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Use this easy method to restore your dishes to their former glory.

scratched white plate

Simply Recipes / Myo Quinn

While annoying, this is normal.

Cutlery marks can happen on cheap and expensive dinnerware alike.

This is just an unavoidable hazard of actuallyusingyour dishes.

A bottle of Bar Keepers Friend soft cleanser

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The back of your regular sponge will do, says Campbell.

Admire your hard work, and use those dishes.

Eventually, your good-as-new dishes will look scratched and scuffed again.

A before and after photo showing a white plate covered in grey scratch marks on the left and a plate that has been cleaned with Bar Keeper’s Friend on the right

Before and after cleaning with Bar Keeper’s Friend.Simply Recipes / Megan Scott

Thats the cycle of dinnerware!

Simply Recipes / Megan Scott

What Is Bar Keeper’s Friend?

This simple cleaning solution can handle just about any cleaning task.

It works on non-porous surfaces (not wood!

), like stainless steel and aluminum.

Bar Keepers Friend is an efficient grease cutter, and can remove water spots and mineral deposits from surfaces.