"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:54:05 -0700 (PDT), "
> > wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 2:23:36 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> My new flatware arrived the other day and now I think I know what
>>> happened
>>> to my old set! In looking at various sets online, I saw.
>>>
>>> 1. Do not leave in tomato containing foods.
>>>
>>> 2. Do not use lemon dish soap.
>>>
>>> Apparently both of these things cause tarnish.
>>>
>>> Since two of my spoons had tarnished bowls, I suspect that someone left
>>> them
>>> sitting in a bowl of tomato soup or some such thing. And the odd,
>>> tarnished
>>> spots on some other pieces may well have come from my dish soap. I used
>>> lemon for years. Either dishwasher or hand wash soap.
>>>
>>> The tomato part makes sense. But I never would have suspected my dish
>>> soap.
>>>
>>> I should note that I did not see this disclaimer on every set that I
>>> looked
>>> at. Only some. The sets that I bought did not have this disclaimer.
>>>
>>>
>>Not all sets being sold today are 18/10 stainless steel; some sets are
>>lower content and are not as sturdy. But I've always heard
>>never to leave to utensils sitting in mustard.
>
> Contact with any metal ruins mustard; use wood, bone, horn, ceramic,
> even plastic.

I almost always buy mustard in squeeze bottles. I had some little Hickory
Farms jars but they were very small. One or two uses.