Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Thu 19 Jan 2006 01:58:07p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ~patches~?
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>>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>>On Thu 19 Jan 2006 01:23:46p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
>>>LewZephyr?
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>>>>On 14 Jan 2006 18:01:40 -0800, I needed a babel fish to understand
>>>>"aem" > :
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>>>>>I don't get it. If you've cleaned the sink (and other appliances)
>>>>>with soap, why dirty it with oil? That'll just fight the soap action
>>>>>next time you use it to wash a dish. What are you guys using the oil
>>>>>for? What could harm stainless steel that the oil will protect it
>>>>>from? Or do you just like the shine it gives? -aem
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>>>>I was thinking the exact same thing.... why on earth would you oil
>>>>your SS sink? much less any other SS surface.
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>>>A friend tole me years ago that she always rubbed a light coating of
>>>mineral oil on her kitchen sink after thoroughly cleaning. It was
>>>rubbed to a lustre with very little trace of oil left. Apparently, it
>>>prevented water spotting.
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>>I read that ages ago and only tried it once without really liking the
>>results. My preferred method is to wash the sinks then dry much the
>>same way I do my ss pots. It takes very little effort to dry the sinks.
>> I'm glad we didn't choose to go with ss appliances even though ss is
>>an accent in our kitchen.
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> That's what I always did when I had a SS sink, Patches. Personally, except
> for cookware, I wouldn't have SS in my kitchen if it were given to me.
> It's nothing but a royal PITA. I have to admit that I'm more than a little
> anal retentive when it comes to keeping the kitchen and it's appliances
> looking spotless, but I sure wouldn't have the energy it would take to do
> that with SS.
>

Oh, don't get me wrong. I *love* the sparkle of the ss and even want to
do my countertops in ss. Our accents are ss - canning rack, light
fixture, etc. SS appliances really were too much as far as cleaning
even though they had a brushed finish to help hide the finger prints. I
use a ss cleaner a few times a year to remove any stains from the sinks
but I always wipe them down after each use. They are sanitized daily so
that is good enough! Being rather snobbish this way, I can spot a dirty
sink a mile away. I hate going into a nice clean kitchen then spotting
a dirty sink. To me that says you don't care and quite frankly I would
wonder about the food coming out of the kitchen. So, I'd say I'm rather
anal about the condition of my kitchen. I don't think there is anything
wrong with that either. Heck, what comes out of the kitchen goes into
your body. I'd rather be safe and be accused of being anal than find
out someone got sick because my kitchen wasn't clean enough.