Was about to buy this Kettle from Tesco as it had really good reviews, and is quite cheap for a clear one. However they have now added a £2.00 click +collect fee. So searched elsewhere and found it even cheaper delivered!
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leewills8
26 Feb 161#1
Limescale
Dragon32 to leewills8
26 Feb 16#3
I was thinking the same thing living in the south east. :smile:
goonertillidie
26 Feb 161#2
You'll also get £2.85 back in points atm :smiley:
Fredi1428
26 Feb 16#4
This is one of the reasons I actually wanted a clear one....so I can see when it needs cleaning haha
I'd rather see it and clean it, than look into my old kettle and see what's lurking in there *bleck*
solid to Fredi1428
26 Feb 16#10
Funny, that. I want an opaque one to avoid seeing the limescale.
busymother
26 Feb 16#5
Great kettle and not bad price.
If you are using tap water (brita filters do not remoce flouride) it will look dirty after few times you boil water.
Me and few of my friend families drink distilled water for 3+ years. We all admittedly feel better and healthier.
Dispike what they say, its does not hold truth. Rain water is same 100% distilled water.
leewills8 to busymother
26 Feb 162#8
Rainwater and distilled water are not the same chemical composition! Rainwater contains particulate accumulated in the atmosphere.
bigal22 to busymother
26 Feb 16#9
Can I ask, what do you use to distill the water?
theTrueFocus11 to busymother
26 Feb 161#21
I find this interesting because I've wondered about this topic.
Some claim distilled water is bad in large quantities/frequent use because it "leeches ions from the body"
but even if that's true....wouldn't that be a good thing, since I don't think inorganic ions are usually that good for you anyway. (I might be wrong, but I think most are not needed by the body although organic vs inorganic is probably oversimplified....I may have to ask a few toxicology experts).
And also the possibility that distilled water and rain are safe because well....evolution.
I'd think most humans and their descendants were drinking rain water for many thousands or millions of years.
The difference between very good distilled water (maybe not 100% but virtually pure)
and rain water is that rain water has more impurities like soot and CO2 from the surrounding air.
But I do know that mineral ions from water are not necessary because
we get probably a better form of those ions from vegetables.
Although I guess there's the counter argument that organisms have drunk water from
streaming over and through rocks....thus possibly evolved with inorganic ion rich water. (Although
we can't be certain with anything in evolution since it's A) pretty complicated and B) we don't have enough information on
how much evolution occurred, proportions of beneficial mutations in each condition, etc.)
Eh....I don't know all the answers but I'm intrigued and do think
distilled water is healthy but I'm not 100% sure on this so can't confirm.
And yeah, fluoride is a neurotoxin that reduces your IQ, is a waste product of the aluminium industry,
is in rat poisons, causes fluorosis of the skeleton or at least the teeth in great concentrations, and I think calcifies the.pineal gland in the brain.
Darn, I recently bought a steel kettle (not as bad as leeching plastic but still probably leeches iron,
chromium and nickel....don't know how detrimental this is or at what rate leeching occurs)
and now I wish I bought a glass one.
But the main things stopping me is the fear of cracking and shattering the darn thing,
causing injury. And I can't see the bottom of the inside of the kettle....I can't tell if this kettle has
glass or something else at the bottom.
Also I wouldn't know if this kettle's glass is normal glass or reinforced with lead.
(Lead glass like those in posh crystal glasses, wine glasses and decanters that kings have
suffered diseases from because they left their beverages too long in them for display purposes and drank the highly
lead contaminated drink inside....because leeching over a long time will really increase the number of lead particles leeched into the drink.)
Anyway, what things have you noticed from drinking distilled water for 3 years?
Are you sure the benefits are real or just placebo effects?
Does it do anything for arthritis or cracking joints?
I'm wondering if calcification of fluorosis of the skeleton contributes to the cracking
noise. (I don't believe the noise is 100% only from nitrogen gas escaping cavities....I feel there is real
damage when you crack your knuckles for example.)
Although some crack sounds I hear, are the result of an action that feels like
my muscle strands are snapping. (Weird feeling, and not as painful as really tearing your muscle fibres.
But I'm just subjectively describing what it feels like.)
Like cartilage and muscle and bone are somehow involved. :/
willysnapper
26 Feb 16#6
I bought the Russell Hobbs glass kettle just before Christmas and have been well pleased with it.
Limescale is fortunately something that we who drink from Gods own Spring (from the Lake District) rarely experience!
In preparation for the outside chance of it, I tried to buy citric acid which would remove it.
Asked several chemists and was treated with great suspicion until I explained the reason but still unable to find any supplies, apparently it's also used to "cut" drugs with! :confused:
seagoon to willysnapper
26 Feb 161#11
vinegar will do the job
paulandpam1 to willysnapper
26 Feb 16#16
Any home brew shop will have ample supplies of citric acid for sale plus Wilkinson's sell small tubs f it in their home brew department.
poshbird1000 to willysnapper
27 Feb 16#24
If you go to Wilko's they sell a granular version of it in their beer making section.
Stompa to willysnapper
27 Feb 16#29
Citric acid or vinegar won't remove our limescale. What you need is this stuff:
i use a kettle of the same design and mine's ok without any filtered water. But a few pointers...............
dont 'pour' the water until the majority of bubbles have stopped (boiling) around 10 seconds after the kettle powers off.
Keep a stash of 'oust' in the cupboard. The metal in contact with the element in the bottom of the water container does start to build up so i clean mine with oust once a month.
busymotherz
26 Feb 16#12
Water distiller, check on ebay.
Works out a little cheaper than buy cheapest botteled water, plus you know what you are drinking... or rather what not :smiley:
We have used fresh mountain water first, which is full of goodies, calcium and other stuff. And you can clearly see when you are boiling (distill) water which contains good stuff, which is full of chemicals and rust. Whenever it is left fom fresh water is very easy to clean and it is briliant white. While tap water its just dirty, sticky stuff.
brooky_agn
26 Feb 16#13
Likewise we don't have much water in our lime in Hertfordshire.
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I'd rather see it and clean it, than look into my old kettle and see what's lurking in there *bleck*
If you are using tap water (brita filters do not remoce flouride) it will look dirty after few times you boil water.
Me and few of my friend families drink distilled water for 3+ years. We all admittedly feel better and healthier.
Dispike what they say, its does not hold truth. Rain water is same 100% distilled water.
Some claim distilled water is bad in large quantities/frequent use because it "leeches ions from the body"
but even if that's true....wouldn't that be a good thing, since I don't think inorganic ions are usually that good for you anyway. (I might be wrong, but I think most are not needed by the body although organic vs inorganic is probably oversimplified....I may have to ask a few toxicology experts).
And also the possibility that distilled water and rain are safe because well....evolution.
I'd think most humans and their descendants were drinking rain water for many thousands or millions of years.
The difference between very good distilled water (maybe not 100% but virtually pure)
and rain water is that rain water has more impurities like soot and CO2 from the surrounding air.
But I do know that mineral ions from water are not necessary because
we get probably a better form of those ions from vegetables.
Although I guess there's the counter argument that organisms have drunk water from
streaming over and through rocks....thus possibly evolved with inorganic ion rich water. (Although
we can't be certain with anything in evolution since it's A) pretty complicated and B) we don't have enough information on
how much evolution occurred, proportions of beneficial mutations in each condition, etc.)
Eh....I don't know all the answers but I'm intrigued and do think
distilled water is healthy but I'm not 100% sure on this so can't confirm.
And yeah, fluoride is a neurotoxin that reduces your IQ, is a waste product of the aluminium industry,
is in rat poisons, causes fluorosis of the skeleton or at least the teeth in great concentrations, and I think calcifies the.pineal gland in the brain.
Darn, I recently bought a steel kettle (not as bad as leeching plastic but still probably leeches iron,
chromium and nickel....don't know how detrimental this is or at what rate leeching occurs)
and now I wish I bought a glass one.
But the main things stopping me is the fear of cracking and shattering the darn thing,
causing injury. And I can't see the bottom of the inside of the kettle....I can't tell if this kettle has
glass or something else at the bottom.
Also I wouldn't know if this kettle's glass is normal glass or reinforced with lead.
(Lead glass like those in posh crystal glasses, wine glasses and decanters that kings have
suffered diseases from because they left their beverages too long in them for display purposes and drank the highly
lead contaminated drink inside....because leeching over a long time will really increase the number of lead particles leeched into the drink.)
Anyway, what things have you noticed from drinking distilled water for 3 years?
Are you sure the benefits are real or just placebo effects?
Does it do anything for arthritis or cracking joints?
I'm wondering if calcification of fluorosis of the skeleton contributes to the cracking
noise. (I don't believe the noise is 100% only from nitrogen gas escaping cavities....I feel there is real
damage when you crack your knuckles for example.)
Although some crack sounds I hear, are the result of an action that feels like
my muscle strands are snapping. (Weird feeling, and not as painful as really tearing your muscle fibres.
But I'm just subjectively describing what it feels like.)
Like cartilage and muscle and bone are somehow involved. :/
Limescale is fortunately something that we who drink from Gods own Spring (from the Lake District) rarely experience!
In preparation for the outside chance of it, I tried to buy citric acid which would remove it.
Asked several chemists and was treated with great suspicion until I explained the reason but still unable to find any supplies, apparently it's also used to "cut" drugs with! :confused:
http://www.kilrock.co.uk/productDetail.asp?PID=9532&categoryID=1858
works a treat!
dont 'pour' the water until the majority of bubbles have stopped (boiling) around 10 seconds after the kettle powers off.
Keep a stash of 'oust' in the cupboard. The metal in contact with the element in the bottom of the water container does start to build up so i clean mine with oust once a month.
Works out a little cheaper than buy cheapest botteled water, plus you know what you are drinking... or rather what not :smiley:
We have used fresh mountain water first, which is full of goodies, calcium and other stuff. And you can clearly see when you are boiling (distill) water which contains good stuff, which is full of chemicals and rust. Whenever it is left fom fresh water is very easy to clean and it is briliant white. While tap water its just dirty, sticky stuff.