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- Hey, Eddie and I thought today that instead of cooking,
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we are gonna do things that you need
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to cook with, like copper.
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and when it's outside and it patinas, it's beautiful.
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But I don't necessarily want my pots and pans to patina.
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You know this, when I first came out
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I told them that my mother had cooked on Revere Ware
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and it was great, but I had noticed over the years,
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the quality really went down on it
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and I said, "I would like to do one with the quality
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that this used to have."
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My favorite set that I ever produced.
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And you know what? It didn't sell very well.
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'cause people get more the responsibility
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of having to keep it clean.
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So we're gonna share a few tips with you today
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in case you don't have any professional
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copper cleaner with you.
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So now this is one of the things that Eddie does.
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I have never done this,
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so I'm really happy he shared this with me.
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We've got two cups of vinegar and two, white-
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- White vinegar, yep. - White vinegar
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and two tablespoons of kosher salt.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, so this pan was just done.
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- Yeah, look how pretty that is.
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And so once you get 'em clean,
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you know, it's not hard to keep up with it.
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So we'll just let that,
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you can see it's already starting to work.
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And Eddie said, you know, just a few minutes.
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Can I turn that heat down or does it
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need to be rolling boiling? - Yeah.
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- So like I said, I just adore copper.
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And in our other house, we had copper sinks,
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and oh, my goodness, it was hard.
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And then one day, I got a tip from somebody,
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I can't remember who, but they told me to try ketchup.
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So I would squirt that sink with ketchup
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So here's what this is going to look like.
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Now this is a real old, old piece of my copper,
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and I had it retained so I can cook with it,
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but for some reason I just,
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I guess I don't wanna have to clean it. (laughs)
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But I want you to see now this has been sitting with ketchup
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and like I said, if you don't have any copper cleaner,
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you can do the ketchup thing.
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when I am using ketchup.
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(ketchup bottle sputters) This one hadn't been cleaned
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This one hadn't been cleaned in a long time,
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so it's probably going to take some elbow grease.
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How's that one coming, Eddie?
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Oh, my gosh, it's looking good.
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So the longer you wait in between cleaning,
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the harder it's gonna be.
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But like I said, once you do it, you can,
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you know, just every time you use it,
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maybe hit it with some steel wool
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and you'll have it bright and shiny looking like new.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, and you know,
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like this hot water urn
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- Uh-huh. - I cleaned back before,
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you know, maybe November. - Back before Christmas.
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It was bad. - It was like a penny,
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that dark copper. - It was bad.
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- [Eddie] So that has held up really well,
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but you know, it doesn't get any, you don't touch it.
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- That's right. That's right. - You don't put water on it.
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- And let's see, I think this is the last
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This is perfect for the bottoms of your pots and pans.
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- Yeah. - That's just a perfect tip.
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All right, now I'll take a lemon.
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And you really want to use kosher salt
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because it's a grainier
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and it'll be rougher when you rub it.
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To me, this one takes more elbow grease than all of them.
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But if you in a hurry at the last minute
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and you don't want people coming in
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and seeing your copper so tarnished,
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just pull out an old lemon
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and some kosher salt and get to scrubbing.
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I think that would be last resort, maybe the ketchup and...
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- [Paula] Yes, absolutely.
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- [Eddie] This really only works if you want to get,
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you know, get the base of something.
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It wouldn't do for an entire piece.
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But you know, you could,
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if you had plenty of vinegar and plenty of salt,
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you could make a big pot - Oh yeah, sure.
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- and just sit the whole pot down in there.
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I think that would be so worth it
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'cause vinegar's not expensive.
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than those expensive...
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Oh, no, I didn't want that.
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What did I do? Oh, here it is.
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That is beautiful, Eddie.
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I wonder how I never knew about this tip.
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You and I've never, never talked about this one.
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Like I said, so if you want to spruce up your copper
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and you don't have any copper cleaner,
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these three things will help you get there.
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No, four things. Yeah, no three things.
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The ketchup, the lemon and kosher salt and the vinegar.
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Two cups of vinegar to two tablespoons of kosher salt.
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And just let that ketchup sit for a little while,
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and it'll be sparkly clean before you know it.
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Have a good, good day.
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And now go find something to cook in those pots.
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How about that? (laughs)
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So I just wanted to show y'all before and after.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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