New kettle taste

anguk

My old faithful kettle gave up on me so I bought a new one yesterday but I can't get rid of the plastic taste in my tea. I've boiled it at least a dozen times with fresh water and even boiled it a couple of times with a tablespoon of bicarb in it but the plastic taste is still there, I've resorted to boiling water in a pan just so I can have a nice cuppa.

If it continues I'll take the kettle back but I won't be able to get back to the shop until next week so has anyone got any ideas of how to "break in" a new kettle?

Butterfly_Brain

I always use bicarb - the trick is to boil the kettle with the bicarb and leave it for a good couple of hours to allow the bicarb to absorb the nasties, then empty and boil up a couple of kettles of water that should do the trick

ubamother

for plastic foodboxes, popping in the freezer overnight does the trick - could you wrap the kettle up so it's watertight and pop it in?

anguk

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I always use bicarb - the trick is to boil the kettle with the bicarb and leave it for a good couple of hours to allow the bicarb to absorb the nasties, then empty and boil up a couple of kettles of water that should do the trick

I poured the bicarb water straight out after I'd boiled it so I'll try it again and leave it for a couple of hours this afternoon.

I really don't want to take the kettle back to the shop because it's a nice quick boiler with built-in water filter and I got it half price in the sale!