How to clean the kettle from rust?

Water from the central water supply is far from ideal and contains many impurities, including iron - this fact cannot be refuted today. A clear proof of this is the appearance of an unpleasant brown deposit on the inside of your kettle. In this article we will tell you how to clean the kettle from rust at home, while spending a minimum amount of time and effort.

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Useful Tips

On the Internet and at home you can find many recommendations on how to clean the electric kettle from rust inside, but not all of them help to achieve the desired result and are safe for the device and for your health.

Among the restrictions, one can distinguish such rules as to using which methods in no case can you clean such household appliances:

1. Mechanical cleaning methods, in particular scraping of scale and rust with a metal washcloth or sandpaper. Such cleaning measures are likely to damage the inside of the kettle, but will not bring a positive result.
2. Poor methods of cleaning with brine or potato peelings are also ineffective. This way you only spend your nerves and precious time. These tools will only help to remove scale, but a solid coating of rust - no.
3. You will not get much benefit from the use of aggressive acid formulations based on hydrochloric or sulfuric. These substances are very likely to damage the inner coating and leave an unpleasant aftertaste, which can lead to great health problems. They can be used exclusively for really durable and high-quality materials at the base of the kettle, and after such cleaning, thorough washing of the device inside with a large amount of running water is necessary. The first couple of servings of boiled water is also desirable to send to the sink, and not used to make drinks.
4. In order not to have to look for ways to clean the kettle from rust inside, try to prevent the occurrence of such a nuisance. To prevent the occurrence of unpleasant raids, exclusively filtered water should be boiled, which has been preliminarily purified from metal and other impurities. Also try not to leave liquid in the kettle after preparing hot drinks.

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What is the danger of rust?

The appearance of unpleasant limescale and rust on the inner surfaces of the kettle, as well as the heating coil of electrical appliances, threatens the following unpleasant consequences:

• water will heat up longer, which entails excessive consumption of gas or electricity;
• metal salts deposited on the walls of the kitchen appliance when re-boiling water get into the liquid, and, accordingly, our body, which threatens with serious diseases;
• prepared drinks may have an unpleasant aftertaste.

Important! To avoid the appearance of unpleasant deposits on the inside of your kettle, try to wash the appliance thoroughly and dry it with a clean towel after each use.

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How to clean the kettle from rust?

If you find an unpleasant plaque inside the kettle, then the following remedies will help to clean it:

• lemon acid;
• vinegar;
• carbonated drink;
• spoiled milk.
  

These improvised tools have a fairly high efficiency, if you need to clean the kettle from rust and are easily found in almost every kitchen. You just have to choose the most suitable option and adhere to the following recommendations:

Lemon acid

This method of cleaning dishes from rust has been used for more than a century and is passed from generation to generation between housewives. To achieve the most effective result, get 1 sachet of citric acid and use it as follows:

1. Pour citric acid into the kettle.
2. We fill the container with cold water.
3. We boil the resulting solution for 10-15 minutes.
4. We merge the water with particles of the plaque that is behind the walls of the kettle.
5. Rinse the vessel thoroughly with clean water.

Important! If you cannot use citric acid powder, you can replace it with freshly squeezed lemon juice. In order for the citrus fruit to give its juice better, it should be doused with boiling water.

Carbonated drink

It would seem that the sweet carbonated drink, which is useless in the household, is well-known to all the well-known brands Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta, in fact, has very strong cleaning properties. It is with the help of these compounds that you can clean the kettle from rust, for which you should adhere to the following recommendations:

1. Fill the kettle with a drink so that the liquid covers the areas damaged by rust.
2. Leave the vessel in this condition overnight.
3. In the morning, using a kitchen sponge, carefully remove any residue from the walls of the kettle. You can pre-boil the drink in the kettle.
4. Rinse the dishes thoroughly under clean, running water.

Important! For cleaning teapots with an internal white coating, it is preferable to use the “Sprite” or “7-UP” drink, which have a minimum of dyes, and, accordingly, will not leave marks on the walls of the vessel.

Acetic acid

To clean the interior of the kettle from traces of rust, 9% table vinegar is also useful, which should be used as follows:

1. In the evening on ⅔ fill the kettle with water and boil the liquid.
2. Fill the remaining volume of the vessel with acetic acid.
3. Leave the kettle with the resulting solution overnight.
4. In the morning, pour out water with loose rust and scale particles.
5. Rinse the kettle thoroughly under running water.

Important! If you encounter stubborn rust, you can repeat the cleaning process several times. To achieve a better result, you can add a small amount of soda to the composition.

Spoiled milk

You can also clean the traces of rust on the walls of the kettle with sour homemade milk. To achieve the desired result, use this product as follows:

1. Fill a third of the kettle with sour milk.
2. Boil the contents of the vessel.
3. Use a kitchen sponge to clean the dirt - traces of rust should be removed fairly easily.
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In this article, we shared with you effective and fairly simple ways how to clean the kettle from rust inside, and sincerely hope that from now on you will not have problems with caring for your kitchen utensils.