How to clean the kettle from scale

No matter how well we do not purified water, which is boiled in the kettle wall sooner or later, it will still formed scum. It is a completely natural process, as in any drinking water contains a certain amount of salt. Scale not only in the case of boiling distilled water, from which all impurities, but the use of it in food is not recommended to clean. Taste the quality of water, boiled in a kettle with scale, sharply deteriorated. In order to keep the tea clean, follow the recommendations described in this article.

Prevention - the best cure. There is nothing easier than to follow the simple rules of care for tea, and he will always be clean:

using water purified in the filter: the better the cleaning water, the less water will scale during boiling;
after boiling water drain from the kettle: the less water will touch the wall of the kettle - the smaller scale formed on them;
kettle kitchen sponge can be washed often, removing a thin layer of scale without difficulty, do not wait until it becomes thick: the thinner - the easier it is to remove.

Descaling with citric acid:

pour kettle full of water in the water sprinkle sachet 1-2 (25-50 grams) of citric acid;
boil the contents of the kettle, let it simmer for 5-10 minutes and wait until it cools down, it is possible to leave the kettle for the night, while the citric acid will corrode the maximum scale;
drain water rinse kettle, boil water without citric acid, then rinse sponge kettle wall.

Alternative citric acid - vinegar. Operations are the same, only as a corrosive ingredient scum take 100-150 ml of vinegar.

The purification process of the kettle, being in poor condition:

pour water into the kettle, pour it into 1 tablespoon baking soda, bring the water to boiling and simmer for 30 minutes;
drain water with soda, type of pure water and add 1 tablespoon of citric acid, water boil and simmer for a few minutes, let;
drain water with citric acid, and pour 150 ml of pure vinegar, boil for about half an hour, then drain;
wash maker, scale this point will be soft and easy to remove with a sponge or a wooden blade;
to get rid of the smell of vinegar, boil clean water several times, after which the kettle can be used.

From time immemorial, when household chemicals have not come to help the housewife, the scum was removed folk remedies: potato or apple peels, lemon.

The controversial method - boiling the kettle drink Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite. There is an opinion that the acids which are a part of these drinks, while boiling can remove limescale. However, experimentally verify the effectiveness of this method was not possible - after prolonged boiling of the beverage scale layer does not soften and is not removed. It is possible that the method is suitable only for very thin layers of scale.