How often should you clean fine china?
That's an excellent question and we're going to talk about that today.
Hi there.
I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask a House Cleaner.
This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question
and I get to help you find an answer.
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So if it's near Thanksgiving time and you have a whole bunch of fine china you want
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Okay.
So today's question comes from a homeowner who wants to know how often she should clean
her fine china that, let me add a caveat, is inside a closed china cabinet.
All right.
So the answer to that question is please don't.
Leave it alone.
Every time you pick up the china and you wash it, you risk cracking or breaking it.
So if it's behind a glass cabinet door, don't mess with it.
Supposing those dishes were clean when they were put in there, just leave them alone.
Now, for the average person, there are things in our life that consume our time, and so
to go in and just wash fine china for the kicks, nobody has time for that.
And so my suggestion is don't do it.
It's not bothering anybody, it's not hurting anything.
If you're not going to use the china, leave it alone.
Just don't even go inside the china cabinet.
Now, what I do recommend is that you occasionally, in every couple of months, wash the glass
on the in and the outside of the cabinet doors.
Because if there is any humidity in the air, or if you cook things like bacon in your house,
there's going to be a fine layer of grease or a film that goes across the top of the
glass in your china cabinet.
So you do want to clean the glass, and if you have your china inside one of those cabinets
that's above your stove, when the little vent from the microwave opens and all that grease
and stuff goes up there, it's going to get on the glass
that's above that stove or above your microwave.
So you want to keep that glass clean, and there are a couple of ways to clean the glass.
There are different cleaning products like Sprayway is just a spray.
It's an aerosol spray that you spray on the glass and it's a foam, and it doesn't drain
like Windex or something.
It doesn't leak down through the little wooden brackets that piece the windows together.
So it just sprays on there and it cuts the grease, and you can use a paper towel to wipe
it off, or you can use damp microfiber clothe.
So either of those will clean that glass without the leaking or whatever, and it will keep
the front of your cabinets looking nice.
Okay.
So when it is time to clean your crystal, and your glassware and your china, a couple
of things that you want to be aware of is you can clean it up to about three weeks before
you're going to use it.
So it doesn't have to be the day before, about three weeks before and it will still be clean.
What you want to do is you want to take out very carefully, a stack of china,
and you want to take in your kitchen sink, you want to use warm water.
Don't use hot water and don't use cold water because a severe change in temperature could
actually crack your china.
So, you want to be very careful with it.
Now, my suggestion is that you take a bath towel and you put it in the bottom of the
sink to protect the glass from hitting the corner of the sink whether it's stainless
steel or porcelain.
You don't want to chip your china.
So by having a damp towel at the bottom, it's going to kind of protect your glassware if
it does hit the bottom of your sink.
So what you want to do is you want to put in a squirt, not just a couple of drops,
but a squirt of dishwashing soap, and you want to put about a third of a cup of vinegar in
there, because the vinegar is going to cut any of the greases and it's also going to
remove any spots that are on your china.
So that they drip dry, it will automatically remove the spots, so that you don't have to
dry them and then leave a film or debris on the dishes art.
Okay.
So, you want a dish drainer, and you want warm water with a squirt of dish soap,
and about a third of a cup of vinegar.
Now you want to rinse each of the plates, or each of the bowls, or each of the crystals by hand.
Because if you try to put them in the dishwasher, again, they could get cracked, they could
get chipped, and a lot of fine china has like the gold embossing on it and that can come
off with the heat of the dishwasher.
So you don't want to do that either.
So handwash all of the dishes, and this is where it takes a little bit of time.
At the same time, this is a good time to also polish your silver, your copper and your brass.
Now if you're having a fancy dinner, it's a red letter day, you're having a celebration
of a graduation or a retirement, it's somebody's birthday, it's Thanksgiving, whatever the
occasion is, there are serving trays, and platters, and things that you're going to
want to use.
And so you want to polish all of those at the same time.
And this makes a good upsell for a house cleaner who is maybe slow during the month of November,
or something during Thanksgiving, or that just wants to sell this as a separate package.
This might take an hour or two hours of your time.
You just come in and wash all of this stuff, and then the customers are ready to rock and roll.
So that's a good way to do that.
But you want to just polish everything, put everything back, so that everything is ready
just to bring out and serve.
Now when you're polishing your brass and silver and stuff like that, you can just use a damp
microfiber cloth.
There are chemicals and I will link to those in the show notes, they do an excellent job
polishing brass and copper and stainless steel or silver, and you want to make sure that
you use the proper tool or the proper detergent for that proper item.
If you use something that it's not designed for it, it could actually taint or ruin the
finish on those items.
So you want to be very careful about those.
But a damp microfiber cloth is an excellent choice to just kind of polish everything,
bring everything up to snuff, and then you're ready for your special occasion.
So how often you need to do it, not very often at all.
Lots of people don't use their fine china except for holidays or birthdays.
And so if you're only using it once or twice a year, only wash it once or twice a year.
My suggestion is don't create extra work for yourself.
If you have extra time and nothing to do, go spend the time reading a good book or
spend the time with your family.
There are other ways to spend your time than cleaning china that's already clean,
that nobody's using.
All right.
That's my two cents for today and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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