Re: Chemically removing tea stains from china

farooq_w_at_hotmail.com
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: 23 Nov 2004 20:20:29 -0800

Maarten D. de Jong wrote:
> My girlfriend has a beautiful china tea pot which is proving very
diffi-
> cult to physically clean on the inside. As a result, there is an
increasing
> amount of tea stains building up there. Is there a way to remove
these with
> chemical means? Even a partial removal would be an improvement at
this stage.
>
>
> With kind regards,
> Maarten

Ordinary laundry chlorine bleach diluted with water works perfectly in
few minutes. If the word chlorine bleach is sounding too toxic for food
utensils, you can use oxygen bleaches (eg Oxi-Clean) but they require
boiling water for effective action. Fill the pot with boiling water and
add a half tea-spoon of oxygen bleach. It takes a longer time around 30
minutes to do the job. However there is no odor problem afterwards just
as a chlorine bleach would leave.