Magic Stone found in kitchen aisle

[ddean]

OK......Not Magic Stone......

But if you get a bottle of Soft Scrub
you'll find you have an excellent
cleaner/polisher for the dirty blade.

Found out by accident when cleaning the
sink this morning and happened to clean
a khuk that was lying there.

Label says Calcium Carbonate.
That's limestone.
Shook some up in a bottle of water
and let it settle.
It's likely not natural limestone,
but rather commercially created.
Pr'ly not much difference.

Works good.

 

[Pappy]

Thanks for another tip. I'll have to give it a try
the next time I need to clean vegy juice off one of my blades.

You do come up with some good ideas.

 

[Bill Martino]

I'll tell the dust bunnies.

 

[WrongFriend]

Not only a good tip, but also, it's almost a poem if rhymes are given. Beautiful.

 

[ddean]

"
"With ancient mineral
formed from the sea,
Soft Scrub scrubs soft
the hand-wrought steel.

Metal mirrors
the kami's eye,
and the art of iron,
and sparks that fly.

Gleam and weave,
wisk and swick.
Sweet the spot
that cleaves the stick."

d. dean rector

 

[Bill Martino]

I'm impressed.

 

[firkin]

Soft Scrub (TM)/calcium carbonate...

Interesting, but I don't think calcium carbonate is hard enough on it's own to do a lot. Seashells, diatomaceous earth and chalk are calcium carbonate. Maybe the mineral forms are harder and more finely structured though. Have you tried stropping a hardened edge with the stuff to see if does anything?? Does that grey/black metal color appear on a clean blade? Sounds good for cleaning without scratching though--but that's the idea of the product, right? If it doesn't scratch counter tops, I doubt it will remove much or any metal.

Does limestone have fine harder inclusions like quartz or garnet and the like embedded in the calcium carbonate matrix? Somehow, I imagine the magic stone to be crushed metamorphic rock, or fine metamorphic particles that have been deposited in a softer sedimentary rock that is more easily crushed to release the hard metamorphic particles. I'd think the stuff would have to cut pretty well to have been used by hand.

Just some musings...I dont know how hard calcium carbonate is.

nice rhyme BTW.

 

[ddean]

Originally posted by firkin ......don't think calcium carbonate is hard enough on it's own to do a lot

As far as "polishing," I mis-spoke.

But it took off the grey oxide build up, and the goo, gunk & other non-metal junk.

And the blade looked, after cleaning, like it had been polished. It just let the sun shine through.