- Household chemical products
- Means of folk application
- Rules for the prevention of scale:
Most often, hard water flows in our houses, which causes the layering of various salts or metal particles on the internal surfaces of much-needed household appliances. This leads not only to a little aesthetic appearance of kitchen equipment, but also to a less pleasant feeling when using water from it. Therefore, to know how to clean the kettle from scale is necessary for everyone not to harm their health, not to be disgusted with your favorite hot drinks. How exactly this can be done quickly and with minimal time spent, you will learn from this article.
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There are a lot of means in industrial shops - Cinderella, Antinakipin, Calgon, Refine, Selena, Doctor TEN.All this is not a complete list, so it is not difficult for you to choose the right and cost-effective means for you and decide what to clean the kettle from scaling.
Basically, they are all presented in the form of a powder, the application of which is distinguished by its simplicity. It is enough only to fill in the amount of the product specified by the manufacturer in the kettle, add the appropriate volume of water, boil the resulting solution and rinse the household appliances thoroughly with clean running water.
Important! A mandatory condition for the use of all household chemicals is a thorough rinsing of the kettle after cleaning, since these powders contain substances that are not harmless to the human body.
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Unlike chemistry, the descaling agents for home use kettles are not so toxic and if they even enter the human body, they will not cause any health problems. An additional advantage is that they are cheap and are almost always at hand, as they are often used for preparing different dishes.
Citric acid
Clean the kettle from the scale with citric acid as follows:
- Take the citric acid powder.
- Fill the kettle with a solution prepared in the ratio of 10 grams of citric acid granules per 1 liter of water.
- Bring to a boil.
- Leave the hot solution for 30-60 minutes.
- Pour out the liquid.
- Clean the scales with a brush or a clean kitchen sponge.
- Rinse the kettle with clean water.
- If the plaque still remains, repeat the procedure again.
Acetic acid
To clean the kettle from scale with vinegar, this recipe will help:
- Pour into the household appliance ⅔ water and ⅓ vinegar 9%.
- Boil the solution.
- Leave it until the solution has cooled.
- Drain the water.
- Wash with clean water to ensure there is no scale on the walls.
Important! Before further use, you must first boil clean water in it to get rid of the smell of vinegar.
Soda
This method will help to remove the scale from the kettle if it is in a very neglected state:
- Type the almost full volume of the kettle of water.
- Add baking soda at a ratio of 2 tablespoons to 1 liter of water.
- Boil it off.
- Leave it for a while.
- Drain the solution.
- Clean well.
Coca-Cola
You can also remove the scale from the electric kettle and one of the most favorite drinks - Coca-Cola. To do this, you just need to do the standard procedure for using different means:
- Drain all the water from the kettle.
- Completely fill the pot with the kettle.
- Boil it off.
- Leave overnight.
- Drain the liquid.
- Rinse well with water.
- Boil the kettle with clean water, drain it and only after that use the technique for the main purpose - cooking water for hot drinks.
Important! Replace Coca-Cola with another similar drink - Sprite, 7UP, or pickle from cucumbers, tomatoes.
to the table of contents ↑Rules for the prevention of scale:
- Rinse the kettle every day before boiling, clean it from a thin coating with a conventional sponge.
- Use only filtered water to minimize the amount of unnecessary impurities in the liquid.
- Do not leave boiled water for a long time - it is better to drain unwanted residues immediately.
- In order to remove the scale in the kettle, do not wait for the layer to become thick - the less sediment formed, the easier and faster it is to be removed.
Use the above tips and with such a problem as scum you will not have problems. So - you will drink pure water or delicious and fragrant tea or coffee.
