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How to Clean Coffee & Tea Stains In Cup
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When those pesky little coffee and/or tea stains start to show up in your favorite cups, try using a mixture of vinegar and baking soda.
A greenie scratch pad cleans your cups and glass ware with hardly no scrubbing.I use them on everything.And they don’t scratch your dishes.
TIP FOR TEA OR COFFEE STAINED CUPS: MAGIC ERASER!
You can use it on the finest of china! I use it on my china tea cups when they get stained.
Pour bleach (Javex, Old Dutch, etc) into the stained cup. Swirl it around til the stain disappears. Pour bleach into a clean jar and cap tightly. It can be used quite a few times, kept handy beside dishwashing soap. Wash the bleached cup well with hot soapy water, then rinse well. Little effort required.
drop in a denture cleaner and leave over night rinse clean or wipe with a sponge
I had once read that using plain white Colgate toothpaste would clean my white porcelain crockpot. Worked like charm. Tried it today on coffee stained coffee cups. Worked great. Non-abrasive like salt. Non-toxic like bleach. And does not leave the taste of salt or vinegar in the cup.
I didn’t have white Colgate so I tried Crest pro-health. Worked so great I was amazed!!! Try it, you’ll love it!
I use an SOS pad to clean a coffee cup…when I see a little stain in the cup, I take a wet SOS pad and clean the inside of the cup…it work’s great and fast too.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to use bleach on the dishes that you may eat or drink from.
Crest pro-health worked like a charm for me. I had a white china cup that has been stained for quite a while and whenever cleaned it would take lots of scrubbing. I used the toothpaste mentioned before and it was so easy!
I would like to add my support to the toothpaste solution. I had previously tried vinegar and baking soda but did not get the results I wanted. After searching I came upon this thread. I just used what I had handy, which was Aquafresh whitening, but it didn’t seem to matter. Toothpaste really works!
Fast and Easy
I have always used bleach to clean my stained tea cups. It doesn’t take much and the cup looks like new. Make sure you always rinse well afterward. It also works on tea pots, finish with hot soapy water and rinse well. I use a strainer in my tea pot for loose tea, a little bleach and hot water makes it look like new as well. I am going to try toothpaste on some of my older tea cups. Thanks for all the tips.
Deeper stains
I have used bleach, dental tabs, vinegar and baking soda, various scrubbers and always followed with soap and water. All have worked to clean my tea cups. My problem is that the following stains are darker and more difficult to clean. It appears that the inner finish of the cups has been damaged. I have several cups that are fine bone china and nothing I’ve tried works to remove all staining. Please help!