"David Harmon" > wrote in message
m...
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:25:34 -0700 in rec.food.cooking, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote,
>>Gary wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>>Yep. I no longer polish my copper bottoms. My grandma and parents used
>>to
>>do it all the time. They were proud of the results.
>
> If someone wants polished copper pots hanging in the kitchen, they
> should polish them, coat them with lacquer, and then never cook anything
> in them. I hope nobody here is that person.

I really can't see why everyone thinks that cleaning copper is such a
problem. I recently bought, at huge expense, a copper jam pan. I figured
that since I'd wanted one for 40+ years and I had a spare bit of cash, I was
going to have one and enjoy using it before I popped my clogs.

Thsi pan lives on top of my kicthen cupboards and I have to say that when I
first put it up there, I was ashamed of how grubby the tops of the cupboards
were so I knew it too would get grubby. Anyhow, When I have pulled it down
as a did afew days ago to make Haw Jelly, it was grubby. I washe dit, made
my jelly and then cleaned it with lemon and salt which took no more time
that it woudl to clean any other big pan that had seen a bit of hard
cooking. It is back up there and it will bget grubby again. C'est la
guerre..............