"S Viemeister" > wrote in message
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> On 7/15/2012 11:27 AM, Janet wrote:
>> In article >, says...
>
>>> Salt and vinegar are commonly used to remove tarnish from copper pans;
>>> given
>>> the amount of salt and vinegar in ketchup, I'd imagine it would do the
>>> job.
>>> Of course, salt and vinegar are much less expensive than ketchup and,
>>> generally, as widely found in the home.
>>
>> Or just lemon juice.
>>
> Or a squeezed out (used for other purposes) lemon, dipped in salt.
Yep. That is how I do it. But I've recently come across a site that says
to put one's used lemon skins or orange skins (separately) into a jar (for
each type) with vinegar and then you end up with lemon cleaner of orange
cleaner. Since I always use orange cleaner in my shower stall and lemon and
salt on my copper and know that both work brilliantly, I'm going to try to
make my own vinegar/peel cleaner.