Interesting Experiment with Taco Bell sauce

Senlathiel

Just read this little experiment, and thought I'd share it.Cleaning Pennies with Taco Sauce

jmcu12

At least he used his time somewhat constructivly. I can say that I will not look at hot sauce the same way again.

sliderider

If taco sauce can remove the tarnish and luster from copper, imagine what it does to your stomach.

mgoodm3

<< <i>If taco sauce can remove the tarnish and luster from copper, imagine what it does to your stomach. >>




Brings it back to its original shine.

dollardude

Interesting. Apparently, the vinegar changes the copper from the +2 to the +1 form, which the salt (chlorine ion) easily reacts with. I had always thought tomatoes had something to do with it, but I guess I was wrong.

fountainheadgold

Wow your making me hungry

CramptonMotorsports

I'm shocked you guys haven't heard or tried this before.

catfish172

try it with Coca-Cola for 3 weeks and see what you get.

Bear

People drink Coka Cola and it destroys coins?

Wonder what it does to the stomach?

Coinosaurus

Very funny. If this were a science fair project, and you were the judge, how would you grade it? Don't forget that you are ALSO a numismatist

PutTogether

doesnt a few weeks of sitting in coca cola actually make a penny dissapear?

sliderider

Coca cola can dissolve bone, teeth, eggshells, basically anything with hard calcium in it. If it worked faster, you could probably use it to remove the hard water stains from yout tub and tile.

Bear

Dark colored soft drinks contain phosphoric acid to solubilize the material. I suppose you would also have

carbonic acid from the carbination. These two acids can do a hell of a job on coins in just 24 hours.

Bunker

People drink Coka Cola and it destroys coins?

Wonder what it does to the stomach?

Drop a piece of bacon in glass of Coke overnight and it will give ya an idea

Bear

I think I will stick with Welches Grape Juice and water.

DominusDeus

Your stomach contains hydrochloric acid, which has a pH of about 0.1. Vinegar has a pH of 2.9. If the mucous membrane in my stomach can protect me from CHl, I'm not worried about vinegar, nor the effects of meat in cola over-night (which was done on Mythbusters. The meat was very much still there, as was the tooth.).

BAJJERFAN

<< <i>Interesting. Apparently, the vinegar changes the copper from the +2 to the +1 form, which the salt (chlorine ion) easily reacts with. I had always thought tomatoes had something to do with it, but I guess I was wrong. >>



Well simply put a penny in a ripe tomato as well smoe processed tomato products from your grocer. The acidity present will probly clean the coin. Vinegar is not known to reduce cupric ion to cuprous state.

dorkkarl

that is funny. i wonder what happens if you scrub a bust half w/ big-mac sauce?

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JRocco

WOW - what a mental image I just had....scrubbing a bust with Big Mac sauce.....I'm going back to bed...

earlwbollinger

That is very interesting.
I wonder. . .
Does the color of a cleaned penny come out the same as a shiny uncleaned penny?
Or is the color a little off or way off?

I might have to try that on that Flying Eagle cent of mine with the black splotches.

mgoodm3

<< <i>Coca cola can dissolve bone, teeth, eggshells, basically anything with hard calcium in it. If it worked faster, you could probably use it to remove the hard water stains from yout tub and tile. >>



The professional bathtub cleaner my mom has main ingredient is phosphoric acid, the same as coke. Phosphoric acid is strong stuff.

LittleBitOEverything

Great experiment you must of been really bored though I still like "LM soak it in the tater better."

DominusDeus

<< <i>Coca cola can dissolve bone, teeth, eggshells, basically anything with hard calcium in it. If it worked faster, you could probably use it to remove the hard water stains from yout tub and tile. >>



just to clairify: snopes

Conder101

I really like how every year or two someone "discovers" vinegar and salt as a copper cleaner. People have been using that as a copper cleaner for cooking utensils for a few hundred years now at least.

eyoung429

But the question still stands, does it discolour the coin or does it actually look good afterwards? I have a TON of test subjects that will happen tonight. I will post and then we will let the coins sit and photo them each week to see .... ie ... dark area, sunlit area, next to the catbox and bleach.......

I will do 10 damaged wheats and let everyone know. dates will be 2 of each decade... ie 1919, 1920's,1930's,1940's,1950's.....

CramptonMotorsports

In my dining experience I've found that Del Taco hot sauce works much better than Taco Bell hot sauce. And you get better food from Del Taco.


Let's face it, our Taco Bell isn't our Grandparent's Taco Bell.

I'm also proud to say that I haven't had Taco Bell in over 3 years! and my stomach thanks me

dragon

Taco sauce, tomatos, coke, Big Mac sauce............you guys are a bunch of amateurs. The professionals use the good stuff, dry aged USDA prime filet mignons and a terragon bernaise sauce to clean their coins.

As a side note, Clams Casino and a 48 oz. Austrailian lobster tail work wonders on proof gold.

aem4162

how will this kind of cleaning effect any grading?

HTubbs

<< <i>That is very interesting.
I wonder. . .
Does the color of a cleaned penny come out the same as a shiny uncleaned penny?
Or is the color a little off or way off?

I might have to try that on that Flying Eagle cent of mine with the black splotches.
>>



In contrast to your cartoon;droppiing a coin off a tall building will not kill someone.It will hurt though!

I use the salt and vinegar combination to clean a few cents and beacuse of the results I no longer eat Salt and vinegar chips

19Lyds

I dropped a nickel in a glass of coke and let it set for a week because my son came home from school saying coke could dissolve money. Nothing happened. Also, a piece of banana on the copper plating on a sauce pan will "brighten" the copper so I think it might be the citric acid in the fruit that actually affects the copper in pennies. Taco Sauce is made with tomatoes.... so there you go.