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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, of course we use it everyday, we don't use flatware. It's all silver.

I have our kitchen staff ensure it's polished weekly.[/quote]
Joke aside, you have a point that real silver is high maintenance and must be hand washed and polished.[/quote]

It is not high maintenance if you know what to do. I put mine in the dishwasher and use plain detergent. You just have to make sure it doesn’t touch non silver items. That makes it tarnish. And handling it often helps too. [/quote]

No, it's not a question of tarnish. Silver will tarnish no matter what you do. The dishwasher prohibition for silver was because it's a soft metal, and rattling around next to harder metals in the silverware basket dinged it up.

Now that most dishwashers have the flat upper rack where each utensil is in its own little cradle, it's not an issue anymore. [/quote]

No, it will not. How do I know this? Because I use my silver every day and put it in the Dw every day. Don’t let it touch other metal items, and make sure to handle it - eg touch it and use it- and it will not tarnish. 
https://www.everydaycheapskate.com/house-rules-cleaning-silver-dishwasher/[/quote]

I was confused, then I realized... Maybe yours is plate? I grew up polishing the ancestresses' silver, which we used at every meal, and ran through the dishwasher every time (in a special basket to keep the pieces from touching each other.) Still needed to be polished, because sterling tarnishes black. Plate tarnishes in a lighter color, so you can get away without polishing it for longer. [/quote]

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