Oil in kettle!!! Help please.

chalky_75

Help!!!

Has anyone got any ideas how to solve a bit of a disaster!
I have not been able to life the kettle full of water so I have been using a measuring jug to top up the kettle. All fine ....... Until I made some bread and measured some vegetable oil in the measuring jug. I then obviously topped the kettle up before I washed the jug!!!!!
You can see it can't you?
The boiled water has a film of oil over it and the drinks taste foul.
We have washed the electric kettle carefully with washing up liquid inside. We have boiled it with washing up liquid. We have washed it with vinegar and boiled it with vinegar . So far no luck. As soon as you boil the kettle you can smell the deposit of oil and it is forming a scum on the tea.
The kettle is only a few months old and was an expensive one.
Has anyone got any ideas please???

Thank you.

Uniscots97

If you put water in the kettle and let it sit does the oil settle to the top of the water line? If so get some kitchen roll and dip it into the water this should absorb the oil. You may have to do it a few times.

Badrick

WARNING, don't try this if any internal part of kettle OR saucepan are aluminium.
If you have a dishwasher (or know someone who does), measure a kettle full to maximum of water and pour along with a quarter of a dishwasher tablet into a saucepan.
Bring to near boil, watching in case it boils over, ensuring tablet has dissolved
Carefully pour into kettle over sink and leave to cool, if you can stir water a couple of times, so much the better.
When cool, discard water and rinse thoroughly.
You may wish to boil a kettle full of clean water before using.

Fruball

Get a good descaler too as some of the oil/flavour will have stuck/absorbed into the limescale.

Good luck

theoretica

Is the kettle easy to wash all of it? If it has a scale guard or something could that be acting as an oil reservoir to contaminate your water as you pour?

If you keep on at it eventually it must run out of oil!

vanoonoo

is it possible to claim accidental damage on house insurance or not worth the excess? not very old style I know but last resort if nothing else works?

booter

I'd agree with all of the above suggestions (except claiming on the house insurance - sorry vanoonoo, it's just cheaper to buy a new kettle!) My contribution to the suggestions being bio laundry liquid/powder, either cool or boiled - it dissolves grease. Or good old washing soda (soda crystals) (I use it everywhere!)

However, it might be that you can taste/smell residue from whatever you're cleaning it with (you certainly would with washing and laundry liquid). Whatever you use, you will need to rinse/boil, and rinse/boil......ad nauseum. Be persistant and I'm sure you'll get it in the end In the meantime, boil water on the hob so you can at least have a cuppa! Good luck!

vanoonoo

yeah I agree generally! i just figured as OP said it was expensive, if it's a dualit or something like that it might be worth it!