Copper Bottoms

I like cleaning the bottoms of copper pots.  I know it may seem weird, but there is just something about scrubbing and working at it until its nice and shiny.  I like the fairly instant gratification of seeing something all dark tarnished emerge into something shiny and beautiful.  Yes, I do believe I just called a pan beautiful.  I think I'm either crazy or something.  I would normally blame it on becoming a homemaker and that messing with my mind, but my mom had copper bottoms on her pans and I loved doing it years ago.  (When I had the time that is, for some reason I never liked doing it so much when asked...)

I mostly have a set of stainless steal, but this past weekend my mother in law passed on an old copper bottom pan and so I started working on it this evening.  I just use a brillo pad for the whole process as it's what I have, but may see if there are any better ways to do it (...starts searching Pinterest...) cause I may not always have brillo pads around once these run out.  It's only about halfway done and my arms are starting to hurt, but it is nice to little by little see progress.