hopkins_student
Distinguished Member
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2004
- Messages
- 3,164
- Reaction score
- 176
So I f*cked up. My wife bought me a Mauviel copper bottom, stainless lined pot this summer. After cleaning it the other day I put it on the stove on high heat to dry it off. I intended to take it off the heat after twenty or thirty seconds, but I left it for forty five minutes. When she found it the copper bottom was a smoky black color and the stainless lining was a gold/bronze color.
With the help of some barkeeper's friend, Mauviel Copperbrill cleaner, and sliced lemon+salt I've gotten the stainless back to looking essentially new and almost the entire copper bottom back to the normal copper color, but it has a very dull finish compared to the mirrored finish that it started with (and that the lid still has). Does anyone have any advice on how to return it to the mirror finish it started with? Obviously this has been a learning experience and I'm not going to be lazy when it comes to drying my nice cookware again.
Thanks, h_s.
With the help of some barkeeper's friend, Mauviel Copperbrill cleaner, and sliced lemon+salt I've gotten the stainless back to looking essentially new and almost the entire copper bottom back to the normal copper color, but it has a very dull finish compared to the mirrored finish that it started with (and that the lid still has). Does anyone have any advice on how to return it to the mirror finish it started with? Obviously this has been a learning experience and I'm not going to be lazy when it comes to drying my nice cookware again.
Thanks, h_s.