Aluminum utensils are very often used in everyday life. It is light, practical, durable, has the property of heating up very quickly and is the best suited for boiling milk, preventing it from burning. To prevent the formation of a film harmful to the health and spoiling the appearance of the aluminum product, such dishes must be cleaned periodically.
You will need
- - a bucket of water;
- - office silicate glue, 80 g;
- - caustic soda ash, 100 g;
- - drinking soda, 100g.
Instruction manual
1
Pick up a bucket of water. Dissolve silicate glue in water by stirring it. Warm the resulting solution to room temperature.
2
Add soda ash to heated water, stir it in water. Cover the bucket and bring the resulting solution to a boil. When working with soda ash, be careful - getting on the skin can cause burns, in contact with concentrated substance, wash the affected area with a weak solution of acetic acid or under running water.
3
When the water boils, put the dishes cleaned of food debris in a bucket and boil it for 20-30 minutes.
4
Remove the solution bucket from the heat and let cool with the dishes. When the water has cooled, remove the dishes and rinse them thoroughly under running warm water.
5
Mix baking soda with a little cold water. Apply the resulting slurry to the surface of the dishes and rub it with a cloth of dense material or a hard sponge for some time. Wash the mixture with warm water and laundry soap and wipe the aluminum dishes dry.
note
Aluminum will break down very quickly from exposure to alkaline and acidic environments, so do not store foods with a high content of acid and salts, such as pickle, preserves, salted fish, stewed cabbage, or sour milk, in aluminum dishes. Do not wash aluminum containers with alkaline cleaning products.
Useful advice
To maintain the shine of aluminum utensils, add a few drops of ammonia to the water during washing. Perform the following cleaning periodically: wipe the surface of the dishes without wetting them with tooth powder, and then rinse the mixture with warm water. Do not replace toothpowder with other abrasive products such as washing powder, chalk or sand, as a result, the aluminum surface may darken.
