Cleaning Kettles | Our 3 Best Tips To Make Your Kettle Like New

There is a good chance that you use various aids in your kitchen. Most modern homes are, at least, equipped with a microwave and a kettle. All to make the hectic everyday life easier.

One could probably live without these, but honestly – who wants to spend their valuable time waiting for the water to boil in the saucepan? Thanks to a good kettle, cooking goes so much faster.

Moreover, it can be used for cleaning purposes, for example to dissolve dirt in the drain with the help of boiling water.

In other words, the kettle has many uses. But when did you last clean your kettle? Many mistakenly believe that since a kettle only contains clean water, no cleaning is needed. Unfortunately, it is not that simple.

The truth is that all water contains more or less limescale. Sooner or later, limescale deposits will form inside your kettle, and then it can be good to know how to clean it. With our smart tips, it can be done in no time! Follow along!

If you instead want to know more about how to clean your coffee maker, we have prepared a guide on cleaning the coffee maker with vinegar here.

Why spend time on something as boring as cleaning the kettle?

The kettle is often used daily, and depending on where you live in the country, it takes longer or shorter before limescale deposits appear inside the kettle.

Many wait until it has gone too far and discover that it is time to clean the kettle when they find small white pieces of limescale in the tea water. Surely that doesn’t feel very fresh?

Fortunately, it actually takes little time to get it clean again.

Internal cleaning – kettle cleaned quickly and easily

Since we often use the kettle in cooking, it can be nice to use natural products when cleaning it inside.

Do you have half a lemon left over? Perfect, you can use this to clean the kettle. How do you do it then?

Fill the kettle with water and a few lemon slices. Boil and then let it stand for 2-3 hours before rinsing out the jug. Refill the kettle, this time only with water. Let it boil. Easy, right?!

If you don’t have any lemon at home, it is also fine to use citric acid. Here you can read our tips on how to clean the kettle with citric acid.

Vinegar is another natural product that can be used to clean kettles. Again, the watchwords are fast and simple. Compared to lemon and citric acid, this method may seem more effective because vinegar smells quite strong, but it really just depends on personal preference.

To clean the kettle with vinegar, just pour 100 ml of vinegar into the kettle and then fill up with water. Boil and let it stand for an hour. Rinse the jug, fill with clean water, and let it boil. Repeat 2-3 times. Don’t worry if the smell of vinegar lingers after rinsing – it usually disappears by itself soon.

Don’t forget to clean the outside of the kettle

Dust usually accumulates here, but if the kettle stands near the stove, it can also have grease stains on it.

The easiest way to clean the kettle externally is to mix 100 ml of water with a few drops of hand dish soap. Then scrub the kettle with a cleaning sponge. Depending on how long it has been since the kettle was last cleaned, you may need to repeat this a few times. Wipe with a clean microfiber cloth to avoid ugly water stains.

There, now your kettle should look like new again! If you don’t want to spend more time cleaning the kettle than necessary, we recommend trying to make it a habit not to leave old water in the kettle. Boil the amount of water you need and then empty the kettle.

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