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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.

Paul Vogel
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.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
Ted is available for instant help
or longer-term assistance.
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.

Ciaron Murphy
- 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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