Cleaning expert's 70p hack transforms tarnished cutlery from dull to gleaming
Tarnished cutlery is an eye sore and can ruin the perfect meal but by following a cleaning expert's quick and budget-friendly tip, yours will be gleaming once more.
The list of jobs to do before Christmas can seem never ending and one of those more minor but still important ones that may get forgotten is polishing the cutlery. After all your hard work slaving in a hot kitchen on the big day, it can be most annoying to realise your tableware is still dull and discoloured because it went under the radar.
Luckily a top cleaning expert has jogged the nation's memory by sharing her quick and inexpensive tip on how to get your cutlery tarnish-free in time for entertaining over the festive period.
Lynsey Queen of Clean, who regularly appears on ITV's This Morning where she shares her environmentally-friendly cleaning expertise, revealed how she gets her silverware sparkling new again and her method involves giving it a 'bath' with two cheap ingredients.
Posting her tip online as part of her 12 Hacks of Christmas series, she suggests using salt and bicarbonate of soda, which can be picked up in supermarkets for under a pound
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She says: "Don't spoil a delicious Christmas dinner with tarnished silverware. Make your cutlery shine with a bicarbonate of soda and salt bath. If your cutlery is looking tarnished, rusty or just needs a general shine up, this is such a fabulous tip."
Sprinkle bicarbonate of soda and salt over the cutlery (lynsey_queenofclean/Instagram)
Polish with a lint free cloth after soaking (lynsey_queenofclean/Instagram)Explaining how to do it, she says you need to place a layer of tin foil at the bottom of your sink and add your cutlery on top. Then add boiling water and sprinkle over a "good helping" of both salt and bicarb.
Leave it soaking for 15 minutes and then dry and buff using a lint free cloth. For anyone wondering how it works, she claims the "electronic action" does the cleaning for you.
Lynsey suggests that while you wait for your knives, forks and spoons to soak, it's the perfect opportunity to give your cutlery drawer a good clean out using a household agent such as Cif. Your gleaming "good as new" silverware then has a dust and dirt free home to be returned to.
Other hacks in Lynsey's Christmas cleaning list includes using duct tape wrapped around your hand to pick up pine needles from the tree and putting an old pair of tights over your vacuum nozzle to easily suck up glitter that's fallen from cards and wrapping.
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