Stainless steel cookware sets are popular among modern housewives. With good care, convenient and practical frying pans, bowls and saucepans retain an attractive appearance for a long time, do not deform or oxidize when in contact with food.
Cleaning products
If there are errors in use, the utensils lose their presentation. Grease and soot stains accumulate, limescale settles, and rust and stains form.
To bring utensils back to their original appearance, housewives use various means, of which there are a great variety on store shelves. Each company advertises its products. It can be difficult to make sense of the rich assortment. And besides, the cost of chemistry is considerable.
Experienced housewives use home remedies to clean their utensils and note that the end result is impressive.
Recipes for home remedies for soot and grease
Pastes, solutions, mixtures, powders used for food or stored in a home medicine cabinet are safe and do not contain toxins or chemicals. The composition is quite suitable for washing kitchen utensils of this type.
Boiling
This effective recipe will help remove carbon deposits, scale, greasy yellow deposits, and other contaminants from the inside of stainless steel cookware.
Procedure:
- composition preparation;
- heating to boiling;
- boiling - a quarter of an hour;
- rinsing with detergent.
Compositions for boiling are chosen according to your taste.
Types of compositions:
- Clean water with light contamination.
- Table vinegar in a 1:1 ratio with water.
- Dishwashing gel – 2–3 tbsp. l., water – 1 l.
- A third of a bar of laundry soap, 1 tbsp. l. PVA glue, 4 liters of water.
- Soda ash (sodium carbonate) - 100 ml, liquid glass (silicate glue) - 100 ml, laundry soap - 200 g, 10-liter bucket of water.
To clean dishes from the inside and outside, as well as forks and spoons from soot and grease, choose one of these compositions, but use it a little differently.
Procedure:
- pour the composition into a large container (bucket, 10-liter pan);
- immerse the dishes;
- boil for 5 to 15 minutes;
- cool, wash with dish soap, rinse.
Dish gel can be replaced with liquid or crushed laundry soap.
From carbon deposits
For these purposes, a drug from a home medicine cabinet or coffee beans is suitable.
Pasta preparation:
- 30–40 tablets of crushed activated carbon and water.
- Ground coffee beans, ground with water to a thick mushy state.
Algorithm of actions:
- a thick composition is applied to problem areas;
- stand for 20–30 minutes;
- wash with dishwashing gel.
After washing and rinsing, the dishes are wiped dry with a dry towel to avoid stains.
From scale and white plaque
The concentration of the composition (from 15 to 50 g of product per 1 liter of water) depends on the degree of contamination of the utensils.
Select any of the following:
- table vinegar;
- liquid citric acid;
- Coca Cola.
Procedure:
- The product is poured into a saucepan or kettle.
- Bring to a boil.
- Leave on low heat for 2-3 minutes.
- The contents are replaced with clean water.
- After boiling, wash with detergent.
To make dishes shine, use solutions of vinegar or lemon juice. The dishes are polished with a sponge soaked in the solution. Then it is washed under running water and wiped dry. Sometimes, to make the utensils shine, they rub them with raw potatoes without skins.
Stainless steel cookware requires regular maintenance. After each use, clean with detergent, water, and an abrasive sponge. But if it so happens that the utensils have lost their original appearance, stains and scale have appeared, one of the home remedies will definitely help.
