How to get rid of the smell of plastic in the kettle

Very often a new plastic kettle, especially if it is a budget option and made in China, has a strong smell of plastic that goes into drinks and affects their quality. Indeed plastic itself is odorless, but the kettle there is a smell of the dye and the plasticizer, which is added in a large quantity, to extend the service life of the kettle. To get rid of the smell, you should use substances that remove odors from any surface.

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You will need

- lemon juice;
- citric acid;
- lemon peel;
- vinegar;
- soda.

Instruction

To remove the kettle from the plastic smell and taste of the drinks, boil kettle, adding natural lemon juice, citric acid bags or peel from the lemon. If you add lemon juice, then squeeze the juice from 3-4 lemons, pour into kettle, add water to the maximum level, boil, leave it for 12 hours, boil again, drain the solution, rinse the kettle with running water. If necessary, repeat the procedure.

To remove the plastic smell with citric acid, fill the kettle with water to the maximum mark, empty the 2 bags of acid of 25 g boil the kettle, leave the water at night, morning again boil the kettle and pour the solution out, rinse the kettle under running water.

If you want to use the rind from the lemons, then fill the kettle half peel, pour water up to maximum level, boil, leave the solution overnight or at least 12 hours, again boil the kettle and all of it remove, rinse under running water.

In addition to these funds, you can use vinegar or vinegar essence. To do this, fill the kettle with water, add 2 tablespoons of 70% acetic essence (or half a Cup of 9% vinegar), heat the kettle, but do not boil, as boiling the solution will come out (a chemical reaction), that is, pour on top of the kettle. Guide the heating several times, empty the solution, rinse the kettle under running water.

Also helps with the plastic smell baking soda. Fill the kettle with water, add 3 tablespoons of baking soda, boil kettle, let cool, boil again, drain the solution, rinse the instrument under running water.

Useful advice

If none of these methods could not defeat the smell of plastic, you just have to change the kettle on a higher quality instrument. For example, kettles, stainless steel, glass odorless and absolutely safe for health, but they are several orders of magnitude more expensive than the Chinese plastic pots, which are materials of doubtful quality and not safe for health.

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