Awesome New Find: Bar Keepers Friend

     Alright, so for the last year I've stared at my toaster oven every morning and cringed as my eyes glazed over the clouded grimy glass door. And every morning I'm reminded of the countless attempts to clean the life out of that thing and the countless failures. Do you have anything like that? That ONE part of the kitchen that escapes your cleaning talents and taunts you daily? Ok, maybe it's just me but maybe there are a few of you out there just as unfortunate as I.

     A few days ago when I was dreaming perusing in Williams-Sonoma, I came across this little container of Bar Keepers Friend. The name sparked a far off brain cell and I remembered I had heard some amazing (and some too-good-to-be-true) tales of the cleaning power of the product. Immediately an image of my sad grimy toaster oven door popped into my head and I knew I had to give it a try. Almost as soon as I came to the conclusion I HAD to have that cylinder of magic, I remembered I was in Williams-Sonoma and as much as I'd like to dream...I'm just starting out and can barely afford the window shopping. So I regrettably slowly turned the container over and GUESS WHAT? The Kitchen Cleaning Gods were shining down on me that day because it was only $2.95! Even I can afford $2.95!!

      So what were the results?

Well here is a picture of the grimy, icky, every-other-kind-of-cleaner retardant glass door BEFORE:

I told you it was gross...

and this is the same door AFTER:

 

It's like zen for kitchens. Notice the non-grimy glass and best of all, it took less than a minute and no elbow grease :-)

 Now if you want to see something REALLY amazing:

     My roommate (evil one who introduced me to such things as Williams-Sonoma, and I love her for it) had the poor misfortune of having her very nice (and quite pricey) teapot burnt to smithereens by one of our not-so-domesticated-roommates. It was originally all the same stainless steel color....and this is what it ended up being:

 A burnt-copper two-toned disaster.

   My roommate was obviously upset at the prospect of having to buy another one but then I had an idea...why not try some Bar Keepers Friend? Can't hurt right? And it might save $60!

The result (no alterations were made to the photos, btw):

 

I KNOW! It's amazing! We were giddy with excitement so impressed!

So, this $2.95 container of magic dust...

 ... just paid for itself 20 times over and made my mornings brighter (and clearer) :-)


 Happy Spring Cleaning!