How can I de-scale my kettle?

[tryingtosortmylifeout]

I live in a hard water area, and my kettle has a bad case of limescale. I read that vinegar is a good way to get rid of it, but should I be using white vinegar or just the brown stuff I put on my chips?

I use 2 lemon quarters and boil it several times over a couple of hours, comes up nice and shiny and new.

@PotteringAlong Excuse my ignorance, but do you need to boil the cola?

I once followed some advice online about this. It involved baking powder or no, bicarbonate of soda (same things?). I may have read or done it incorrectly but it was a shocker - frothy white foam exploding from kettle. Kettle a write-off. Still scaly. Kitchen needed quite o bit of cleaning. De-scaling a kettle has become a phobia of mine. Feel I might try this thread’s suggestions - would actually need to pluck up courage now.

There is absolutely no need to boil the vinegar. It’s an acid and will dissolve the limescale without the need for heat.

@HeronLanyan I have images of a rabid kettle now 😂

Not far wrong! Made worse by fact I seem to remember it not really needing it - a bit of a whim fancy which took hild for no reason. Mega fail.