According to TikTok, a ball of aluminum foil in your dishwasher is a great way to make your silverware shine. As you can imagine, I had my doubts. Either way, I’m a woman of the people—and if the people want shiny silverware, I’m going to find out if putting aluminum foil in the dishwasher is the easiest way to do it. I’ve followed the instructions from many TikToks and am here to present my findings.
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According to the hackers and Cleantokkers, the idea is to roll up some aluminum foil and put it in the cutlery holder in your dishwasher. This is easier than most hacks, because it only requires one ingredient and a small adjustment that is super simple to do, so that is already something that works in this trick's favor.
However, when I opened my dishwasher, I had a few questions. First, the average cutlery holder has multiple compartments. Does the aluminum foil in just one compartment affect the cutlery in the other compartments? My compartments were also smaller than average. Would that affect the effectiveness of the technology?
I watched more videos and discovered that it’s not a physical shine, but a chemical shine. So a wad of aluminum foil in one compartment doesn’t just affect the silverware it shares the space with; it affects, according to the proponents of this trend, all the silverware around it.
