A couple of years back, not long after we moved into Oxley Woods, our kettle blew up. It somehow frazzled itself, it was very old, and sadly, it had to go.
We replaced it with an eco kettle, the Kenwood Energy Sense Kettle to be precise, as it seemed the best of the bunch at the time, especially as I like tea, and tea likes properly boiling water, which many eco water heaters simply don’t do.
Anyway, after a while the boiling plate at the bottom started to look a bit nasty. It’s only limescale, but despite the inline water softener we have in these houses, it builds up quick. Not only does it look unpleasant, it can damage your kettle, and make them less efficient. Sucks doesn’t it.
We’d been bought a book on "green cleaning" and decided to check out what we can do to help the issue, and the solution, it turned out, was simple citric acid, purchased from the local John Lewis store for a few pounds.
We use a little sprinkling of this (it recommends a large dosage of about 1/3 a packet, but we use less every time) about every two or three months, and the results are amazing.
Here’s some before, during, and after photographs of the kettle this week. We left a little longer to highlight how this simple, 20 or so minute operation, can completely reinvigorate your ‘orrible looking, inefficiently running kettle.
Before the cleaning:
Up close and scaly:
Fizzing away:
Citric acid working its wonders:
Ta-da!
Good as new, almost:
