I boiled milk in my kettle...help?

[Kalah]

Yeah, genius idea right
So the milk left the bottom of the kettle black and it kept smoking so I filled it with cold water to cool it down then cleaned the black stuff off with steel wool. I think I've got it all cleaned out but there might be some bits of black in the cracks that I can't see. Do you think it's still safe to use?

In case you're wondering why I thought boiling milk in a kettle would be a good idea it's because I wanted to heat it up quickly and don't own or want to own a microwave, the idea of how microwaves work just creeps me out Think I'll use a sauce pan next time..

 

[leahsbabybump]

lol this made me smile i would just fill it up and boil then empty and repeat a few times i would have thought that the boiling water would kill any germs you can buy kettle cleaning stuff from wilkos and such shops aswell x

 

[beccybobeccy]

OMG... sorry honey but I have to chuckle.

I have never heard of that before. If it was me I'd buy a new kettle.

 

[Kalah]

We've had this one for less than a month too so if I tell OH what I've done he'll go on about it for weeks and I might end up hitting him with the kettle and need a new one lol!

 

[Laura80]

I don't know if it will work for milk, but when I want to clean the limescale off my kettle I put in equal amounts of white vinegar and water and leave it to soak overnight. Just make sure you rinse it really well in the morning.

 

[holidaysan]

LMAO lol. Your not the only one whos tried this haha. If you give it a good clean out then it will work fine x

 

[Angela49uk]

What on earth made you think to do that?! Made my day though

 

[Kalah]

What on earth made you think to do that?! Made my day though

Well I've been giving Kili cows milk mixed in with her formula milk and I'm slowly making it more and more cows milk. I was doing half milk half formula so just adding equal parts boiling water and cold milk made it the perfect temperature. But now it's more like 3/4 cows milk 1/4 boiling water & formula powder so it's not quite warm enough and she doesn't really like it anything less than hot. Since we don't have a microwave I was trying to think of how to quickly heat the milk so the kettle seemed like a good idea! Well after I made a mess of the kettle with the milk I had to boil the water for my own coffee in a pan on the stove and by doing that I realized it doesn't actually take very long to boil like that, so I suppose I'll go ahead and just do that for the milk!
I had never ever boiled milk before so I had no idea it would do anything like that!

 

[Ju_bubbs]

I'm not sure how it would work in a kettle.. but if you burn something to the bottom of a saucepan, you can just cover the bottom of the pan with cola, and boil for a few mins, and all the burnt stuff just lifts off! Could be worth a try!

 

[SRTBaby]

try vinegar, it does a good job with calcium build hup.

 

[Kalah]

I've used it again and it seems to work fine, the steam from the water has a weird smell though so I think I'll try cleaning it out with vinegar in the morning!

 

[holidaysan]

The smell will fade out hun. Mine lasted about a week x

 

[Kalah]

The smell will fade out hun. Mine lasted about a week x

That's good to know, glad I'm not the only one who thought milk in a kettle might be a good idea!

 

[emilyjade]

this did make me chuckle hope youve got it sorted now!

 

[holidaysan]

The smell will fade out hun. Mine lasted about a week x

That's good to know, glad I'm not the only one who thought milk in a kettle might be a good idea!

Its seemed like a clever idea at 1st lol!

 

[Rachel_C]

You could try lemon juice if you don't have/don't fancy vinegar. Make it about 50% water, 50% lemon juice, boil it, leave it to cool then clean it out. After you've rinsed it, boil it a couple of times with fresh water until it smells clean.

 

[Kalah]

The smell will fade out hun. Mine lasted about a week x

That's good to know, glad I'm not the only one who thought milk in a kettle might be a good idea!

Its seemed like a clever idea at 1st lol!

Yeah it really did! It wasn't until it actually started to boil and shut off and a bunch of smoke was coming out and I noticed the weird smell that I realized it might not have been such a good idea. My suspicion was confirmed when I poured out the milk and it kept smoking and I saw the blackened bottom. I suddenly felt REALLY silly!

 

[Feemee]

That's fantastic made my day lol. Would it not work to leave it a min and not let it boil? hope it's sorted! Xx

 

[Kalah]

That's fantastic made my day lol. Would it not work to leave it a min and not let it boil? hope it's sorted! Xx

That probably would have been better yes It boiled really fast though not more than 20 seconds, I only had a few ounces of milk in the big giant kettle so that was probably my second mistake. I heated milk in a pan this morning and that seemed to work much better, it takes as long to heat up as it takes for me to make my coffee so that's perfect timing! =)

 

[BabyBoo36]

If it makes you feel better, my brother once tried to boil 2 eggs using the kettle cos he couldn't be bothered getting a pan. It was very, very, very messy.......