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-----Product/service to remove black off of apple butter kettle
I have a 4th generation apple butter kettle that has been blacked by the cooking over wood fires in the many years of making apple butter in years past. I would like the outside clean and shiny once again, but have no idea what product or formula to use to remove this cooked on suet/charcoal. or a service that might do it for me.
hobby/collector - Roanoke, Illinois
March 17, 2011
Hi, Paul.
Do you know what the kettle is made of? Cast iron?
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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March 17, 2011
Slightly off the topic. We used to smear the outside of a pot to be used over a fire with dish washing liquid prior to putting it on the fire. This made subsequent cleaning a lot easier.
If we forgot to do this then soap filled abrasive pan scrubbers and the scrubbing suggesting by the name were required but that was only for a weeks build up of soot.
- South Wales, United Kingdom
March 21, 2011
IT IS MADE OF COPPER THROUGH AND THROUGH.
Paula Vogel- Roanoke, Illinois
March 21, 2011
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