Cleaning a stainless steel tea kettle?

[Anonymous]

I have a shiny SS stovetop tea kettle that I want to clean, but it has almost burnt on splatters that nothing will remove. I’ve tried cleaners, magic eraser, etc.

Any other ideas before I give up?

[Anonymous]

Brillo pad?

[Anonymous]

Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

[Anonymous]

Agreed with trying barkeeper's friend - try the liquid version first. It has cleaned rust off of my stainless appliances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

NP but once we switched to an electric kettle, there was no way we were going back. It's so much faster. Get one of the glass ones so your husband can actually see the water boiling. Ours is Mueller, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

NP but once we switched to an electric kettle, there was no way we were going back. It's so much faster. Get one of the glass ones so your husband can actually see the water boiling. Ours is Mueller, I think.

How fast are we talking? I think this may convince him. As it stands, our kettle boils pretty quickly on our gas stove, so it might be a hard sell.

[Anonymous]

If your husband is so attached to the kettle, why don’t you dump this problem in his lap?

[Anonymous]

Second the electric kettle, it boils in a minute or two. We have one in the kitchen for general purpose use, and a glass one with temperature settings in my office for my tea. I use the kitchen one to, eg, start water heating faster when making pasta on the stove.

[Anonymous]

Electric stovetop owner who LOVES 💗 her electric kettle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

I find that interesting, because stovetop kettles are not so popular in the UK anymore - electric kettles are the thing, at least my UK friends told me so and they are the ones who turned me on to an electric kettle. My stovetop kettle has been donated to the thrift store.

My kettle is this brand: https://www.aicookhome.com/products/aicook-electric-tea-kettle8041-yy

The base on mine looks different because I got it in 2020, it was my pandemic thing - I got big into tea and discovered both the programmable kettle and Harney's tea which is terrific, haven't had a bad variety yet.

On the boil setting for black and herbal teas, the boil is very much a boil - I watch it roiling very vigorously through the clear glass and it is a much better rolling boil than I can even get when boiling pasta water on the stovetop in my le creuset. And, the boil comes much quicker than it did for me on stovetop - but I do have electric rather than gas burners.

What is terrific about the kettle is the preprogrammed settings. I didn't even realize until I took the tea journey how other kinds of tea are ruined by steeping in boiling water - green and white and oolong all require a lower heat for optimal steep. The kettle also has a timer that assists you in steeping for the proper length of time - black teas require five minutes, but other teas steep more quickly.

I honestly love my electric tea kettle, I now drink tea daily (although it has a coffee setting too, I hardly use it) and make several pots of tea for iced tea every week. (Tip for making iced tea - don't put it into the fridge until it comes to room temperature, that prevents it from getting cloudy.)

Anyway best purchase I've made in a long time. You can get cheaper ones and much more expensive ones, but I definitely think it's an appliance any tea lover should own and use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

I find that interesting, because stovetop kettles are not so popular in the UK anymore - electric kettles are the thing, at least my UK friends told me so and they are the ones who turned me on to an electric kettle. My stovetop kettle has been donated to the thrift store.

My kettle is this brand: https://www.aicookhome.com/products/aicook-electric-tea-kettle8041-yy

The base on mine looks different because I got it in 2020, it was my pandemic thing - I got big into tea and discovered both the programmable kettle and Harney's tea which is terrific, haven't had a bad variety yet.

On the boil setting for black and herbal teas, the boil is very much a boil - I watch it roiling very vigorously through the clear glass and it is a much better rolling boil than I can even get when boiling pasta water on the stovetop in my le creuset. And, the boil comes much quicker than it did for me on stovetop - but I do have electric rather than gas burners.

What is terrific about the kettle is the preprogrammed settings. I didn't even realize until I took the tea journey how other kinds of tea are ruined by steeping in boiling water - green and white and oolong all require a lower heat for optimal steep. The kettle also has a timer that assists you in steeping for the proper length of time - black teas require five minutes, but other teas steep more quickly.

I honestly love my electric tea kettle, I now drink tea daily (although it has a coffee setting too, I hardly use it) and make several pots of tea for iced tea every week. (Tip for making iced tea - don't put it into the fridge until it comes to room temperature, that prevents it from getting cloudy.)

Anyway best purchase I've made in a long time. You can get cheaper ones and much more expensive ones, but I definitely think it's an appliance any tea lover should own and use.

Thank you so much for this write up!

And yes, he’s very old school. He was raised by his poor grandmother who made tea this way and he insists it’s the only way. I believe it could be sentimentality over practicality, but who knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Barkeeper's Friend and if that doesn't work, toss it on the recycle pile.

Stovetop kettles are hugely inefficient anyway; if you're really using one for tea you should ditch it and get an electric kettle with pre-programmed temperature settings for green, white, oolong, black and herbal teas. It will transform your experience of tea drinking.

Tell me more, if you wouldn’t mind!

DH is British and insists on using a stove top tea kettle. He doesn’t think he will get a good boil from an electric kettle. I would love to ditch this clunky thing!

NP but once we switched to an electric kettle, there was no way we were going back. It's so much faster. Get one of the glass ones so your husband can actually see the water boiling. Ours is Mueller, I think.

How fast are we talking? I think this may convince him. As it stands, our kettle boils pretty quickly on our gas stove, so it might be a hard sell.

Faster than a kettle on a gas stove, in my experience! Honestly, try it, it's like $20

[Anonymous]

if barkeepers friend doesn’t work, then try a dobie scrubber gently with a paste made of (water plus baking soda).

[Anonymous]

All my British and Irish family use electric kettles. We have one at our home here in the US as well.