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LeonLeonard > wrote:
> On 7/15/2012 12:44 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:24:53 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ketchup! from the following website (and also a recommendation by a maid
>>>> service):
>>>>
>>>> http://www.realsimple.com/home-organ...572/index.html
>>>>
>>>> Use ketchup to: Remove tarnish from copper and brass cookware. Squeeze
>>>> ketchup onto a cloth and rub it on pots and pans. They should go back to
>>>> their coppery color in minutes. Rinse with warm water and dry with a towel.
>>>>
>>>> I don't like ketchup, but like a lot of people I do have a bottle of it. I
>>>> had no idea I could use it to clean my copper-clad Revere Ware. Surprise!
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> LOL!
>>> I have lots of Revereware with copper bottoms. Try the ketchup and report
>>> back. I'll bet it's a joke and won't work at all. I used to scrub mine
>>> clean for a short while but finally gave up as it takes way more time than
>>> the average cook has.
>>>
>>> IMO, if you see shiny copper bottoms of pans hanging in a kitchen....that
>>> person never uses them or they hire someone to polish them each week.
>>>
>>> My Revereware pots and pans are black on the copper bottoms and they can
>>> stay that way as far as I'm concerned. They still work fine. :-D I'll use
>>> my ketchup for dogs & burgers.
>>>
>>> Gary

>>
>> The darker the exterior of cookware the better it cooks... those who
>> shine the exterior of their cookware to a mirror finish are no kind of
>> a cook, they're all show and no go.
>>

> Finally, some one with common sense.....


Oh thanks, I was getting worried.

Since I hang my pots, I thought someone would bitch.

Greg