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Sunday, January 31 2010 - 07:32
Cleaning sterling silver is easy with ordinary household ingredients. You will need baking soda, aluminum foil, a glass dish (I use a pyrex loaf pan) and boiling water.
First, crumple up some tin foil and put it in the bottom of the glass dish. Lay your silver jewelry down making sure that it lies as flat as possible and doesn’t criss cross over itself. It’s OK if it has other gemstones in it as the process won’t harm them. I have done this with pearls even and it’s OK. Sprinkle LOTS of baking soda on top. You want to completely cover the jewelry with the baking soda.
Then, boil some water. Once it’s up to boiling temperature, pour the water over the baking soda. It will fizz and bubble and you will probably smell sulfur…that rotten egg smell. Once the bubbling stops, carefully lift out your jewelry (it’s hot, remember) and wash it off under cold water. The baking soda might make it a bit slippery but just use enough cold water to wash it off. Your silver should be bright and shiny. If not, do it again. It won’t hurt the silver.
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