How to take care of kitchen utensils

Kitchen - the face of the mistress of the house. And the best thing about it will tell kitchen utensils. By its appearance, you can immediately tell whether they looked after her or disregarded her, significantly reducing her lifespan. But if only it was about the external unsightliness of groomed utensils! Speech about the danger to the health of residents of a house in which they do not look after the dishes or do it wrong.


Glassware

With the addition of a special detergent for shine, you can wipe the dishes with salt, wash with soapy water and rinse with cold or warm water, adding a little salt or vinegar. Clean the glasswarepost up on the bottom of the towel to drain the water. Then wipe off with a dry towel or linen napkin.

All-glassed glasses, bowls, glasses and saucers should be washed with water and salt, wood ash or vinegar. Contaminated bottles can be washed:

To make glass and crystal glassware always shiny, you should wash it only with cold water!

Glass-ware of glass

Pour a cold liquid into heated dishes of this type. Before you put it on the fire, check if its external surface is wiped well. The bottom during cooking should always be hidden under a layer of fat or water, and warm up the food you need on a mildew, stirring constantly. Do not rub refractory utensils with sand or wire, this causes irreparable damage.

Aluminum Cookware

Aluminum under the action of acids and alkalis is destroyed, so in such a container it is impossible to store a hot salt solution, vinegar, sour milk, salted fish, cheese. This utensil must always be protected from bumps and any squeezing - this leads to its deformation. Spots on aluminum cookware from burnt food are removed if boiled water and onion. Flushes and rusty spots are cleaned with a tampon with vinegar.

Tinware

The tins and tin forms are washed with water and baking soda. To remove rust from such dishes, it should be wiped with an ordinary green tomato cut in half, or half a potato peel. The dishes from the black tin are washed with water with the addition of soda, then dried on a plate (you can wipe it with soft paper), and the fatware is cleaned with salt to add water. You can pour water into the dishes, put the peelings from apples and pears, boil - it will become lighter and cleaner.

Frying Pans

Cast iron scraps before washing are wiped with paper, and then they are washed out with hot water by a wash. Remains of burnt food can easily be wiped off with large dry salt. Iron iron for shine after washing is wiped with hot salt.

Knives of the pen

Spots on them are well cleaned if a bottle stopper is dipped in fine sand and soap powder, and then strongly rub it with forks and knives. Clean and shiny they will, if you rub them with sliced ​​raw potatoes. The most persistent stains are cleaned with the help of lemon juice, and rust - with the help of a bulb.

Knives can not be thrown on a hot stove or stove, because the blade tip is heated, and the steel begins to lose strength and elasticity. If the knives and forks have wooden crochets, they can not be left in hot water for a long time-glue cuttings dissolve. Stainless steel appliances are easy to clean - they do not need cleaning.

Enameled tableware

It requires a very careful treatment. Thin enamel cracks at the slightest blow, temperature change, and also under the influence of acids and alkalis. Dishes with enamel, damaged from the inside, should not be used in cooking the food. In the place of damage, the enamel peels off, its particles enter food, causing harm to health.

Wash such a vessel with soap and water, and dry at room temperature (not in the oven or on a hot plate). Burnt enamel utensils are washed, filled with water and a spoonful of soda and leaving to stand for the complete dissolution of burnt food. The water should then be boiled-the dishes will be clean.

Silver or nickel products

Washenikelirovannyh products are carried out by a warm soap solution. Also cleanse with tooth powder or chalk with ammonia. The objects must be covered with a mixture, allowed to dry, and then wiped. Inside, wipe with a mixture of vinegar and salt, and then rinse with hot water with the addition of a detergent. The rust is removed from the nickel-plated dishes with the help of some grease, then wiped dry with a rag soaked in ammonia.

For cleaning silver items there is a proven method. In boiling solution (a tablespoon of boiled salt, fresh shell from two eggs per 1 liter of water), forks, spoons and knives are dropped for only 15 seconds, previously washed in hot water. After the boiling, they are thoroughly washed and wiped dry with a cloth cloth.

To remove stains and plaque from silver dishes, you can do the following: wipe the subject with a cloth soaked in soapy water. Then brush with a thick paste of natural alcohol and tooth powder. Wash dishes with hot water, dry with a towel.

Porcelain and ceramic ware

Porcelain dishes can not be washed in very hot water. She washes in warm water with soap, then rinsed in cold water. Hot water can greatly damage the glaze. Any porcelain tableware with the years darkens. To restore her shine and whiteness, lightly wipe it with water or salt with vinegar. The method is not suitable for dishes with gold painting!

Ceramic and pottery is washed in hot water with drinking soda, and then rinsed in clean water. Unglazed earthenware should be dried well, it is recommended to keep it open. Covered with a lid, such dishes gains an unpleasant smell.

Good advice

The dishes of the burnt food are washed easily, if soak it in water with the addition of one-spoonful of drinking soda.

To remove much burnt food, sprinkle the dishes with salt, pour a little water in it for two or three hours. Or pour water with salt or soda and boil.

In the kettle for removing scale, pour water, boil it, add soda (2 tablespoons per liter) and boil 25 minutes. Drain the water, pour half a cup of the vinegar essence and boil again for 30 minutes. Loosen scum easily rubbed with a sponge.

The knife is not recommended for washing with hot water. To give the sharpness and shine, it should be rubbed with cut potatoes. If you hold the knife in a solution of table salt 20 minutes, it will be easy to sharpen. Knives should always be kept separate from the other metal objects - from contact with them the knives are quickly drowned. To remove an unpleasant onion odor from the knife, grate it with salt.

New wooden dishes must be soaked in water for a couple of days to remove tannic substances, giving off an unpleasant smell to pickles, sauerkraut, etc. Water often.

Follow these simple tips. Care of dishes will take from you a little time, asc of her service will increase at times. Yes, and use perfectly clean dishes pleasingly.