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I am fed up with my cutlery coming out of the dishwasher covered in rust spots. Anyone know why it does this and is there a solution please.
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Eh? Salt is well-known for its corrosive effect on silver, on salt shakers and salt cellars, for example. As to stainless steel rusting, it's down to quality, as already stated. I remember a diving magazine article on stainless steel divers knives that were tested by being left lying in salt seawater. Out of about twenty knives, only around four, typically the more expensive, didn't show signs of rust after some hours.
Just a technical comment:
There are two types of stainless steel which are used for cutlery manufacture.
One grade, which is used for knives and is harder and capable of being sharpened is somewhat less corrosion resistant than the slightly softer grade which is typically used for spoons and forks.
If you check your stainless steel cutlery with a simple magnet you'll see that the knives attract the magnet whereas the spoons and forks don't.
If it is only your knives that are showing the rust spots then I suggest that you wash these in the old fashioned way and only put the spoons and forks in the dishwasher.
Incidentally, "stainless" steel doesn't mean it doesn't stain. It just stains less!
There are two types of stainless steel which are used for cutlery manufacture.
One grade, which is used for knives and is harder and capable of being sharpened is somewhat less corrosion resistant than the slightly softer grade which is typically used for spoons and forks.
If you check your stainless steel cutlery with a simple magnet you'll see that the knives attract the magnet whereas the spoons and forks don't.
If it is only your knives that are showing the rust spots then I suggest that you wash these in the old fashioned way and only put the spoons and forks in the dishwasher.
Incidentally, "stainless" steel doesn't mean it doesn't stain. It just stains less!