Even if you use very clean, well-filtered water to boil, scale will build up inside the kettle over time. Citric acid will help get rid of it. This food product will perfectly cope with plaque and will not harm your health.
For cleaning, we will buy a large bag (50 g) of the most common citric acid in the store. At home, we will take the kettle, which we will clean, and put the contents of the bag into it. Top up with water at room temperature, stir the contents well with a spoon so that the lemon dissolves a little, and leave for about 2-3 hours. If the scale layer is small, then it is not necessary to boil water in the kettle. Citric acid will very soon begin to interact with deposits and corrode them. After the set time, drain the water and rinse the kettle inside well. Then pour a new portion, put the kettle on the fire and boil it for about 5-10 minutes. Drain the water again and rinse again. Now the kettle inside has become like new, and it can be used for its intended purpose.
If there is quite a lot of scale inside, then we proceed to the second method of purification. To do this, pour citric acid (20-25 g), pour water and add about 100 ml of ordinary 9% table vinegar. Now boil this mixture over low heat for about 10-15 minutes. Drain the water, fill it with a new one and boil again for 10 minutes. We do this manipulation one more time.
If necessary, leave hot water with lemon and vinegar in the kettle overnight. In the morning, drain the water, wash the kettle well inside with a hard sponge and rinse in the same way as in the previous method.
In especially sad cases, if the scale layer is very large or the kettle has been cleaned for a long time, we use the following method. We collect a full kettle of water, add a tablespoon of soda and boil the liquid over medium heat for at least half an hour. Then we drain it, pour a new portion of necessarily cold water and add a tablespoon with a slide of citric acid, boil for 25-30 minutes.
Drain the boiling water, pour water again and add half a glass of ordinary vinegar. Boil again for half an hour. Now, properly wash the kettle inside, not forgetting to first drain the boiling water and rinse the dishes with cold water. Even if in this case the scale has not been removed on its own, we remove it with a metal mesh. After a triple cleaning procedure, the sediment has become friable and can be easily removed. In conclusion, carefully wash the kettle, as indicated in the previous methods. We usually use a fairly concentrated citric acid solution for descaling. In almost hopeless cases, you can even take vinegar essence. But in this situation, we do not boil the water in the kettle, but simply leave it for a while so that the acid solution enters into a natural interaction with the sediment.
If you decide to clean the electric kettle with citric acid, then you should remember one nuance. A concentrated solution of lemongrass can harm its inner surface. Therefore, instead of the prescribed 25-50 grams, we take only 10-15, and then we proceed in the same way as in the methods proposed above.
In order for tea to always be tasty and fragrant, you should not wait until scale appears inside and spoils all tea drinking with an unpleasant aftertaste. Therefore, you should clean the kettle with citric acid regularly.
