A Cheap (and non-toxic) way to polish your tea service

Here's a non-toxic tip for polishing lots of silver at once from chanteuse Sara Klotz de Aguilar:

Get a very large aluminum foil roasting pan. Arrange the silver on the bottom of it so no two pieces are touching. Sprinkle heavily with baking soda. Gently pour BOILING water on it...! This acts as an electroplate machine, and takes all the tarnish off the silver and deposits it to the pan.

It works! Then you just have to do a light buffing with the polish to shine it, but all the gunk is off already!

Or just rent a silver service for $20 a day...