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  • Really boring stainless steel cleaning question…
  • mastiles_fanylion
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    How TF can I easily remove dishwasher liquid spills from the front of our stainless steel dishwasher? They appear to be 100% pure calcified deposits and I can’t shift the feckers.

    wwaswas
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    An ‘e-cloth’ works great on stainless steel – you can rub as hard as you like and it doesn’t seem to mark it.

    orangina
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    Try to put some baby oil on a cloth and wipe it. That’s how we clean ours.

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    mastiles_fanylion
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    Try to put some baby oil on a cloth and wipe it. That’s how we clean ours.

    Baby oil is good for general cleaning I agree, but these marks are solid deposits – we have tried soapy water, various general kitchen cleaners and specialist stainless steel cleaners and none of them will budge the marks.

    MrsPoddy
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    +1 for the baby oil and you can also use baby wipes.

    geoffj
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    Fenwicks

    (well that’s what I cleaned the oven with anyway – vapourised fenwicks can smart a bit on the eyes though!)

    FunkyDunc
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    GT85 ? It gets most stuff off most things…

    lazlo53
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    WD40 works really well on ss

    allthepies
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    Barkeepers Friend ?

    http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/product/8868?src=gfeed

    Most supermarkets sell it.

    cynic-al
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    Ask your husband to clean it.

    prettygreenparrot
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    Plastic scraper. Then some Cif SS cleaner with a microfibre cloth. Then water and a microfibre cloth. Then be careful not to spill the stuff in future.

    Coyote
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    +1 for WD40.

    theotherjonv
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    if it’s calcified deposits you’ll need acid to take it off. Start off getting the big bits off with a wooden spatula, and then start gentle, vinegar or kettle descalers to see if that works, before letting loose with the toilet bowl stuff. And before anything – are you sure it’s stainless. Stronger acids will corrode lower quality steels so if not sure, then don’t.

    mastiles_fanylion
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    And before anything – are you sure it’s stainless.

    I ASSUME it is true stainless – any way of checking??

    theotherjonv
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    Have you access to a metallurgical lab?

    Otherwise, anything on the spec.

    If in doubt – don’t, at least not with toilet bowl stuff.

    sturmey
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    Put a magnet to it if it sticks shit stainless or something ferrous behind like a screw or framework. If it does not stick decent stainless. If it is a satin finish youmay well get away with using a green scrubby but always go with the grain that would have to be last resort though as you may need to do the whole door to make it look ok again.

    mastiles_fanylion
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    Beginning to sound like I will be best off leaving well alone. Pity ‘cos the oven next to it has come up really nicely so it looks even worse by comparison now.

    cynic-al
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    Seriously: Cillit Bang.

    THREAD CLOSED.

    Cougar
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    Just say BANG and the calcified deposits are gone!

    Back when I worked at Megabowl, about a million years ago, they used powdered bleach to scrub down the stainless steel units in the kitchen / diner area. It always struck me as madness, but it brought them up a treat.

    iDave
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    razor blade then wd40

    Saccades
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    0.1M nitric acid – will also passivate the steel too as an added bonus (used in cheap silver cleaners).

    Might be able to get from a proper chemist too.

    mastiles_fanylion
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    Am I likely to start being tailed by MI5 if I go buying nitric acid?

    😉

    Saccades
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    nah, unless you get some toluene, sulphuric acid and a explosives reactor.

    thisisnotaspoon
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    calcified – use something acid based like window cleaner

    just a quick note, never use anything based arround chlorine (perchlorite/ate, eg bleach) as it attachs the chromium and will make it look crap, eventualy leading tothe surface becoming discooured or pitted.

    not sure what the good stainless refered to above is, 316 is good, but isnt shiny and pretty like the stuff they make kitchens out of!

    sturmey
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    not sure what the good stainless refered to above is, 316 is good, but isnt shiny and pretty like the stuff they make kitchens out of!

    316 refers to the nickel and chromium content from memory 304 grade is cheaper quality but more common than 316. The finish is down to polishing mill finish just grey looking satin finish has agrain to it then mirror finish or ba finish all the finishes can be obtained with nearly all grades of stainless it is just polishing processes

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