These were from water we just boiled

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    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

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      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”).

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        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)?

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          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.

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          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”.

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            the black spots you get in clothes when you leave them in a wet pile for too long

            We call that mold or mildew.

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            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

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              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