Cleaning up tin
Oh, the magic of the soda bath.
Cleaning & maintenance
Advice on how to keep vintage copper clean and well-maintained
Maintenance: Rusty iron handles
The iron handles on early French pans can be susceptible to rust.
Maintenance: Metal polish for tarnish
I need to do something about the tarnish popping up on this lovely display piece.
Salt, lemon, ketchup: Testing homemade copper cleaners
Can homemade recipes remove tarnish as well as a commercial cleaner?
Cleaning carbonized gunk
If you’re going to own and use vintage tinned copper, you need to understand the value of baking soda in
Removing polymerized oils
Sometimes you get stuff on your copper that just won’t come off, and you have to get serious.