How do you clean silver or plated cutlery before Christmas? It turns out there’s a simple, homemade way to do this that doesn’t require a lot of chemicals. All you need is aluminum foil, baking soda and sugar. We present a simple patent for pre-Christmas cleaning.
In the middle of the holiday preparations, in addition to the traditional cleaning, cooking and decorating the Christmas tree, a dilemma arises:
“How to give silver cutlery the required shine that will please the guests at the Christmas table?”
It turns out there’s an easy way to do it that only requires a few off-the-shelf ingredients. The solution is to use aluminum foil and boiling water when cleaning silver or plated cutlery.
Here are the steps to achieve a mirror-like shine:
- Prepare several pieces of aluminum foil and then roll them up.
- Add baking soda and sugar to a pot of water.
- When the water reaches boiling point, add the foil and cutlery.
- Cook the cutlery in boiling water for 10 minutes, and after removing it, wash it with a sponge and washing-up liquid and rinse it under water. Finally, polish it.
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