{"id":18360,"date":"2016-01-10T21:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T02:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18360"},"modified":"2016-01-10T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T02:48:59","slug":"aluminum-polishing-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/aluminum-polishing-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum Polishing Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/various_bits\/IMG_8833.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bialetti Moka, having been corroded in the dishwasher. Right side was polished with water and potassium bitartrate (cream of tartar). It didn't make much of a difference.\" src=\"\/gallery\/d\/109679-2\/IMG_8833.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while back I stupidly put my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bialetti.com\/www.bialetti.com\/coffee\/stovetop\/moka-express-c-1_7_22.html\">Bialetti Moka<\/a>\u00a0in the dishwasher. Due to the alkaline detergent it discolored and pitted, no longer looking bright and shiny. In an effort to\u00a0restore its look I\u00a0researched restoring aluminum cookware that&#8217;d been washed in a similar manner and found\u00a0that polishing with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potassium_bitartrate\">potassium bitartate (cream of tartar)<\/a>\u00a0should work well.<\/p>\n<p>In the image above the left panel was the post-dishwasher state, and the right is after a few minutes of polishing with a mixture of equal parts water and potassium bitartate. While a bit of yellowing was removed the aluminum was not returned to its previous shiny state. The appearance change was actually minimal enough that I didn&#8217;t bother polishing the rest of the Moka.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine I could remove more of the\u00a0discoloration and pitting by using some proper metal polish and maybe a buffing wheel, but I&#8217;m not going to bother. While the Moka still works fine I was hoping for an easy return to the original shiny appearance. It looks like the recommendation of using cream of tartar didn&#8217;t do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I stupidly put my Bialetti Moka\u00a0in the dishwasher. Due to the alkaline detergent it discolored and pitted, no longer looking bright and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/aluminum-polishing-disappointment\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aluminum Polishing Disappointment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-food","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18360\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}