Homemade Silver Cleaner
Silver is an elegant metal used to create flatware, home decor, jewelry and many other items. When the silver needs to be cleaned, avoid the high-priced chemical silver cleaners found at the grocery store and use a homemade silver cleaner that works just as well instead. By mixing a few household ingredients you can safely clean your silver without use of chemicals or harmful elements. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Pan or basin
- Boiling water
- Washing soda
- Aluminum foil
- Tongs
- Cleaning rags
Instructions
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Place a large sheet of aluminum foil, shiny side up, across the bottom of a skillet or basin.
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Place all of the silver onto the sheet of tin foil.
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Pour about 1 gallon boiling water into the skillet or basin, or as much water needed to submerge the silver.
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Pour 1/4 cup washing soda into the water, stir slightly and allow the silver to sit for 15 minutes.
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Remove the silver with tongs, rinse with warm water, and dry with a cleaning rag to polish the silver and remove the loosened residue.
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Tips & Warnings
The process may need to be repeated if silver is heavily tarnished.
Antique hollow-handled pieces, usually knives, may be damaged by soaking.
References
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Comments
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How is this cleaning "without use of chemicals"? Water is a chemical (H20), as is aluminium foil (AL2O3) and washing soda (whatever that is). For that matter, skillets, basins, tongs and cleaning rags are all made of "chemicals", as are you, your PC, the air you breathe and every single other thing you eat or see or touch in your everyday life (unless you happen to work with experimental fusion reactors or the LHC). Please stop trying to make the word "chemical" into some kind of dirty word. Without chemicals you would not exist. And don't even get me started on "harmful elements..."
