How To Clean 18/10 Stainless Steel Flatware

This tried and true method using simple household ingredients removes water stains, dried on food and other crud and makes your stainless steel cutlery shine!

clean silverware

Expert morning my friend! During this uncertain time, I'yard finding that it is all-time to stay decorated, and to lookout the news but once a twenty-four hour period!

There have definitely been perks to the social isolation, such equally spending quality time with my kids, lots of baking and experimenting in the kitchen, communicable upwards on Tv set shows and movies, and being motivated to get some extra chores completed!

I am not one to mail cleaning tutorials, although my easy way to clean baseboards using a $ane dollar store production has been a very popular post! But I have been noticing for about a month that our stainless steel cutlery has been looking pretty bad. Water spots, rusty looking marks and dullness have met my eyes every time I get to reach for a fork! I idea you might enjoy seeing my lazy daughter's style to getting sparkly clean utensils!

Easily Clean Water Spots from Utensils

I've been putting this job off because...well, I guess simply because I'thou lazy! It's always much simpler than I retrieve information technology's going to be, and only takes nearly xv minutes to sparkling clean utensils! Plus, if you have a Science geek in the business firm, they'll definitely enjoy watching the process! 😃

Household Supplies

Rather than buying expensive (and probable toxic) products to clean my stainless steel and silver utensils, I discover these household giants exercise the job but also, maybe even ameliorate!

tin can foil
baking soda
white vinegar
boiling water

ingredients

That is all you need! Now let me prove you lot a petty before picture of my water-spotted, grimy looking utensils...do yours look like this?

dirty utensils

I find peanut butter (and any nut butter for that matter) doesn't completely come off in our dishwasher. I'm left with dirty-looking stains, dried on food, and fifty-fifty a few rusty spots. Gross!!! 😱😬

How to Clean Utensils

The first matter to do is make full a kettle with water and get-go it humid. If you don't have a kettle, fill a big pot with water on the stovetop.

Lay a sheet of tin foil, shiny side upward, in your sink.

I ordinarily do all of ane kind of utensil at a time (ie: all my teaspoons), so spread them out on the can foil, front end side up. It'south okay if it's a little crowded, but try to accept them in a single layer.

Harness the Power of Baking Soda and Vinegar!

Next, generously sprinkle blistering soda over the utensils, making sure to coat whatever dirty spots. Then pour most 1/4 loving cup of white vinegar over the height and watch it foam as it removes all that grime.

baking soda

vinegar

In one case the foaming stops, cascade well-nigh a cup of boiling water over the top. This seems to reactivate the baking pulverisation and vinegar cleaning action and gives an additional heave to the job!

boiling water

If utensils are really dirty, let them soak in this cleaning solution for a few minutes. Then I like to mitt launder the utensils using dish soap and a gentle scrubber. Rinse well then dry.

I exit the piece of tin foil, and any cleaning leftovers, in the sink and just keeping adding a new batch of utensils. Y'all'll be amazed how dirty the tin foil looks once y'all're finished! It'due south like information technology draws all that grime out and hangs onto it!

I find that our utensils often get put away wet, or damp, and our hard water loves to create stains on the stainless!

dirty utensil caddy

Only when the cleaned utensils are completely dry out do they go returned to the caddy.

It feels Then good to spend 15 minutes on this cleaning chore and be rewarded with clean and sparkly utensils in a clean caddy!

clean utensil drawer

Before and Afterwards

I took before and afterwards photos of the aforementioned knives, just so you can actually see the comparison!

Outset the dirty...

dirty knives

Now the clean...

clean knives

Can you encounter the deviation? WOW correct?!

If you still have some rusty looking spots later on following this cleaning method, yous may demand to utilise a piece of steel wool to help end the job. I merely accept to practise that once a yr or even every other twelvemonth. This method does a fantastic task in between!

I hope you found this cleaning tutorial helpful! Delight allow me know if you accept any questions...I'chiliad certainly no cleaning adept 😉 but maybe I'll exist able to help!

Pivot for later

clean utensils

Who wants to encounter my lazy daughter's no-scrubbing way to make clean the within of my oven door using 2 unproblematic household ingredients? Permit me know in the comments if you're interested in a tutorial!

Take care!

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