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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: clean copper pans with ketchup!
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 01:46:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  9 01:46:58 1986
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I like copper pans, and have a lot of them. I'm too busy to clean them as
often as I would like. A few days ago a friend came over for dinner and felt
compelled to help wash dishes afterwards. She took it upon herself to clean
a copper saucepan.

I offered her my copper cleaner, but she wanted to use ketchup instead.
This woman is strange and beautiful and mysterious and I thought that the
ketchup was just part of either the strangeness or the mystery, so I didn't
take it very seriously. But wow, did that ketchup ever do a good job of
getting the pan clean! It certainly worked better than any brand of
commercial copper cleaner I have seen. She said she'd discovered it once
when making ketchup-like sauce in a copper pan and having it boil over.

Anyhow, I've experimented a little bit, and o, mirabile dictu, ketchup is by
far the best copper cleaner I have ever used. I threw out my Wenol and
Rotebjahr, which had been the mainstays of my copper-cleaning arsenal, and
now I use Heinz 57.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA