Metal dishes are an indispensable assistant in our kitchen. Pots, pans, knives - cooking food is simply unthinkable without them. Nickel-plated dishes have an attractive, shiny appearance. What are its main advantages and how to clean? This will be discussed later.
Pros of Nickel-Plated Tableware
- Strength is the main advantage of nickel dishes. Given the appropriate treatment, she has the opportunity to serve for decades.
- Hygiene The main difference between nickel ware is that it is actually quite possible to call it hygienic, since harmful microbes do not accumulate on a smooth polished plane.
- Nickel dishes are environmentally friendly and can be recycled.
- Durability: such dishes are considered strong and not prone to various cracks, dents, and besides, it can be used on various plates.
- Convenient use: does not require laborious care, it is cleaned easily and quickly.
Let us further consider how and how to clean nickel-plated dishes. Our tips will help you easily complete the task.
How to clean?
Nickel-plated dishes are most often cleaned with vinegar and edible salt in a ratio of 2 to 1. This will be an excellent care.
After washing the dishes, be sure to rub them with a dry cloth. Wash it with exclusively hot water. It is not allowed to clean it with soda, sand and crushed brick.
Perfectly cleans utensils chalk.
An old folk recipe for cleaning kitchen nickel products: collect ashes from used cigarettes and clean objects well with them, then carefully wipe the surface with a cloth.
If the bottom is very greasy on the dishes, it will help to clean up liquid ammonia or a weak solution of hydrochloric acid. At the end, rinse with boiling water and polish with chalk.
Prepare a liquid from ammonia by mixing it with water. Add a little of this solution to the container. Wet an evenly soft sponge or a special rag. Rub the dirty place well. Then rub the dishes thoroughly with a sponge or cloth. Rub very dirty places with force.
Never leave dishes made of nickel-plated steel in undiluted ammonia, as all spraying may peel off.
Chemical Cleaning Caution
When working with such harmful and dangerous chemicals as ammonia, you need to be very prudent and careful. Wear protective gloves and a face mask. Better do everything outdoors or in a room with open windows. In no case should you mix different chemicals. Any connection can lead to dangerous reactions for both humans and the dishes themselves.
What you need to start cleaning: a napkin, a special cleaning agent for metal utensils, an iron coarse sponge, ammonia or vinegar essence, warm water, a large dish, an oven cleaner, and a polish for metal.
We clean dishes with prepared cleaning agents
Polish the surface. If the dishes are not very dirty and greasy, you can just use a polish for the alloy. Polishing for chromed surfaces is unsurpassed for nickel-plated dishes. Apply not too much of the product to the surface, and then polish with light movements.
Find an antimicrobial disinfectant alloy cleaner in the mall. Apply this composition to very dirty places on dishes, especially to yellowed parts that often form on nickel-plated surfaces of dishes. Leave the product so that it has time to act for 30 minutes. In addition, the anti-corrosion agent WD-40 is often used, which destroys oil stains.
An excellent option for cleaning nickel dishes, the photo of which is presented in the article, is considered to be a cleaning agent for stoves and ovens, it can be extremely useful in eliminating greasy deposits.
It will be good to first test this method on a not very large section of the plane. If the nickel plating of the dishes is extremely thin, then use a metal sponge or scraper with care so as not to damage the surface. If the metal is stable, then you can gently rub the greasy place with a tool, then with an iron sponge and then polish it.