How To Clean Your Kitchen Sink

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This post is all about how to clean your kitchen sink.

The kitchen sink is one of those places most people forget to clean. Why? Because I think it is easy to think that it’s not dirty since there is constant water and soap running through it when you are washing dishes. Unfortunately, that is not the case and it actually can get pretty gross.

But don’t worry, in this post, I will show you how to clean your sink in just four easy steps! So if you have been looking for how to deep clean your kitchen sink and how to keep your kitchen sink clean, then this post is just what you have been looking for!

This post is all about how to clean your kitchen sink in four easy steps.

Full disclaimer. There are many ways to deep clean your kitchen sink. This is just the way I clean mine, and I have tried many ways over the year and I have found that this way gets my sink clean and shiny. That said, use my kitchen sink cleaning hacks at your own discretion.

Table of Contents

How To Clean A Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink

Step 1 – Clear the sink of all dishes and rise

Before moving forward with deep cleaning the kitchen sink, first empty the sink of all dishes and food scraps, etc.

Step 2 – Use a few drops of dish soap to scrub the sink paired with a sponge

Once your sink is nice and clear, drop a few drops of dish soap and use a sponge to scrub your sink thoroughly. Scrub every inch of the sink! Add additional dish soap if needed.

And once you have scrubbed your sink clean, rinse off the soap.

How To Make Your Stainless Steel Sink Shine

Step 3 – Gently scrub the sink with Bar Keepers Friend then Rinse Off

Here is how to make your sink shine!

Pour a decent amount of Bar Keepers Friend cleaner on your sink. Then with a sponge, lightly scrub your sink, concentrating the most on stains. When you are done scrubbing, leave the Bar Keepers Friend on for at least 5 minutes, then rinse off thoroughly.

Step 4 – With a rag, dry and buff the sink to shine

Once you have rinsed off the Bar Keepers Friend cleaner from the sink, dry and buff the sink to reveal shine. And here is my kitchen sink after rinsing, drying, and buffing it with a rag.

Cleaning stainless steel sink with Bar Keepers Friend is seriously the best! it leaves you with a super shiny kitchen sink.

How To Clean Your Kitchen Faucet

The best and easiest way to clean your kitchen faucet is with vinegar. And it is one of my favorite kitchen sink cleaning hacks!

Use white distilled vinegar paired with a bag and a rubber band or hair tie. Pour white distilled vinegar into a bag. About 1 cup of vinegar should be enough. Tie the bag around the faucet spout with a rubber band. (as shown below) And let it soak for at least an hour, This should help lift all the grimy stuff from the faucet spout and you can then use a sponge paired with a bit of dish soap to completely scrub off all the grime away.

This should leave your faucet spout free of gunk and nice and clean again!

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Sink Cleaning Essentials

1. Dish Soap

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2. Sponge

I usually use an old sponge to clean my sink. So every time I replace our dish sponge, I keep it to clean other areas of our home, such as the sink. I highly recommend doing that rather than buying designated sponges to clean your sink.

3. Bar Keepers Friend

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Bar Keepers Friend is seriously amazing, and I use it to clean many spaces in my home. I LOVE how clean it gets my sink and how it helps remove stains so easily! I linked this one from Walmart but you can also View it on Amazon, it’s just a bit more expensive there!

4. Rags

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These rags are the best I use them to clean all around our home. (except the bathroom) I love that they are all white and make it easier to wash them all at once and disinfect them. I use these to dry and buff the sink after the Bar Keepers Friend.

5. White Distilled Vinegar + Bags

I usually get our vinegar at Walmart and use sandwich bags to tie around the sink as I shared earlier in this post. However, you can also use recycled bags if you have some handy. Just make sure to tie it really tight with the rubber band so the vinegar doesn’t spill.

And there you have it! Hope this helps you get your kitchen sink nice and clean and keep it that way!

This post was all about how to clean your kitchen sink.

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