one of the best ways to keep your silver tarnish free is to actually use it often that said I really don't feel comfortable eating my TV dinner on a Tuesday night with silver plated cover when it comes time for Thanksgiving usually my silver look something like this and in a mad dash to get it polished before my parents come over I discovered this amazing trip and I'm going to share it with you silver can be spectacular but tarnish is terrible how does silver get tarnished why thought you'd never ask so tarnishes cause when silver comes into contact with hydrogen sulfide in its environment foods like mustard mayo and onions actually contain quite a bit of sulfur so you really want to keep them away from your silver if you don't want it to tarnish faster rubber gloves can also make your silver tarnish today I'm going to show you how to make a silver dip it's basically an electro chemical bath that will remove the tarnish almost immediately from your silver and this isn't just for silver cutlery you can also do it with your jewelry if you're in a rush to get out the door basically what we're starting with is a glass dish avoid stainless steel unfortunately silver and stainless steel don't get along very well and then you want to line it with aluminum foil aluminum foil is essential to the success here don't try to use plastic wrap into this dish you'll be adding 2 tablespoons of baking soda and finally into the dish you're gonna pour a pot of hot water enough to cover whatever silver you're going to be putting in it hot water will just make it go faster you could actually use cold water but it's not nearly as effective and now we place our silver items into the back no it's really important that the silver actually be touching the tin foil back essential to the success of this experiment so the aluminum foil actually attracts the tarnish by transferring the sulfur atoms from the silver to the aluminum now if your tarnish is bad enough you can actually see the black on the aluminum one the experiment is finished pretty cool ok so we've allowed 10 minutes to a lap and have a look at the results what a difference I love this trip and if you have something that's even more tarnish you can leave it in for just a little while longer and it will do all the work for you and that's what master key is really low fit do you have a household tip everyone should know share it in the comments section below I'm Sara Lynn and you're watching the domestic geek on Coral don't forget to subscribe and we look for you next time sayonara you