KitchenCraft Le'Xpress Kettle Descaler Ball, Stainless Steel Wire Limescale Remover

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READ NEXT: Our favourite rapid-boil, quiet and smart kettles How to remove limescale from your kettle Or if you’d prefer a more natural alternative, you can use white vinegar. Just fill your kettle up to the quarter line mark with white vinegar, then top up the kettle to the halfway line with water. Hard water: If you have hard water, you might need to descale your kettle more frequently, around once a month. The higher mineral content in the water leads to faster scale buildup. Strain the lemon rinds out using a cheesecloth or strainer into a glass spray bottle. If you want a weaker cleaning solution, add filtered water to the product after straining. This ensures long life for your electric kettle, and ultimately, it saves you from having to buy a new one ever so often, especially if you live in a hard water area. How To Keep Your Descaler Ball in Good Shape

For example, if you live in a hard water area, you may see more mineral deposits on the walls and bottom of your kettle, compared to a kettle from a soft water region. The minerals responsible for any limescale in your kettle were already present in the water when it was running through your plumbing. So, if you drank the water straight from the tap without boiling it first, the same chemicals causing the limescale problem would still be present, they just wouldn’t be so obvious.As kettles are such an important part of everyday life in the UK, we’d recommend investing in a good kettle for hard water areas even if you have already fitted a water softener. This will allow you to make the most of even basic brews and is arguably a must if you really enjoy hot drinks such as specialty teas and coffees. Best hard-water kettle

All these factors and more will determine how long your kettle will last – but you can do your best to squeeze out at least a few years of use with regular cleaning, and just being careful with it in general. What makes a good hard water kettle? Fill the kettle with a solution made up of equal parts water and vinegar, and let it soak for an hour. Once that’s done, boil it, unplug the kettle, and leave it sitting there for around 20 minutes. Pour it all out, rinse the kettle thoroughly, and you should be good to go. Even though this hard-water kettle only has a 2.2 Kw element, it’s a flat, stainless-steel one which helps it to work very efficiently and in all honesty think very few people are going to notice the difference in speed compared to the higher-powered kettles. The flat element does, however, make this hard-water kettle very easy to clean. Similarly, we think the 1.5-litre capacity will be fine for most households, on that note, even though the printing is in white; the water indicator is nicely legible against the glass body. Over a period of time these deposits build up on the inside of kettles and present themselves as limescale.Our range of descaler products includes speciality kettle limescale remover, washing machine descaler, tap cleaner, surface spray and more. Ensuring that pesky white limescale doesn’t continue to ruin the look of your home’s interior – or the taste of your tea and coffee! What is limescale? Leave the solution to soak for an hour or ideally overnight. Remember to put a sign out so no one drinks from it!