Baking Soda and Vinegar is great duo can also be used for cleaning silverware.
Your ingredients:
- A glass baking dish
- 1 to 2 cups of boiling water (You need enough to completely submerge your silver.)
- ½ cup of distilled white vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of baking soda
- 1 tablespoon of sea salt
- A microfiber cloth
- Mix the baking soda and sea salt. Sprinkle this mixture into a baking dish.
- Pour the vinegar into the dish. You’ll start to see fizzing as the baking soda and vinegar react with one another.
- Add boiling water, taking care not to burn yourself.
- Now place your silverware in the baking dish.
- Let the silverware soak. Gently tarnished pieces will need to soak for about 30 seconds. Silverware with heavy tarnish may need to soak for three to five minutes.
- Carefully remove silverware using tongs so that you don’t burn yourself.
- Dry and buff your silver with a microfiber cloth.
- Repeat with a fresh solution for any another round of silverware that need cleaning
CLEANING SILVERWARE WITH TOOTHPASTE
Toothpaste can be used to bring the shine back to tarnished silverware.
You’ll need:
- Toothpaste (Paste Only)
- Microfiber cloth
- A soft toothbrush
- Warm water
- Rub toothpaste onto the tarnished silver using a dry microfiber cloth. Using a soft to the touch tooth brush so that the toothpaste doesn’t scratch the silver.
- Gently clean detailed areas of silverware with a toothbrush instead of the cloth. Gently wipe the silverware, do not scrub you could damage your silver pieces.
- Rinse thoroughly using warm water.
- Wipe the items dry with a clean microfiber cloth.
HOW TO CLEAN SILVER WITH BAKING SODA
You’ll need:
- Baking soda
- Water
- A bowl
- Microfiber cloths
- A soft toothbrush
- In the bowl, mix three scoops of baking soda to one cup of water. Stir until you have a paste.
- Dip your microfiber cloth into the paste, and delicately rub the mixture onto your silver pieces.
- Use a soft toothbrush to clean any engraving or fine details. Do not to scrub you will damage your silver.
- Rinse your silver with warm water to remove baking soda residue.
- Lastly dry your silverware with a clean microfiber cloth.
These methods can be used to clean the tarnish from your silvers, but applying some silver polish to make them gleam is also great.
