What cleans 'stainless' steel.(stainless steel appliance cleaners)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)

When Kristina Murray and her husband, Christopher, bought stainless-steel appli-ances for their house in Cornwall, N. Y., she thought it "looked really cool nestled under mocha-stained cabinets and black granite countertops." Now that their toddler has begun to put his hands and mouth on virtu-ally everything, she's seeing stainless in a different light: "We realized it takes a lot of work to maintain its shiny finish."

Playing the role of toddler, we smeared peanut butter, jelly, ketchup, mustard, and tomato sauce on sheets of different types of stainless steel, let them sit for at least 24 hours, rinsed off any goo, and used the cleaners as directed.

What we found. All the products cleaned up all the stains except mustard, which left permanent speckles on our steel sheets. All the products also removed fingerprints easily, though they didn't repel new prints. The Weiman spray seems to be better than others at limiting streaking ...