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How to Clear Rainbow Tint

That rainbow-colored sheen on your stainless is harmless — just the steel reacting with the air. Here's what it is and how to wipe it away.

Rainbow tint on a stainless steel panFig. 01 · Rainbow tint on a stainless steel pan

After using your cookware, you might find some mysterious looking rainbow-colored tinting. That's a result of stainless steel reacting with the air. It's completely safe and harmless to your cookware, but also easy to clean off!

How to clear it, in under a minute

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Rainbow tint is one of the easy ones. For the full cleaning triage — from the everyday wash to the full reset — see The 3 Levels of Cleaning.

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