HELP - how to clean copper pots and pans?

Chen Yu said:

i have some all-clad copper pots and pans, they looked
really beautiful when new, but after a year of use
there're a lot of stains that i can't clean off, i've
tried a number of metal cleaners and non of them seem to
work. any tips or suggestions?

Revere makes a liquid copper cleaner that works on my copper-
clad Revereware; I found it in an upscale hardware store.
Copperglo, a powder copper cleaner, worked well, but I
haven't seen that on the shelves in a long time. Catsup will
brighten up copper, but it doesn't work on the dark spots.

In rec.food.cooking said:

i have some all-clad copper pots and pans, they looked
really beautiful when new, but after a year of use
there're a lot of stains that i can't clean off, i've
tried a number of metal cleaners and non of them seem to
work. any tips or suggestions?

Salt and vinegar.

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In rec.food.cooking said:

i have some all-clad copper pots and pans, they looked
really beautiful when new, but after a year of use
there're a lot of stains that i can't clean off, i've
tried a number of metal cleaners and non of them seem to
work. any tips or suggestions?

Salt and vinegar.

Now, from you I would have expected you'd have said
"Dishwasher"! LOL

Sheryl Rosen said:

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[email hidden] wrote on 4/25/04 10:50 AM:

Quoted message said:

In rec.food.cooking said:

i have some all-clad copper pots and pans, they looked
really beautiful when new, but after a year of use
there're a lot of stains that i can't clean off, i've
tried a number of metal cleaners and non of them seem to
work. any tips or suggestions?

Salt and vinegar.

Now, from you I would have expected you'd have said
"Dishwasher"! LOL

That would be *me*! Clean is important. Flashy, shiney,
etc. is *not*.

BOB

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Quoted message said:

i have some all-clad copper pots and pans, they looked
really beautiful when new, but after a year of use
there're a lot of stains that i can't clean off, i've
tried a number of metal cleaners and non of them seem to
work. any tips or suggestions?

thanks a lot!

chad

Or I suppose you could whip egg whites in all of your pots
and pans. Copper bowls always seem to be shinier after
whipping some egg whites.

Chen Yu said:

i have some all-clad copper pots and pans, they looked
really beautiful when new, but after a year of use
there're a lot of stains that i can't clean off, i've
tried a number of metal cleaners and non of them seem to
work. any tips or suggestions?

I believe you need something acidic to clean them. I have
some pots with copper bottoms. I dropped some lemon juice on
them and they cleaned up a bit. So I thought why not rub the
thing with a half a lemon. Worked like a charm. Rub them
with the lemon then clean the lemon juice off.

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