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These were from water we just boiled

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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 1 year ago
[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe the kettle has some kind of non-sticking internal surface?

Yes, that sounds like limescale.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

And I thought my water was hard. Ha he ho ha ha he he ho

[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

hard water goes hard

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago
[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

mfw I saw the surface of the water right after drinking a full cup from it

[-] SandboxScience@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Lol. Minerals?

[-] zzpza@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] zzpza@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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").

[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yo it came back. It looks like this

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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".

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

We call that mold or mildew.

[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] variants@possumpat.io 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is way better than the poop guy

[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I don't wanna know what that is but part of me is aching to know

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Those are porn bots

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