We have a stainless steel kitchen sink. I love it because it’s durable, but it can start to look really dirty after a while! Wanting to give it a good cleaning, I researched the best method. Here is a before shot of what our sink looked like. Of course, I “clean” the sink, but I wanted to do a deep cleaning of the stainless. You can see the discoloration below. Here are the steps for how to clean a stainless steel sink!
Step One:
Rinse the sink with water so it becomes wet. Shake baking soda all over the sink.
Step Two:
Next, without running any water, scrub the sink with a non-abrasive scrubber. I keep this one from Walmart under my sink for cleaning. Look how quickly this started working! I’m excited and grossed out all at the same time.
Step Three:
After you have scrubbed, spray vinegar all over the sink. You can add this right on top of the gunk you have already scraped off. The vinegar acts as a disinfectant. I find it really handy to just keep a spray bottle of vinegar under the sink too.
Final Step for Cleaning a Stainless Steel Sink:
After spraying the vinegar, it is time to rinse! That’s it! Now you can easily clean your stainless steel sink whenever you need to with non-harmful ingredients you already have on hand! Cheap and easy, I love it. Look at that shine!
Updated 2023: We have a remodeled kitchen now and I still use this method even though we don’t have a stainless steel sink! The same method works for deep cleaning the sink and the sink tray we now have!
If you want to check out the details of our new sink area, click here.
This method was super simple and it works. It’s the little things, right?! Hope this helped you learn how to clean a stainless steel sink! XO