How to clean aluminum dishes at home?

Aluminum cookware is very popular with many housewives. It is a pleasure to cook in it, but such dishes are very capricious in their care. About the peculiarities of cleaning dishes from aluminum at home, tell our article.

Everyone knows that aluminum is a very delicate, malleable metal. When cleaning dishes from this metal, you should consider its properties, only in this way can you preserve its pristine brilliance and beauty:

• Start washing the pan or pan only after it has completely cooled. The fact is that the heated metal can deform under the influence of water and, consequently, change the shape of the product.
• When cleaning, use a soft sponge and a wooden spatula so as not to scratch the product.
• When choosing a detergent, give preference to products suitable for glass and ceramics.
• Do not use abrasive and alkaline cleaners, as they can easily damage the surface of the dish. The resulting cracks can easily get dirt that will be difficult to clean.
• Soak the dishes in a soap solution for a few minutes. After that, you can easily wash off uncomplicated dirt.
• To clean more serious dirt, use the boiling method. To do this, pick up a large pelvis, put an aluminum pan or other object of utensils in it and boil the product, adding ordinary soda.
• To prevent stains after washing, wipe it dry with a soft cloth.

Aluminum often loses its luster during use. However, it is possible to return the dishes to their original appearance at home. you only need to follow the following guidelines:

• If your pan is blackened, then kefir, cucumber pickle or sour milk will help to get rid of this blackness. Apply these products with a soft sponge to the surface and leave for two hours. In case of heavy dirt, pour the liquid to the bottom and leave it for four hours. After that, clean the pan in the usual way and dry it.
• Vinegar will also help bring back the shine to your pot or pan. Dampen a cloth in vinegar and rub it on the surface of the product. Rinse it in cool water and dry with a napkin.
• The next way to return the original appearance of the bottom of the dish is boiling with onions. Fill the pot with water, wait for it to boil, and then lower one bulb inside. Continue boiling for another ten minutes. After cooling dishes, wash it with running water and dry.
• It is curious, but you can return the shine to aluminum using ordinary apples. Grate the apples on a grater and put the slurry on the surface of the pan.

In the process of cooking in any pan remain fat traces. In order to clean the aluminum dishes from greasy stains Use the following methods:

• If the pan has become greasy from the outside, then find a larger basin and pour warm water into it. Put the soiled dishes inside and leave it for one hour. As time passes, wash the pan with a soft sponge and dry with a cloth.
• If the aluminum utensils become greasy inside, then pour water into it and add citric acid and vinegar in equal proportions. Boil the contents for half an hour. After that, rinse the pan and wipe it dry.
• In order to clean the cutlery, pick up a suitable container and place in it your spoons, forks and knives. Boil them in a solution of lemon and vinegar for a quarter of an hour. Then rinse with water and dry on a towel.

Sometimes it happens that in the process of cooking on the dishes formed soot. To clean the surface of carbon in the following ways:

• Wait for the dishes to cool completely, otherwise it may become deformed by the action of water.
• If the soot did not have time to soak into the surface, try to clean it with a soap solution. To do this, rub a piece of laundry soap on a grater and put the chips in warm water. Let the dishes stand for a while. Then wipe it with a soft sponge and dry it.
• Complex stains are removed with a mixture of soap, silicate glue and soda.
• If it is necessary to remove carbon from the outer surface of the dish, boil it in a larger container.

Often scale and scurf appear on the dishes, this is due to the peculiarities of the metal:

• In order to remove them without damaging the product, in any case, do not rub the surface with a stiff brush.
• If the scale is strong, then the method of boiling with soapy water, silicate glue and soda will help to cope with it best. Boil the dishes for at least half an hour.
• In case the scale on the pan is not strong, ammonia can help. Wipe them the surface of the product, wash with soapy water and rinse with plenty of water.
• Table vinegar will help in the fight against scale. Boil aluminum kitchenware with it for half an hour.

So that you do not have to apply enhanced measures to clean aluminum dishes from various impurities, try to initially follow some rules for the care of such dishes:

• Before using aluminum cookware, boil it in salted water. Thanks to salt, it will become more rigid and less scale and fumes will form on it.
• In order for the dishes to shine, wash it in a soap solution with the addition of ammonia.
• Glitter aluminum dishes will last for a long time, if you periodically wash it with tooth powder. To do this, first dissolve it in a small amount of liquid and apply to the surface with a soft sponge.
• It is also recommended not to cook dishes in an aluminum dish without adding salt.

On how to clean the dishes from aluminum without chemicals using waste, see the following video.