How to make your stainless steel pans really shine? Someone will quickly answer you now: polish and polish them every day. If you have extra time, why not? No matter how hard you try, carbon deposits will always form. Even a kettle, which, it would seem, does not come into contact with oils and fats, and it quickly fades and becomes stained. There are special products on sale for cleaning such dishes, but most of them are far from cheap, with the exception of Sanita. It's a good product that won't scratch the surface, but if you're worried about household chemicals getting into your products, use one of the options in this article.
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- 1 General cleaning for dishes
- 2 Home remedies for cleaning stainless steel
- 3 The secret to perfect polishing
General cleaning for dishes
Do you do general cleaning in the house or apartment at some intervals? At the same time in the kitchen, right? This is precisely the reason to carry out the general and for her assistant - the dishes, especially since it is quite simple.
Fill a large container with warm water and add 1 tablespoon of baking soda and vinegar for each liter. Place your saucepan in a container and put it on fire. When the pan has boiled in water for about 20 minutes, you can take it out and rinse it under running water in the sink, wiping it a little with a soft washcloth. Hot water in combination with vinegar and soda will dissolve all the plaque, and all you have to do is wipe the dishes dry and admire yourself in its reflection.
Home remedies for cleaning stainless steel
Normal abrasive powders are not suitable for cleaning stainless steel pots. They scratch the surface, and it fades, and next time dirt will stick even more firmly in the scratches. Some housewives recommend using the detergents used to clean glass ceramics for cleaning. This is a really effective method, but again with an aggressive chemical character.
If you have a private house and you occasionally grill barbecues in the fresh air, collect some ash from the fire.
If you have a stainless steel teapot, and you want to clean the inside of it from dark deposits, pour vinegar into it and leave it for a while. Then it will be enough to wash it with a regular dish detergent.
The secret to perfect polishing
After removing dirt, stainless steel dishes must be wiped dry and slightly polished with a soft cloth. But since you want to achieve a mirror-like shine, before polishing, wipe the surface with a sponge dipped in a solution of ammonia (1 drop per liter of water). Then the effect will be just amazing.
And here is another interesting way to clean stainless steel in this video experiment:
Do you have your own method of cleaning such dishes? Share your experience in the comments!