Saturday, February 27, 2010

Is there a way to make my crystal wine glasses clear again?

Over time, my lovely crystal glasses have gone all milky. I did wash them in the dishwasher which usually turns out sparkling results, but it's had the opposite effect. Any way of making them clear again?Is there a way to make my crystal wine glasses clear again?
Try soaking them in a vinegar solution and then hand washing in hot water. If it's limescale build up the vinegar will see to it.Is there a way to make my crystal wine glasses clear again?
Soak items in undiluted white vinegar.
Simply fill the glasses with tepid water and drop a steradent tablet or powder (this is used for cleaning false teeth), leave overnight and rinse off. Should clear the problem
Crystal Wine Glasses are definitely the most elegant of glasses and they know it, standing tall and acting as if they are the Holy Grail. Because of this, they require a lot of tender loving care and they need more attention than other types of dinnerware. If they don’t receive it they will likely rebel, forfeiting their ability to enhance the taste of wine and ruining it in the process.





Crystal is porous and can absorb flavors — particularly soapy flavors — with relative ease. If this absorption happens, you might have a clean wine glass, but you will also have a wine glass that alters the flavor of your wine, adding in a dollop of detergent.





Use Washing Soda: Washing soda — and baking soda works too, but not as well — is a type of cleaning soda that is designed for use on glass in a gentle, but complete, manner. It is made to be a cleaner that won’t be absorbed by crystal. Most grocery stores sell it in the detergent aisle.





Use the Force of Lukewarm Water: Like non-crystal wine glasses, crystal wine glasses can be washed simply with water. Making sure the water is lukewarm in temperature, rinse the wine glass repeatedly. If the wine won’t come out, add just a drop of very mild detergent and gently wash with a soft cloth. Never use a steel or wool pad; your crystal wine glasses will never speak to you again.





Don’t Use the Dishwasher: While the Maytag man would probably assert that dishwashers are safe enough for crystal wineglasses, the truth of the matter is the dishwasher can ruin the wine glass one of two ways. While one of these ways simply involves placing your wine glass in the dishwasher, allowing it to run, and then opening it up only to find that your one crystal wine glasses are now several pieces of crystal wine glass. The other way a dishwasher can ruin it is by allowing detergent to bake into the crystal. This baking causes the wine glass to cloud, ruining it and refuting the old “crystal clear” saying.





Place Over Boiling Water: The experts at the Riedel Wine Glass Company suggest that to make your crystal wine glass really shine, hold the glass over a pot of boiling water, allowing the steam to cover it. Once this “steam bath” is finished, simply dry the wine glasses with a linen towel.





Taking care of dinnerware can be no fun: the easily aggravated wine drinker may simply refuse to give their dinnerware proper care, telling their wine collection to kiss their glass. But, taking proper care of wine glasses is elemental in making sure the wine glasses hold their ability to add to wine’s elegance, never losing their edge and beating a regular old cup by a stem.
Hopefully the issue is just lime/scale and then the vinegar soak will work. However, they could be etched and in that case it's too late.





In the future keep nice crystal out of the dishwasher. I used to always add 1/2 cup white vinegar to dishwasher load just to counter the very hard water where I used to live. That really helped make the washer much more effective. Just get the gigantic bottle of plain wrap vinegar. My dishwasher lasted longer too.
warm vinegar or lemon juice will do the trick it also removes lime scale great for glass too
well the only way I know %26amp; that works . If the glass is badly stained with lime scale deposits, fill the glass with distilled water , leave like this for 1 week then brush of crust it will form with a toothbrush.I f they are only slightly stained ,then leave over night in a mixture of washing up liquid and a small amount of ammonia
Keep them filled with Red Wine then nobody will notice

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