasant aroma, these funds take first place among the methods of removing tea plaque.

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How else can I clean the sieve?

Also one of the following methods will help you get rid of the brownish color of the inner surfaces of the cookware and its accessories.

Cleaning the kettle with ammonia

There is another effective way - dilute ammonia in cold water. To achieve the desired cleaning effect with it, follow the instructions below:

1. Mix 2 tablespoons of ammonia and 100 ml of clean water. Soak the dishes in the resulting solution.
2. Wait 2-3 hours.
3. Clean the brown residue with an old toothbrush.

Cleaning with

saline One of the most effective, proven by many generations, is to clean the teapot from tea spray - use of edible salt:

1. Prepare hot and steep water-salt solution.
2. Take a strainer.
3. Dip into the cleaning compound for 30 minutes - the salt will almost completely eliminate clogging from small cells.
4. Clean the dishes with an old toothbrush or kitchen sponge.

Important! Repeating this procedure, as necessary, helps maintain the ideal purity of your brewer, without applying for this particular effort and without spending a lot of precious time.

Using modern household appliances

There is one more modern way of cleaning utensils from tea plaque, which simply could not have been with our ancestors - washing the brewer with a strainer in the dishwasher.

This method works great, but you can not always use it. In some cases, there are contraindications for washing the strainer in the dishwasher, but the use of table salt can not damage anything.

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How to clean a French press from a tea plaque?

The best solution to the problem of how to wash the jacket off the tea press is to use freshly squeezed lemon juice or citric acid bought in the store. To achieve a qualitative cleaning effect, they must be used according to the following algorithm:

1. Lower the piston to the bottom of the flask.
2. Pour lemon juice into the flask or pour the contents of a small packet of citric acid.
3. Fill in the jacket press with boiling hot water, that its level by a centimeter exceeds the mark of the usual tea brewing.
4. Leave the device in this state for an hour.
5. Flush the flask and flask with running water and wipe dry with a clean cotton cloth.

In this article we have shared with you recommendations how to quickly and efficiently clean the brewer or the french press from the tea plaque, without damaging the inside surface of the dishes. Sincerely we hope that in the future your kitchen equipment will please the eye with perfect purity and attractiveness.