How to remove scale in the kettle

In any kettle, ordinary or electric, sooner or later, scale appears. A grayish-brownish plaque is nothing but the deposition of salts that are present in the water. You can get rid of scale in various ways - choose yourself to taste.

In stores selling household electrical appliances, various means for removing scale are sold. You need to use them, strictly following the attached instructions.

Copper from the kettle can be removed using folk methods. Whatever salt is present in water, they all dissolve with an acidic medium. So it is necessary to remove the scale using a variety of acid-containing preparations. Boil the water in the kettle and after it is turned off right away, poured 2 tablespoons of dry citric acid. Give water to cool down, and if the scale has not allocated all - repeat the procedure.

To remove scale, you can use the conventional white table vinegar by adding a half-table to the kettle with water and boil 10-15 minutes. If the kettle is electric, then after the water in it boiled, you can add 3 tablespoons of acetic essence. After cooling the water, it will certainly be lagging behind the walls.

If there is very thick layer on the walls of the kettle, then it is possible to remove it only in several stages:

First you need to boil the water with two tablespoons of soda per liter of water. Give to stand in a computing tea one hour.
Drain of water with soda, fill the kettle with clean water and add acetic essence (3 tablespoons per 1 liter). Boil and leave the kettle until the waters are completely cooling.
Next, the softened scale can be removed using a wooden flat stick.

With a small scale, potato cleaning perfectly coped with it. The method is only suitable for ordinary teapots, because the kettle is needed to fill the kettle on half and cook them into the kettle with water for at least 30 minutes.

Just like potatoes, acid green apples act on scale. True, with apple skins, the kettle must be boiled several times, every time giving water to completely cool.

And the scale can be removed using Coca-Cola, Phanti and Sprute. To the kettle you need to pour any of these drinks and boil at least half an hour.

No matter how much you get rid of the scale, the kettle after that you need to boil several times with clean water. In order for in the future, it was not so much caught on the walls of the kettle, pour into it the water passed through a household water filter.