Barkeeper's Friend

[cjsmith]

After a very long and singularly useless thread about getting oil varnish off nonstick cookware, I bought some Barkeeper's Friend (the liquid/spray). For a while, though, it was clear I didn't have any actual use for the stuff.

Well, I found out what it's good for. Stainless steel. ... Wait, let me rephrase.

IT IS PHENOMENAL FOR STAINLESS STEEL I LOVE IT AND I WANT TO MARRY IT AND HAVE ITS BABIES.

There, that's more like it.

Comments

[marahmarie]

Oh goodness *gets excited again* I'll have to try it without the acid then, and sometime soon - thanks!

[siliconshaman]

You're welcome.

Proportions are about 50/50 on the lemon juice and vinegar, and about three times that of water... and be careful adding the bicarb' as naturally it will fizz like anything. [you only need about a quarter teaspoon of it to roughly a pint of mix]

and add the liquid soap after it's stopped fizzing, otherwise you'll end up involuntarily cleaning everything in a ten yard radius.

[marahmarie]

Yeah, to start with I might skip the dish soap, as it tends to be sticky and can leave streaks on things, though I can see how it might help as a de-greaser (I just don't like the after-cleaning you have to do to remove any soap leftover from the initial cleaning) - thanks!

[siliconshaman]

Not dish soap, liquid hand soap... has different properties and you only need a tiny amount.

[marahmarie]

Ah, you left off the word "hand" in both your descriptions, so to me that's dish soap if used in cleaning. Thanks for explaining more. :)

[siliconshaman]

Yeah sorry about that... still working on my first coffee of the morning. [I think I managed to typo every other word too.]

[marahmarie]

It happens. I don't function before I've been up a good four hours without coffee pretty much on a damn-near IV drip.