Cleaning my pennies?

[liveforthemagic]

How do you get your old pennies nice and shiny before you press them?

I read somewhere vinegar I thought--but is there a trick to it?

 

[Skylarr29]

I just rub tabasco sauce on the with a papertowel or cloth. Makes them really shinny.

 

[2x_dis_dad]

Also try ketchup or soaking them in Coca Cola.

 

[savs]

Can this be done once they are pressed???

We had our pennies all nice and shiny before we went, but ended up wanting more then what we brought.....so the pennies we used were not as nice looking as the ones we brought.

 

[Sthronds]

We always use Taco Bell mild sauce. Scary that it works!

 

[Pinnochio]

hot sauce works the best. I have actual evidence to support my statement because in science class at school we did this real lame experiment, where we had to see which get the pennies cleanest. The high ph level in hot sauce gets them shiny in a jiff. I guess school isn't totaly useless even though when i was doing the experiment i was thinking when am i ever going to use this lol.

 

[sprite]

We have used vinegar and salt. Mix the vinegar with lots of salt (about 1 cup vinegar and 4 or 5 tablespoons of vinegar) Put in a penny, stir it around and it almost instantly comes clean.

 

[missypie]

We tried the vinegar and salt method. While they became a lot cleaner, they were by no means shiney/like new.

 

[dmslush]

We have used vinegar and salt. Mix the vinegar with lots of salt (about 1 cup vinegar and 4 or 5 tablespoons of vinegar) Put in a penny, stir it around and it almost instantly comes clean.

Could you repost your recipe? You have vinegar listed as both ingredents.

 

[eeyoreforever]

hot sauce works the best. I have actual evidence to support my statement because in science class at school we did this real lame experiment, where we had to see which get the pennies cleanest. The high ph level in hot sauce gets them shiny in a jiff. I guess school isn't totaly useless even though when i was doing the experiment i was thinking when am i ever going to use this lol.

Sounds like a good science fair project for my dd next year.

Actually, I have a question. We cleaned some pennies a couple of weeks ago and they didn't stay shiny for long. How long do yall's stay shiny? We cleaned them with several different substances - if I remember correctly, ketchup seemed to work the best for us. I'll have to try the hot sauce now.

 

[mattr555]

Soak them in a bowl of Cillit Bang

 

[MickeyMacks]

About a cup of full strength vinegar and a couple tablespoons of salt in a bowl, add dirty pennies and stir them around a bit. It doesn't take long. You could soak them for 10 minutes or so if you like. Then put the pennies in a colander and rinse them well, spread them out on a towel to dry and you'll have clean and shiny pennies, though not mint-new-looking. The hot sauce method sounds interesting, never heard of it before so I'll have to try it. Sounds like a lot of mess and polishing, though!

 

[mattr555]

Basically anything that is acidic should work. The absorbic acid in Coke should also work fine.

 

[sprite]

Could you repost your recipe? You have vinegar listed as both ingredents.

duh..... I meant to say 1 cup vinegar and 4 tablespoons of salt.

It gets them clean, but not shiny brand new. I'm probably going to try using the salt/vinegar and them polishing with hot sauce. (I'll bet it makes them taste great too )

 

[Stiff]

taco bell mild sauce

works great

buy a taco, take 30 packs of sauce for it

 

[Daisy'sMom]

I used Crest whitening toothpaste and they are nice and shiny. I first treid soaking them in lemon juice, but left them in for TOO long and most of my pennies actually got big brown spots on them that the toothpaste couldn't touch. So toothpaste 1, lemon juice 0.