In article >,
"Julie Bove" > wrote:

> My one grandma collected copper molds and had them displayed all over her
> kitchen. She also had the same kind of copper bottomed Revereware that I
> do. She was constantly polishing the stuff. When I was younger, I thought
> it needed to be polished. Then I realized there was no real point in doing
> that. It cooked the same, polished or unpolished. And once you used it, it
> went all ugly again.

That was one of my jobs when I was a kid -- to polish the copper bottoms
of the Revere Ware. I liked doing it because you could see the results,
unlike vacuuming or dusting which, if you did it as often as you were
"supposed to," never yielded visible results.

Priscilla