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Dishes with stains

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PinkandYellow ↓

Sat, May 05 2007, 3:31 pm

I borrowed a dish from someone that had beet salad in it. now I'm trying to clean it but its a little stained and I can't get out some spots. obviously I can't return it to her like that. any advise on how I can get it perfectly clean?
thanks.

Seraph

Sat, May 05 2007, 4:17 pm

What's it made out? Because depending on what the dish is made out of, is what you can use to clean it...

chen ↓

Sat, May 05 2007, 10:36 pm

First try scrubbing with plain baking soda as a scouring powder. Just pour it on, add a bit of water, and scrub. If that doesn't work, bleach, either staright or diluted, should do the trick. This will do for plastic, glass, ceramic or corelle. Do not try this on silver or aluminum.

btMOMtoFFBs

Sun, May 06 2007, 12:32 am

Try the Magic Eraser sponge - this gets everything off! Do you have these American cleaning supplies in Israel?

If not, try rubbing it with half a lemon and letting it sit for an hour before washing off.

Good luck!

justanothermother

Sun, May 06 2007, 9:43 am

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↑ PinkandYellow ↓

Sun, May 06 2007, 10:15 am

justanothermother wrote:

If the above doesn't work, try powdered Chlorox and scouring pad. If the dish has a painted design, don't do this on the design, it can take it right off.

the bleach and baking soda didn't work. whats powdered chlorox?
do you think I can just tell her sorry and buy her something similar?

aussiegal

Sun, May 06 2007, 10:47 am

I don't think you mentioned what kind of dish it was, but I know that when I make carrot salad in the food processor and the white plastic part gets stained with orange, I get rid of the orange stains by rubbing oil on it. so..if its a plasticy kind of dish, trying rubbing oil on it.

greenfire

Sun, May 06 2007, 11:18 am

let it soak ... with hot water and comet ... and then scrub again ...

chocolate moose

Tue, May 08 2007, 4:07 pm

so - what happened ?

↑ PinkandYellow

Wed, May 09 2007, 12:51 am

nothing happened. I tried everything, seperately and altogether, soaking it and not, and the stains are still there. I'm hoping they were there before she gave it to me. I'll find out tonite when I return it.

↑ chen

Wed, May 09 2007, 8:31 pm

was it a ceramic dish with crazed (cracked) glazing? if so, the stain may have seeped into the cracks and under the glaze, in which case nothing will get it out. You would know, though, b/c it would look darker in the cracks.

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