Be carful with this hack, yes it only if you need it done right away in an emergency. It will take some of the metal off. Be careful with jewelry, it may damage softer stones like opal, turquoise, pearls, etc. I value all the silver and silver plate that I have purchased or inherited. I only use plain old fashioned toothpaste with nothing added, a rag and a toothbrush. I have sterling jewelry that I have had for almost fifty years and have never used any kind of solution you dip the items in. I saw my mom do it once and some turned grey, others needed to be scrubbed really hard to get the residue off. Salts will also turn silver black and it takes a lot to get that off, I made the mistake once of not taking off a sterling chain and charm to use a saltwater hot tub, and it took forever to get it looking back to normal. I have been wearing that sterling chain and charm since 1972 and it always looked brand new and worn daily.
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I did this as well, although I found the silver tarnished again within a week! How is your silver after some time has passed?
Back in the day, and still available online (home hobby/sewing fabrics places; Amazon, etc. do your online searching) - Silver Cloth - some places you can buy it by the yard and make your own bags or cut them into shapes to wrap around your silver pieces. Or just buy the bags themselves. Here's a link to Amazon USA:
https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Tarnish-Silver-Cloth-Brown/dp/B00S5FP2FK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1550437909&sr=8-5&keywords=silver+cloth
But I will have to try this trick for the few pieces of silver I have.
As for sterling silver jewelry, if cleaned and then once cleaned, worn daily, your body oils will naturally protect the silver from tarnishing. If it's a piece that you wear infrequently, then it needs to be wiped and then wrapped in a silver cloth.
For anybody else asking the question...…
Could 'slyer' possibly be a typo of trying to type 'Layer'? You'd be putting a layer of foil into the bottom of the sink.
Just a thought.
Could you use this on copper. I have a copper spitoon.
I've not seen a way to do copper like this in water. It's pretty much a vinegar and salt combination. I remember my great-grandmother showing me how to clean a copper teapot with vinegar and salt. The copper is dipped into vinegar, or vinegar is swabbed onto the copper with a soft cloth, and then the salt is rubbed on the really bad parts with a different soft cloth. Kind of have to keep working with both. Its good to have a bowl of salt and a separate bowl of vinegar (like ramekins or measuring cups or small plastic food containers, depends on how big or how many pieces of copper you are going to do. Some smaller things, probably 1/4 cup of vinegar and a teaspoon or tablespoon of salt would work.
And by "salt" I used table salt back in the day. I really don't know, now that I have been using Celtic salt for my dietary needs, if Celtic salt would work "better" to clean copper with it, than the table salt (which is usually sodium chloride AND iodine.). I don't know if a) non-Iodinized salt works better or if the standard table salt WITH the iodine makes a difference. Never thought about or was aware of the difference back in the day, and I've not cleaned any copper in years.