Cleaning Spoons

[Mikey]

Last weekend my DD had to do a science experiment for school, so we tested a few.

The first was cleaning silver spoons with aluminium foil, bicarb and boiling water?

Has anyone done this before, I had to keep repeating it as it amazed me with its sheer simplicity.

We also threaded pins into a blown up balloon without popping it, but that's a different story.

[mothhawk]

I remember my dad cleaning the chromework on his car with aluminium foil (Morris Oxford it was).

[chefgage]

I am sure there was an episode of mythbusters that showed cleaning the hrome on a car with foil

[kirsty b]

Have cleaned a silver locket using that method, came up lovely. Got it from a natural housekeeping book that shows how to clean without using harsh chemicals

[Chocolate8me]

I remember my dad cleaning the chromework on his car with aluminium foil (Morris Oxford it was).

What's one of them?

[julesapple]

We also threaded pins into a blown up balloon without popping it, but that's a different story.

Sellotape?

[taff]

not sure if just ordinary washing powder works too. It does a lovely job on stainless tannin stained teaspoons. Same for tannin stained cups/mugs. Add powder to a mug, about a teaspoon, then fill with boiling water. Put your spoons in leave for a few hours. Wash, wash the mug too, presto, no stains
Powder works better than liquid.

[Moo's Mum]

Many years ago when I was a student, I used to work in a large, very grand hotel and one of my jobs was cleaning the silverware. We used to use foil and bicarb.

[Mikey]

Sellotape?

No you rub vaseline over the needle and twist it as it enters the balloon, it goes through a treat I managed 9 before the 10th popped the balloon and covered me in vaseline!! (note they have to go in the end not the side)

[Jax]

ok, so now I feel silly what is the foil and bicarb method? About to start polishing the chrome on the anglia so could be useful

[Jax]

its ok I have googled it. Pretty cool, also found the polishing with aluminium foil thingy. I had been wandering how we were going to polish those up so thankyou *wanders off to add aluminium foil to tommorrows shopping delivery

[Snadger]

Marestail is supposed to be good for polishing stuff......................... I'm glad its useful for summat......

[Mato]

I have never heard of this trick. I have quite a few pieces of silver here that could use some polishing. What exactly is bicarb? The name doesn't sound familiar.

[taff]

Bicarbonate of Soda - sold here in small tins for cooking with, or people use it to mix with a fizzy drink as an indigestion remedy