Set Yourself Free With These Spring Cleaning Life Hacks

Clean Your Knives with Cream of Tartar

Cream of tartar will pull tarnish off of high-carbon knives. Even if you have a lower carbon knife, a long enough treatment with cream of tartar will leave them mirror clean. This will not do anything to preserve your knife though, so proper maintenance is recommended afterward. 

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The More You Know

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