Karen > wrote:

>I have a copper bottom Revere ware pot that I love. I use "Copper
>Clean" on the bottom after evertime I use it and keep it shiny.

>Last night, I had dinner at a friend's who had the same pan, but has
>never shined the bottom.

>My question is: does it matter to the efficiency of the cookware if
>it's never polished? Does not polishing it lessen the conductivity?

I would think if anything, the reverse: that polishing it would
wear off the copper, making it thinner.

However, the copper is so thin to begin with it probably doesn't
do anything either way.

Steve