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The Aluminum Foil Hack That Will Have Your Silverware Looking Brand-New
By Julia Mullaney
Cleaning old silverware can be a daunting task that often requires a lot of scrubbing, but thankfully there's an aluminum hack that will leave your cutlery shiny and new.
All you have to do is place the silverware in a foil-lined dish or a disposable foil dish from the grocery store and load it with salt, baking soda, and some boiling water.
You'll need a dish large enough to not only fit the silverware but also make sure each piece is touching the aluminum foil in some way, whether on the bottom or the sides.
Then, add boiling water to the dish and make sure the water covers the silverware entirely. Add two tablespoons of baking soda for every 34 ounces (or one liter) of water.
The solution soaking the silverware carries the sulfur atoms that created the tarnish on your silverware over to the aluminum.
The scruff basically removes itself from your utensils and sticks to the aluminum instead. The result is clean, shiny silverware without having to lift a finger.