it is impossible, you lying

I have had a similar breville kettle for 10 years and it still looks brand new.

​ vinegar will do the job

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.

If you go to Wilko's they sell a granular version of it in their beer making section.

Citric acid or vinegar won't remove our limescale. What you need is this stuff:

http://www.kilrock.co.uk/productDetail.asp?PID=9532&categoryID=1858

works a treat!

Although consider that the pan can also affect the taste and mess up this experiment.
Some pans (I think mostly non-stick ones)
are covered in teflon coating (there are other names for it too I think)
and this synthetic chemical coating contains fluoride in it too
so I suspect it's something that's not safe in the long run to
put in contact (especially at high temperatures) with your food, accelerating the rate of leeching particles onto your food.

So it might also taste bad with a pan.
Although I can't confirm the leeching is so fast that you'll have a weird taste with one
boil....but steel is probably better. (I say probably because I haven't seen evidence of
steel leeching causing problems but I do believe it's not a good idea, but probably somewhat better than leeching aluminium and leeching teflon.)

Just mentioning that in case it's significant in this contexta.
And definitely, plastic tasting water is gross!
Plastic leeching is real and I can't believe the BBC (which I mostly respect)
had a show that said the "plastic leeching into drinks causes cancer" was an "internet hoax".

:confused::confused::confused::confused: (The show was called "Trust Me I'm a Doctor")
Common sense dictates if chemical particulates are leeching into your food,
there will be some hormonal disruption and imbalances which has been linked to cancer and general
lack of health.
I think the BBC are just trying to either protect the plastic industry (for some reason)
or avoid mass panic.....I still trust the publicly funded BBC over some other corporations
but I always question things as even the BBC isn't 100% squeeky clean and honest.
(Not attacking the BBC....just very concerned with how they made such a ridiculous claim that
it was an internet hoax. :/)

​Rainwater and distilled water are not the same chemical composition! Rainwater contains particulate accumulated in the atmosphere.

Can I ask, what do you use to distill the water?

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. :/

Funny, that. I want an opaque one to avoid seeing the limescale.

​I was thinking the same thing living in the south east. :smile: