My tea kettle is brown on the inside and paint chips are floating in the water. Advice?

Do I have to throw it away or is there a way to clean it?My tea kettle is brown on the inside and paint chips are floating in the water. Advice?
Kettle that boils water or tea pot? Tea pot is stained by the tea. Not paint chips but flakes of the stain floating in the water. Tea pots are easy to clean the inside of using baking soda (rub the inside with a damp dish cloth that you have sprinkled baking soda on or sprinkle the baking soda inside the tea pot and scrub.)





Kettle is brown from your tap water/algae. Paint chips in a kettle? Maybe the hard water deposits? You can stick your hand in the kettle and wipe it down with a clean dish cloth. No soap. Kettles should be ';descaled'; with a solution you can buy at Sears, etc. Scrape off what you can with a butter knife. Gently now. If it is really bad, hate to say it but I would chuck it and buy a new one. They are really inexpensive. You can search google ';descaling a kettle'; should do the trick.My tea kettle is brown on the inside and paint chips are floating in the water. Advice?
That is not paint chips it's lime and minerals that have accumulated on the sides of your kettle. It may take several rounds to clean it up but you can do it. Put half and half water and vinegar in the kettle and let it set as long as possible overnight is best. If you can get a small brush inside rub as much of the deposit off as you can and rinse out. Repeat as often as necessary to remove the deposit. Warning: If you have other people living with you make sure to tell them what you are doing so they don't get an unpleasant surprise when making tea.
Are you sure it's paint? and not calcium deposits? If it's paint throw it away, if it's calcium, you can clean it (although it's not a health hazard, it's just gross looking).





You can buy a kettle cleaner, or soak the kettle in vinegar overnight (not as effective).





As someone else said you can ';CLR it'; but make sure you rinse it really really really well.
I would chip off the old paint on the inside to get rust out %26amp; loose bubbled old paint. then i would sand it a lil bit with a buffer, %26amp; see about getting a glaze type paint or spray that is safe for iron, metal, %26amp; stove tops so you can savor that tea kettle. There is a way to save it. You can try Michael's %26amp; Sherwin Williams paint stores for their advice. You would be surprised what all they have there.
get a glass tea kettle,keep the heat low.anything with paint on it is just a bad idea.failing that i suppose you could c.l.r. it (that's a cleaning product )
I would get a new tea kettle. I don't think you can clean it if the paint's chipping.
it would be best if you threw it away.
I would throw it away