These were from water we just boiled
that’s limescale
Limescale from the tap, or a dirty dish with limescale.
Either way it’s harmless.
This is why water softeners, aka soft water is a thing in many US homes.
The kettle doesn’t have whitish looking residue though. It’s spotty specks of grey that leaves chalky white powder on my finger when I wipe them, is that still limestone?
Yup. It takes a minute for the scale to build up on the metal.
Maybe the kettle has some kind of non-sticking internal surface?
Yes, that sounds like limescale.
And I thought my water was hard. Ha he ho ha ha he he ho
hard water goes hard
mfw I saw the surface of the water right after drinking a full cup from it
Lol. Minerals?
The pot you boiled the water in has fats stuck to the bottom which came unstuck during the boiling.
Could you explain how fats would end up in kettles? Since tap water should be the only thing going in
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What container is the water in? If it is a mixing cup or glass cup, there will likely be residual fats that linger after washing. There are also various grease,s fats, and other lipids in you water pipes, faucets, and the kitchen air since particles linger around. Everything in a kitchen will start to develop a small film of grease if it isn’t cleaned constantly. It’s not harmful and you have been consuming it for literally your entire life
Looks like a glass jar to contain water. Previous tenants could have used them to store literally anything so yeah, residual fats doesn’t sound that surprising now that I think about it.
Maybe I should be paying more attention to the stuff around me instead of only while I’m overseas 🙃
Kitchens can be very greasy places. Do you ever cook food in a pan near your kettle? It could also be from whatever container you poured the hot water in.
It’s a rented apartment, so very likely the previous tenants have cooked near the kettle
Something else I’ve noticed about my own kettle that might be contributing. I store my kettle very near or sometimes just on my stovetop. If you fry anything nearby, even with a wipe down/cleaning you can still get small amounts of fat splatter on enough of the kettle that some of it may be making it’s way into the spout or underside of the lid that then gets mixed in by the steam inside when you boil water next.
Yeah I forgot about oil particles (?) being ever present in kitchens
Should be, but did someone boil milk at some point?
I wouldn’t rule that out, no idea how many tenants came before us. They could have boiled orange juice in them for all I know
Comments you can taste.
Is it a dusty room?
The whole apartment looks pretty clean, but the base of the kettle looked a little funky. Only realised it after drinking a cup of water
Do you know if it’s a hard water area? It may just be calcium.
When you say “funky”, was it a little furry and white? If so, that’s probably calcium deposits (aka “limescale”).
Wow I just learned of Hard Water vs Soft Water. I googled and yeah its a moderately hard Water area. So I assume this is normal (or at least nothing to be alarmed about)?
Yup, completely normal. I have hard water and my kettles get calcium buildup after a handful of uses. Soak with white vinegar to remove the buildup. Or if you’re like me and forget until last second, boil 50/50 vinegar/water and deal with the vinegar smell, lol.
Ahh thank you! Kinda freaked out seeing so much weird stuff on the water’s surface. Out of curiosity would regular consumption of such water have any adverse effects?
Hard water is fine.
I’m guessing your UK, but in America it’s a lot worse and most people need salt exchangers.
Just think of it as “mineral water”.
But I think other people talking about residual fat are probably right. If you have hard water, you’ll notice a white chalky substance on faucets and stuff, or if you leave a glass of water out to evaporate, it’ll leave behind the minerals.
I’m from Singapore, and fortunately the tap water is clean enough that I basically drink straight from the tap.
Damn that’s an experiment I’ll be trying for my stay here! Pretty cool to learn about these stuff
Yo it came back. It looks like this
This looks like a specific kind of… fungus?..aging?. I can’t find an English word for it, but it looks like the black spots you get in clothes when you leave them in a wet pile for too long. In Dutch, is called “spocht”.
I wiped them off with my finger the first time, it looks like chalky white powder.
The next batch of water we boiled looked fine. The batch afterward had this residue again
a lot of the reviews for the kettle I bought on amazon had reviews that complained about this stuff, but we buy filtered water in those refillable 5 gallon jugs and havent had an issue, we have hard water out the tap so i try to avoid using that for cooking, but also I wouldnt trust a used kettle, Id imagine its like the hotel coffee makers where people probably poop in it
Another pictureThat looks suspiciously like Havva…
Hava nice day??
Thanks, you too!
shmegma
I thought putting milk in a kettle was weird enough. Putting unwashed dicks too??
Those are porn bots
