Silver plate cutlery and the dishwasher?

lostinrates

I am on the hoarding thread and I am planning a derichard (or de hoarding) of cutlery in the next few weeks.

I have a lot of mismatched plastic handled stuff from supermarkets/ikea etc, which we use as 'kitchen' cutlery, and silver that we use for 'dining room' cutlery and a whole heap of silver plate we never use (nor bought).

The silver plate is much nicer than the horrid plastic handled mismatch of stuff, but I need something in the kitchen that can go through the dishwasher. Will silver plate be ok?

(incidentally we have been dish washing the plastic handled stuff that is not meant to be dishwashered and it's been fine. )

Rainy-Days

No silver plate will be your worst nightmare. For the simple reason being that if it comes into contact with anything else that is metal - it does not even need to make physical contact - it will be beyond repair.

The only way to deal with silver plated, silver EPNS and silverware generally is deal with it by hand.

Sorry, there is no fast way around that!

lostinrates

Oh dear.

I might get rid of the silver plate then .

PipneyJane

LIR, as a general rule, Rainy-days is right. Never put silver-plate in the dishwasher - the chemicals and the water pressure will scour the silver right off the base metal.

However, having said that, one of my friends was given a canteen of dishwasher-safe silver cutlery as a wedding present. I have no recollection which company made it, only that they were based in Sheffield. (We all contributed. It was the main wedding present, so quite expensive. Sadly, her ex insisted she hand it over as part of the divorce settlement.)

lostinrates

Thank you.

This is oldish, so not likely to be dishwasher safe. I don't 'love it' but I do like it more than the cheap stuff we have, hence considering changing to use that as our kitchen cutlery. Now we have a dishwasher (hurrah) it seems silly to have something we cannot stick in that (though we don't have a cutlery basket but a tray, so no metal touches other metal las in a basket)

rachbc

My MIL puts hers through the dishwasher and its old and still sparkly. When I saw her do it I started putting my very old silver stuff through and its fine

lostinrates

rachbc wrote: »

My MIL puts hers through the dishwasher and its old and still sparkly. When I saw her do it I started putting my very old silver stuff through and its fine

Having read a bit about the subject last night I think silver plate might be a little more of an issue than silver.

Somepeoe say they do it with no problem, but it would be a shame to try and ruin something that someone else might love.

flomac

You can put silver plated cutlery in the dishwasher just do not put it in with any other cutlery (stainless steel), that's what our cutlery manufacturers tell us at my work. The only time there's an issue and people bring it back is if they've mixed the two in the dishwasher. Hope that helps