De-scaling my glass kettle with lemon juice

[greeneyedlulu]

I only use filtered water in my brand new glass kettle and now look at this horror after a couple of weeks. Please advise if boiling lemon juice would really work, I don't think I'm brave enough without some wise words of experience!

I’ve used cut up lemons in my kettle and boiled them in it. It’s not a glass kettle though.

I clean mine with white vinegar - bung in a bottle of it, top it up with water, leave it overnight, boil it in the morning, the empty, rinse and reboil with fresh water a couple of times

Does your coffee or tea taste funny after or is it ok?

I did try to post a picture too, not sure if its there as the app says I can only post 6 images in a day and I have posted any so maybe my app is playing up!

*haven't

malt vinegar, 35p/bottle, works. Works faster if you slightly heat element.
Lemon juice is more expensive so haven't tried it.

Rinse well afterwards.

I boil the lemons that didn’t make it into the gin, or were squeezed.

I then do a few books of just water to take any taste away.

I use citric acid for a normal kettle. Works brilliantly, but not sure how it would turn out for a glass kettle.

I use citric acid too, it works much quicker than vinegar. Can't imagine why it wouldn't work on a glass kettle.

Thanks ladies, i'll get brave tomorrow and tackle it

I use used lemons in my glass kettle all the time.

You only need a small amount of water, put the halved lemons flesh side down and boil a couple of times. Rinse well and wipe away any excess limescale if needed.

Citric acid. Boil kettle - add teaspoon of citric acid. Leave to cool. Use solution to descale coffee maker, iron or whatever. Rinse out sparkling clean kettle and boil a kettleful of water as a final rinse. I do this on the 1st of every month, and even though our water is really hard, our bargain basement kettle looks like new ten years on.