For those of us who love the look of silver but hate to polish it, look into Renaissance Wax. It's a high quality professional material used by museums to help preserve items. On anything that isn't for food use, Renaissance wax will preserve the shine for a year or more. It makes silver care much easier.
Thank you for this video. I just found my great,great grandmother’s silver bowl in my Dad’s closet. It had a slip of paper inside dated 1903. It’s a pretty piece and I would love to see it shiny again,
Your shinny silver is lovely! Silver maintenance is a pain but the outcome is SO lovely! I hope appreciation of silver returns in the future. Nothing compares to a beautifully set table!
I’m so happy with this process I’ve never cleaned my silver so easily before! I’m not a tech person so I don’t know how to show you a photo of how awesome my pieces turned out. But trust me, I’ve shared this video with all my friends. I will never clean silver any other way!
I have recently discovered the joy of using my Dremel tool with jewelers Rouge and buffing pads; I was able to bring a few pieces to a mirror like Polish and they are stunning ! I take care to always keep the pad moving and not to over Polish. What a joy, as I too recently received a few silver plate pieces and was thinking to myself that this feels like a new hobby as I polished them! Thank you for the video!
Nice work, it’s also nice to see someone else who appreciates these old pieces 😊 years back I purchased a pair of candle holders from a garage sale for cheap as they thought they were wrought iron 😂 so black, friends teased me about buying them, after a few hrs of polishing voila beautiful silver
Thanks ... very helpful. I needed a reminder of how to do this ... use to use the same technique when we cleaned the silver jewelry in the shop I use to manage. As a side note, some pieces like candelabras often screw apart and make it easier to dip into water. Thanks again, JS.
Just bought a 20’s silver plate flatware set at a garage sale- They are so much prettier than stainless. Now I’m hooked on adding some additional pieces . Glad to see there us a budget friendly alternative to polish!
Thank you. I prefer the shiny finish but also enjoy a little variation in color when a piece has a deeply etched pattern...down inside. I usually clean mine with silver polish. I like what you did and will try it. I agree that it can be relaxing and it's a good feeling when you finish. They look so beautiful.
this was such a relaxing video to watch - thank you for the valuable information and I am now excited to polish up my newly acquired silver plated pieces!
Great tips! I just bought a 100 year old silver carving set at auction and they need a nice cleaning and polish this makes it a lot easier than I thought
Thank you for this video! I love both versions, I wait and see how each new piece feels before i decide to shine up or not, some pieces definitely look better one way over the other. Also. That candelabra is gorgeous!!
Found a Goham bowl and was excited it might be Sterling worth $1,800! Was plated and only worth $24. I've see this trick years ago but thought it was an immediate change. Maybe you need copper in the bottom??? BTW: You have great taste and a beautiful home.
I could not even find silver polish at the store and it’s a good thing because it would have been a waste of money now that I know your method. At the Goodwill I saw a gold plated tea set and balked at the $135. price tag. In the 1970’s I had a teacher who bought a solid silver tea set and I thought it was the most elegant thing that I ever saw…..and now these days I am shocked to see how cheaply silver pieces are being sold on Ebay.
I like both versions. Nice method! I will have to try it. I only have a few silver utensils and I have polished them using toothpaste and an old soft toothbrush which works well. I would hate to polish something big that way though.
Will you be doing a video on how to best store silver pieces Also perhaps what average costs are of use pieces that you are finding out in the market. Thanks
Thanks for sharing your process & pointing out that we should polish after. I like your calm, informative manner. Question -- you, and others, advise using salt in addition to baking soda, while other videos only mention baking soda. What is the benefit of salt in the process?
From what I’ve gathered salt is handy for really stubborn areas of tarnish but to be honest just baking soda is more than enough usually. It does seem like kind of an oxymoron because salt is corrosive so it’s an interesting balance of is it corrosive to the tarnish or the plating itself. But I feel letting it corrode the tarnish and polishing it off gently afterwards is safe.
Very helpful video -- thank you. BTW, I recognize those spoons as being from Breck's once upon a time. I have a few myself. (Oops, giving away my age here.)
I would like to comment before I do this. I have to say that I tried it once with the baking soda and hot water and foil and it did not work, but I see you have an extra ingredient which is the salt. I’ll be trying that in checking to see if it works once again thank you for the information.
So glad I found this video, cleaning out my grandma’s attic after her passing, and there’s lots of silver pieces. What kind of cloth do you use for the polishing? And how did you get into the “nooks and crannies” of the more elaborate pieces? Thanks!
Can store silver in airtight bags with a strip of silver protective paper . Think Macys has them or used back in the day. Treated flannel cloth protect silver also.
Instead of leaving it in the mixture, could I possibly dip a toothbrush in and then scrub the item? I have a silver jewelry box that needs cleaning, but it has a velvet lining that I don’t want to get wet. I’ve used this method on jewelry before but never scrubbed it manually so I can’t decide.
Thanks for this video & sharing your knowledge and know-how. I have some old S&P shakers of my great-grandparents to do this on. They're similar to the ones you had on your table. Are there any tips or tricks I should know regarding cleaning these? Also, to answer your question, I prefer the UNtarnished version of silver & silverplate because I want to imagine (in my case) what the S&P shakers looked like when my great-grandparents received them as a gift.
I think the way you did it left a little of the lowlights on the pieces. I like that. Silver needs the dark part in the grooves to bring out the pattern. Have you ever considered washing soda instead of baking soda?
I cleaned my silver plate and rinsed before drying. Placed them.on a towel on my butcher block counter. Omg. The tarnish is now.iny counter. Baking soda, hydrogen peroxide did a little to take it out. How can I put the color back in the areas that are fading. Coverr your counters!
I have inherited a Dutch spoon from my Oma. Think it's silver plated. It looks sort of golden with tarnish. Worried that will damage it if try polish. I also live in an area that tends to tarnish silver (geothermal).
I followed directions basically the same as this but the site called for leaving them in the pot for 30 min. After the 30 min I took the items out and rubbed them with clean microfiber cloth and to my dismay some of the plating came off to reveal copper 😢
Does anyone know if this method works on silver plate that's really yellow? I suspect a previous owner may have used tarn X. The more I've looked into this, people have said tarn X will make it really yellow It's otherwise very uniformly shiny
Does anyone recommend to eat in a silver plate or have a tea silver service? I have a lot of porcelain but sadly if you are not carefull it tend to broke. Anyone recommend it?
Thats cool, I looked up this video to clean an item and it's THE EXACT same teapot you picked up.
Me too! 🤣
For those of us who love the look of silver but hate to polish it, look into Renaissance Wax. It's a high quality professional material used by museums to help preserve items. On anything that isn't for food use, Renaissance wax will preserve the shine for a year or more. It makes silver care much easier.
I will look into that. I don't use it for serving, just display so I guess this will work for me :D
We love that you are taking care of your Grandma's spoons❤️❤️
I hope she’s happy about it!
Thank you for this video. I just found my great,great grandmother’s silver bowl in my Dad’s closet. It had a slip of paper inside dated 1903. It’s a pretty piece and I would love to see it shiny again,
Your shinny silver is lovely! Silver maintenance is a pain but the outcome is SO lovely! I hope appreciation of silver returns in the future. Nothing compares to a beautifully set table!
Thank you!
I’m so happy with this process I’ve never cleaned my silver so easily before! I’m not a tech person so I don’t know how to show you a photo of how awesome my pieces turned out. But trust me, I’ve shared this video with all my friends. I will never clean silver any other way!
I have recently discovered the joy of using my Dremel tool with jewelers Rouge and buffing pads; I was able to bring a few pieces to a mirror like Polish and they are stunning ! I take care to always keep the pad moving and not to over Polish. What a joy, as I too recently received a few silver plate pieces and was thinking to myself that this feels like a new hobby as I polished them! Thank you for the video!
Thanks Andrew. This has been very helpful. I really like your clear and straightforward presentation style.
Nice work, it’s also nice to see someone else who appreciates these old pieces 😊 years back I purchased a pair of candle holders from a garage sale for cheap as they thought they were wrought iron 😂 so black, friends teased me about buying them, after a few hrs of polishing voila beautiful silver
Glad you found some treasures underneath the grime!
Thanks ... very helpful. I needed a reminder of how to do this ... use to use the same technique when we cleaned the silver jewelry in the shop I use to manage. As a side note, some pieces like candelabras often screw apart and make it easier to dip into water. Thanks again, JS.
Excellent tutorial - I like the shiny renewed look. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Just bought a 20’s silver plate flatware set at a garage sale- They are so much prettier than stainless. Now I’m hooked on adding some additional pieces . Glad to see there us a budget friendly alternative to polish!
Thank you. I prefer the shiny finish but also enjoy a little variation in color when a piece has a deeply etched pattern...down inside. I usually clean mine with silver polish. I like what you did and will try it. I agree that it can be relaxing and it's a good feeling when you finish. They look so beautiful.
I love the feeling of freshly polished and washed silver. I don't mind the occasional work to keep it looking great.
this was such a relaxing video to watch - thank you for the valuable information and I am now excited to polish up my newly acquired silver plated pieces!
Great tips! I just bought a 100 year old silver carving set at auction and they need a nice cleaning and polish this makes it a lot easier than I thought
Thank you for this video! I love both versions, I wait and see how each new piece feels before i decide to shine up or not, some pieces definitely look better one way over the other. Also. That candelabra is gorgeous!!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
I'm always a fan of the tarnished patina of old silver and silver plate, but I did enjoy your video.
Thank you for this easy way to bring my plated items back to life. I like it shiny.
Great teaching video! Just in time for the coming holidays. THANK YOU!!
Your grandmother would love you!!! After cleaning I use Windex to polish & shine. Good video!
Great suggestion!
On some pieces with designs, it looks good to have some dark areas, but this technique is wonderful! Saves a lot of time. 👍
Came here to say this lol. But yes, shiny is nice on occasion, but antiquated pieces really add additional depth and character to items with detailing
Found a Goham bowl and was excited it might be Sterling worth $1,800! Was plated and only worth $24. I've see this trick years ago but thought it was an immediate change. Maybe you need copper in the bottom??? BTW: You have great taste and a beautiful home.
I think the polished and the antiquated look are equally nice! Depends on intended use 😊
Very helpful, I like the pieces either way… However, this has been really helpful for some antique silver plate, Rogers vintage pattern silver plate
Thank you for the video. Very helpful for me to use for my moms vintage sivlerware.
Very helpful I have so many pieces I need to Clean and Polish.
I think I prefer the shiny look
I like both but it is so rewarding to get them nice and shiny! Thanks for the comment Katherine :)
Love the polished look
This is a relaxing activity, agreed
Nice job !
Once polished, if washed once or twice a month in warm water and dish detergent will keep the pieces shining.
Thank you soo much for the video. My antique silver is gorgeous 😍
Wow they came up really nice. I like the shiny
Great job…. You simplify the process 👍
I could not even find silver polish at the store and it’s a good thing because it would have been a waste of money now that I know your method. At the Goodwill I saw a gold plated tea set and balked at the $135. price tag. In the 1970’s I had a teacher who bought a solid silver tea set and I thought it was the most elegant thing that I ever saw…..and now these days I am shocked to see how cheaply silver pieces are being sold on Ebay.
I find silver polish at the jewelry counter at department stores and probably also available at jewelry stores.
I like both versions. Nice method! I will have to try it. I only have a few silver utensils and I have polished them using toothpaste and an old soft toothbrush which works well. I would hate to polish something big that way though.
simple process, and the results sure are impressive!
Thank you Atomic Pancake 🥞:)
Polished!!!! Thank you for this video! ❤
Thank you Abby!
Looks great. I like the shine
Looks amazing! Thank you.. personally I prefer the shiny pieces but some pieces look great with the patina… depends on the use I guess.
Will you be doing a video on how to best store silver pieces Also perhaps what average costs are of use pieces that you are finding out in the market. Thanks
Good job, Andrew.
Thanks for sharing your process & pointing out that we should polish after. I like your calm, informative manner.
Question -- you, and others, advise using salt in addition to baking soda, while other videos only mention baking soda. What is the benefit of salt in the process?
From what I’ve gathered salt is handy for really stubborn areas of tarnish but to be honest just baking soda is more than enough usually. It does seem like kind of an oxymoron because salt is corrosive so it’s an interesting balance of is it corrosive to the tarnish or the plating itself. But I feel letting it corrode the tarnish and polishing it off gently afterwards is safe.
Thank you! I have a hotel coffee pot I pushed to the back of the shelf.
You bet!
Thanks Andrew
Very helpful video -- thank you. BTW, I recognize those spoons as being from Breck's once upon a time. I have a few myself. (Oops, giving away my age here.)
I would like to comment before I do this. I have to say that I tried it once with the baking soda and hot water and foil and it did not work, but I see you have an extra ingredient which is the salt. I’ll be trying that in checking to see if it works once again thank you for the information.
Thank you! I love the shine! Your grandma would be thrilled! Have you tried the anti tarnish storage bags?
So glad I found this video, cleaning out my grandma’s attic after her passing, and there’s lots of silver pieces. What kind of cloth do you use for the polishing? And how did you get into the “nooks and crannies” of the more elaborate pieces? Thanks!
Just what I was looking for. thank you
I like the antiquated look , believe it or not .
Can store silver in airtight bags with a strip of silver protective paper . Think Macys has them or used back in the day. Treated flannel cloth protect silver also.
Treated with what? Are you meaning a piece of a silver polishing cloth?
What does the aluminum foil do?
What a nice video, thank you for sharing!
Looks great!
Instead of leaving it in the mixture, could I possibly dip a toothbrush in and then scrub the item? I have a silver jewelry box that needs cleaning, but it has a velvet lining that I don’t want to get wet. I’ve used this method on jewelry before but never scrubbed it manually so I can’t decide.
Great instructions for this process and looks pretty easy! Are you using a regular towel for polishing or a specific polishing cloth? Thanks!
Great video. Thank you so much! It works great.
Enjoyed your video mate 👍
Thanks mate!
I think silver is beautiful in any of its forms, but personally, I prefer the tarnished blackish and shiny stage.
What's the purpose of the aluminum foil?... since the first pot you use to dip the silverware into seems to be made of aluminium?
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excellent.. thank you!
Good job 😊 thank you!
Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for this video & sharing your knowledge and know-how. I have some old S&P shakers of my great-grandparents to do this on. They're similar to the ones you had on your table. Are there any tips or tricks I should know regarding cleaning these? Also, to answer your question, I prefer the UNtarnished version of silver & silverplate because I want to imagine (in my case) what the S&P shakers looked like when my great-grandparents received them as a gift.
is it food safe even when the silver plate is coming off?
I think the way you did it left a little of the lowlights on the pieces. I like that. Silver needs the dark part in the grooves to bring out the pattern.
Have you ever considered washing soda instead of baking soda?
So much better than Wright's Sliver polish!
good info! and side note - the only thing hotter than the water is him! such a cutie!! :)
I cleaned my silver plate and rinsed before drying. Placed them.on a towel on my butcher block counter. Omg. The tarnish is now.iny counter. Baking soda, hydrogen peroxide did a little to take it out. How can I put the color back in the areas that are fading. Coverr your counters!
Now how do you get the dark grooves out of the candelabra you've still left? Toothbrush? Drill polisher? Leave it?
Thank you, great info.
shinier - definitely!
They both are nice!
At what point do you include silver metal polish? Is it all non-abrasive cleaning cloth?
I have inherited a Dutch spoon from my Oma. Think it's silver plated. It looks sort of golden with tarnish. Worried that will damage it if try polish. I also live in an area that tends to tarnish silver (geothermal).
rinse with water before polish, remove any salt.
Thank you very much
Is that a polishing cloth or just a soft rag?
Wow I like your collections.
Might mention the candelabra is screwed together and may be easily disassembled for cleaning.
What is used for polishing ..??
Does this also help with water marks on silver plate?
Does this work for EMESS silver plated also. I love the shiny look
thank you!
I followed directions basically the same as this but the site called for leaving them in the pot for 30 min. After the 30 min I took the items out and rubbed them with clean microfiber cloth and to my dismay some of the plating came off to reveal copper 😢
Thanks so much! Shiny for me.
That’s very good way to remove tarnish , is it safe for Queens Anne silver ware too ??
Thanks, very cool channel.
Don’t we have to rinse it ?
Shiny, for sure!
Thank you- subscribed 😊
It helps to use a toothbrush for the Candelabrum.
Do you know whats your cabdelabra brand? Im looking for it
Try Zildjian cymbal polish. You’ll be absolutely amazed.
Great suggestion!
Does anyone know if this method works on silver plate that's really yellow? I suspect a previous owner may have used tarn X. The more I've looked into this, people have said tarn X will make it really yellow
It's otherwise very uniformly shiny
Polished looks better. Thanks
how often do you typically need to do this?
Why not rinse the salt and soda off?
Can I do this on a Sheffield Plate teapot with a wooden handle and lid finial?
What kind of cloth did you rub the silver with.
how do you keep those IMUSA pots so clean?
Does anyone recommend to eat in a silver plate or have a tea silver service? I have a lot of porcelain but sadly if you are not carefull it tend to broke. Anyone recommend it?
I've got a mental clock how would I go about cleaning it? I'd have to se d you a image of it