If you don't already know this easy technique of cleaning silver or that there is a small step of cleaning a self cleaning oven, I hope this clean with me video gave you a few answers!
I've been using this technique for year's. I inherited a silver coffee and tea set from my mother in law and this method has kept it clean and shinny!!
You're so funny! I'm impulsive just like you and appreciate your personality - if you lived down the street from me we would be best friends.. I love your channel and enjoy your creativity so much. Please keep posting more tips like this one.
I love how your concoction cleans the silver. I can’t wait to try it. I also love all your edited comments. They sound like what I’d be thinking also. I always get a laugh out of them.
My mother used to clean some of her larger pieces with boiling water and spic and span powder in an aluminum roaster. Silverware we use to sit for hours cleaning. I have found that if used on a regular basis it doesn't need as much cleaning. Thanks for this method since spic and span powder is hard to find. Would love a best of book. Have a great week!
It was so nice to watch your video on a Sunday afternoon! I also have silver plated pieces from thrift stores and estate sales and I will use your method for cleaning- so easy and great results. Thank you and have a lovely week. Jane
I love polishing silver !! My 96 yr young mother has terrible arthritis in her hands and l used to volunteer to polish all of her silver for her... (my ADHD soul finds it very relaxing). Her flatware is 1940 s so everything has to be done by hand. My Reed and Barton is 1981 so l just put it in the dishwasher. The problem l have on some Sterling serving pieces are little black spots. My mother used to keep plants in one and it’s got a few of these pits . Years ago there was a silversmith in Chatham, NJ that could repair and rebuild anything, sadly he is long gone. Thank you for sharing. It was fun to watch .
Love your videos , you are a very honest person. Thank you very much for sharing your cleaning methods with us , I do appreciate it.I always learn something new from watching your videos.thanks once again love.
I just tried this method on my silver and it works like magic!! OMG the quickest I've ever cleaned the silver and it's beautiful. Thanks so much for posting this.
Thank you for sharing this👍💖! Finally l will be able to use my silver items more often now. Before silver cleaning allways long time to get nice result.
Hi Linda I have never did the self cleaning oven. I will try it now. The sliver cleaning can it be used on sliver jewelry? Also, I have asked this already, do you have a copper cleaning recipe. I have some copper bottom pots of my grandma and a copper weathervane. Thank you always enjoy your video’s. Take care. Pauline
regarding you 'thinking' about a best of edition, do like Nike ,just do it :) I am wondering about leaving a metal bowl or pot of water in the oven set to 400f, leave it there for about 15 minutes to steam the oven clean in place of the 500 oven clean
Hi Linda, I use this method on my sterling flatware as I use it every day. So much easier than polishing all those pieces. For my hollow ware I use Hagarty’s silver wash. Does a great job. FWI, I put my sterling forks and spoons in my dishwasher. Not the knives as the handles are glued. Just make sure the sterling is in a basket separate from any stainless steel. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Linda! I collect the Wallace Silver Sleigh Bells for my Christmas tree. Most that I’ve picked up at antique stores are, of course, tarnished. So I will make them like new again!
What is this magic potion? Makes me want to go up in the attic and dig out my tarnished “treasures” right away. Thank you for sharing this. Happy New Year!
Hi Linda! I really hope that you do a “best of” magazine. I think you mentioned possibly doing a tabletop book as well. I know that I would love that and certainly purchase it or/and the magazine as well and I am sure I am not alone in my thinking! Enjoyed your silver cleaning tips and always enjoy your videos!
Amazing idea , I will try this I have some silver that needs cleaning and my oven, baking powder sure does wonders. Thank you for the amazing tips Linda ❤😊
Bonjour Linda, I did try this method years ago and although it works I quickly turned back to my fantastic product that I buy at Birks Store.(high end jewelry store and fine silver). It is a red paste that I apply with a damp sponge that comes with the product : no smell, no mess, perfect result. Perhaps I am a little lazy and I dont want to spend a loot of time boiling water, changing the water and foil, etc. !! Anyway, it was fun to watch this video.
Funny you should ask! I have been working on a few videos for some of my favorite books for different topics that I have on my shelf. Herbs and Gardening... that will be on of the videos!
Loved this video! Thanks! I was planning to try this method on my thrift store silver trays, etc. and just happened to see your video. I have also heard of putting ketchup on them but I think your method is less messy. LOL :)
I was looking for a more natural method instead of buying harsh chemicals. I asked you before about this. Thanks for sharing! Also can you share how you dress your sofas/chairs? Do you change your cushions?
Great video - I have also used that cleaning method for my "cheap" silver, it's amazing. Do yuo suggest ammonia for cleaning oven racks? I would love a Best Of!
I've never tried the ammonia. I currently just use warm water with a few drops of dish detergent and a nylon scrubbing pad on my racks. on the silver racks, like on my other stoves I used something like an SOS pad .
Not a method I would use, because it causes micro pitting to the surface. The "egg" smell is sulfur, because the tarnish is basically sulfur from air pollution and has attached to the silver. If you have ever noticed that silver tarnishes faster with bad air quality days or using a silver fork on a runny egg, that is why.
Sulfur molecules are also found in many soaps, lotions, and perfumes so it’s not just the air quality. Onions and Eggs have high sulfur content. Bore water has sulfur. Also other contributors of tarnish are humidity levels and the copper that makes up a portion of sterling silver reacts with oxygen to cause a tarnish. My guess is she is ok with the micro-pitting because as she said they were not family heirlooms and less than $5.
You’ll like this we have a Viking electric stove with a self cleaning oven. Every year or so years I would have to call the repair guy because either one of the burner elements would not work or the temperature in the oven stopped working or the oven cleaning cycle would not work. I remember thinking I’m never getting another Viking the repairs are expensive . Then it hit me the self cleaning cycle gets so hot 500 degrees that it would ruin something in the oven and it would have to be repaired . So I haven’t used the self cleaning cycle since the last repair person came that was three years ago. Now I clean the oven every spring by hand. No more repair person. Unbelievable!
Ohhh great idea I collect silver sugar tongs and they're fiddly to clean this would be a quick way , thank you 💖 this might be a silly question to some but... which way up should the foil be in the bowl, ie shiny side up or dull side, I'm thinking shiny and apologies if you said how I obviously didn't hear. X
I have done this on a smaller scale, with my sterling silver jewelry. most of the pieces that I have are not expensive, and I do usually use either a polishing cloth or silver cleaner, but I wanted to see if it would work, and it did! I have alot of copper and brass, do you know how to clean those? thanks for sharing! xoxo
