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In the same way that you do not wash a coton t-shirt like a silk shirt or a wool sweater, you may not wash your everyday dishes like your crystal glasses, your wedding porcelain or your handmade knives and cutlery.

Indeed, humidity, heat and chemicals always weaken, more or less, your tableware and kitchen articles.

Cracks, stains, whitening... are signs that show, often too late, that your dishes would have preferred to be washed by hand.

We can only advise you to handwash articles that are dear to you with a soft sponge and quickly wipe them.
It is the best way to keep their shine and your knives' cutting edge. 

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To speak more closely about knives and cutlery here are some advices :

          - Rince your knives ans cutlery if you do not wash them quickly so that food acidity will not oxyde the steel .
          - Do not leave in prolonged contact with water or a heat source in order to keep the stainless feature of steel and prevent water from infiltrating and do play the assembly parts.

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• Full stainless steel knives and cutlery, or with Paperstone^® or composite handle (carbone fiber, stabilised wood with resin…)

          - These materials can be washed in the dishwasher. We nethertheless recommend to set the temperature to 55°C maximum.
          - Place the knives with blades turned to the bottom in order to protect the cutting edge as possible.
          - Use a conventional powder detergent without adding regenerating salt or rinsing liquid as they are corrosive.
          - Do not wash with other metals such as iron, silver or gold, this to avoid any electrolysis phenomenom thant can stain your articles.
          - Wipe as soon as washing is completed to limit oxidation risks.
          - Store in a dry place.

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• Acrylic handle knives and cutlery

          - Acrylic is a plastic that must be shaped to realise the handles. It will loose its brightness and be deteriorate if it is washed in the dishwasher. We so recommend you to handwash acrylic handles articles.

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• Wooden & horn handle knives and cutlery

          - These materials are very fragile. They imperatively must be handwashed with a soft sponge.
          - Avoid any immersion; prolonged contact with water or liquid will damage the material.
          - Occasionally wipe handles with linseed oil to give them back a little shine and protect them.

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Particular case of juniper wood

Juniper wood can ooze. This can make the handle a bit sticky.
You can solve the problem by wiping the handle with a rag soaked in a little with nail remover or a multi-purpose stain remover adapted to wood.

Oups !

You knew all of this but one of your knife or fork has been washed in the dishwasher and presents some stains on the stainless steel ?

The reason might be a limestone water, or washing products you used. 
You can try to erase the stains  :

          -  by wiping them with a sotf cloth humidified with some drops of white vinegar or lemon juice diluted in boiling water;

          - by erasing them with a white eraser

It's your handles that are suffered ?

Send us photos; we wil try to propose you solutions.