Stainless steel sink. Not shiny anymore. Are enamel ones better/easier to keep looking nice?

[princessmel]

I clean it and dry it and it still looks yukky.

Do they just stop being sparkly after a while?
Its not that old. about 4 years.

have you tried barkeepers friend? my friend swears by it. my butler sink needs bleaching every day btw

No, never heard of it. I'll look.

I was thinking of a regular style sink with a drainer but in enamel. I think its called that. Its hard and white and baths come in it!

BLEACH

Fill sink totally with water, stop up the overflows so that the water goes over the drainer area too if possible

Add a pint of bleach

leave over night

ZING !!!!!

I've done that before mp Maybe I should have said the draining board too. Thats the worst.

How about porcelain or soapstone? Just looked on a kitchen website and they said enamel is hard to keep nice.

i have a gorgeous ceramin sink, but i put the grill in to steep one night and now have prange rusty marks that wont come off it..so not as hardyt as idhave thought?

My mother has had the same stainless steel sink and drainer for the last 40+ years, and it is always nice and shiny. I think that you just need to find the right cleaning product (I've no idea what she uses, probably something very eco friendly like bicarb!)

hmmm thats what I thought.

BarKeepers Friend is the business. It's eco friendly and really works with little elbow grease - I use it on my stainless steel hob as well as my sink, and on my bathroom sinks and cast iron bath.

I used to have a butler sink in my old cottage and it got scratched and marked with rust. You have to use a washing-up bowl inside really.