My parents have an old Possum-belly table for an island in their kitchen - and it has a copper top. Which, as you know, stains, darkens, and gets marred in a very short time. One way they keep it shiny and new is by cleaning it with ketchup...that's right - ketchup! I remembered this little tidbit the other day while looking at my lone copper-bottom-pot - where the copper was barely visible, I got out my ketchup and gave it a good cleaning.
The ketchup is very acidic and that's what cleans the copper - but the ketchup has to sit for about 20 minutes or so to really do the job. After that, take a cloth and using the ketchup as a paste, rub it around the copper, rinse and repeat on tough spots.
It washed up almost as good as new and now the copper looks like copper!
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I'm leaving baby Max today - flying back home to Seattle with a broken heart and half a tongue....leaving Max is so hard to do! I've been biting my tongue all week - like all good grandma's do...I hope I'll still have a bit of my tongue left by the time I get to the age when I can say whatever I want and be excused for it because I'll be old and feeble... but at the rate I'm going I'll be totally tongueless by the time Max is two.
