Stainless steel appliances in your home can lose their attractiveness pretty fast. All it takes is multiple grease and fingerprint stains. Then your home is deprived of that modern look.
Thankfully, a cleaning expert on Tiktok has shared cost-effective and practical solutions to erasing these stains from your appliances and restoring their sleekness. Let’s dig in.

A TikTok video shared by a user, Michelle (@easycleaningwithmichelle) has wowed viewers by demonstrating a magical cleaning procedure. The video with the caption “Bye-Bye Stains” showed how a stainless steel stove lost all its smudge in a few seconds.
All the stains disappeared with a few swipes of a sprayed cloth. Michelle explained the what and how of the cleaning process.

Most of the time, the solutions we seek are right before us. There must have been gasps and wide eyes from viewers after Michelle explained that the secret behind the cleaning was vinegar. Many will probably discover for the first time that vinegar cleans stainless steel.
According to Michelle, vinegar is a potent cleaning agent. The liquid will clean your stainless steel appliances and restore their sparkle in no time.
The Versatility of Vinegar For Cooking

People know vinegar as the junior partner to salad dressings. Vinegar in its White form has a harsh and sharp flavor, but alongside the Apple Cider variant, it is a popular baking additive. Vinegar also glazes vegetables, pickles cucumbers, and onions, and produces Japanese dipping sauces and condiments. Adding a teaspoon of vinegar to your pie sauce will deliver some of the flakiest crusts ever.

By every definition, vinegar will qualify as a multi-tasking cleaning product. Its range of cleaning services is not only vast but pretty exciting. You can use vinegar to sanitize surfaces and whiten windows.
There is a long line of things vinegar can clean in the home. From toilets, shower heads, glassware, and countertops to floors, the list goes on and on.

If you love vinegar that can be used for both cooking and cleaning, then go for distilled white vinegar. It’s also pretty easy on your pockets and will help you avoid using harsh commercial chemicals.
Basic white vinegar, which can have up to 18% more acetic acid, is more useful for cleaning than cooking. Acetic acid is the major cleaning ingredient in vinegar.

As we’ve previously mentioned, vinegar contains acetic acid and the acid provides most of its cleaning properties. The liquid can contain an acid strength as high as a pH of 2.4.
This high level of acidity enables it to easily break down mineral deposits and stains. Of course, vinegar is diluted, making it friendly to both your skin and most surfaces.

Considering its wide usage, it would have been pretty disastrous if vinegar were harmful to the environment. Thankfully, vinegar is environmentally friendly for several reasons. It’s natural, biodegradable, and non-toxic, unlike the regular stainless steel cleaners. In addition, vinegar has earned an “A” rating from the Environmental Working Group for its low cancer risk in contrast to traditional cleaners, some of which are rated “F.”

Saving money is easy when you rely on vinegar for your house cleaning, especially for those stainless steel appliances. Name-brand stainless steel cleaners will cost you in the region of $5 for a one-ounce can. You spend way less on vinegar.
You can get a gallon of vinegar for as low as $5. So, it’s not just the cleaning power you benefit from. Vinegar is also budget-friendly.

Let’s stop you right there, just before you get to thinking that vinegar is a good cleaner for every type of surface. Never use vinegar on natural stone surfaces such as marble or granite because it’s gonna etch the stone, that is, cause it to wear away.
Also avoid using vinegar on electronics like laptops and tablets, egg spills or stains, hardwood floors, or cast iron and aluminum cookware.

The temptation to mix vinegar with other cleaning agents is high, but you need to exercise great caution. Vinegar doesn’t get along with several cleaning agents.
Don’t mix vinegar with Ammonia, Bleach, Baking soda, or hydrogen peroxide in a closed container. Such mixtures produce toxic and dangerous products.

To get streak-free and sparkly stainless steel appliances, apply vinegar to the appliance with a microfiber cloth. Afterward, wipe the stainless steel grain to eliminate fingerprints and smudges.
You should get the same result as Michelle’s TikTok video. Some of the comments under the video were, “Nice shine,” and “Wow, I need to try that.”