One tip for the shine, though; do you have any old fashioned borax? It's wonderful for stainless.
I only have one stainless steel pot on the boat and am wanting to switch over to ALL stainless steel pots and pans. I have talked to the Captain about doing that, even showed him a stainless steel pan I took with me to make that pumpkin roll with and it really impressed him...

I had a long talk with my relief cook about what she did and how hard I had to work to make them look decent again. I also taped notes in every cabinet that has aluminum cook ware in it to HAND WASH ONLY! She is a new hire so I gave her the benefit of the doubt and although I was SOOOO mad at the work it created for me during CHRISTMAS.. I have forgiven her lack of knowledge (although I can't understand WHY she kept doing it after seeing what it was doing and she did EVERY single pot and pan on the boat!!) She apologized and apologized and seemed sincere so it should not happen again. If she does, the war is ON! My question is is it even SAFE to cook food in them when they get like that?

I have been brushing the daylights out of Boo and she has fur missing on both her hips. Her fur has knotted like I have never seen it and she did knot pretty bad before this but this is worse than I have ever seen. I told Rie that 5 weeks is defiantly TO long for her to go without being brushed but Sis NEVER brushed her when she lived with her... Is it age that has made it become such a problem for her now?