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Originally Posted by jblum8156
I have to put my 2 cents in about granite. We made a complete new kitchen in our home in NY including the most beautiful Brazilian granite - it was black with green and cream swirls, cost a fortune.
To keep it shining, not just clean, it had to be vigorously polished every day, and not just the the part that had been used for food prep. All of it. It became my obsession. Never had a problem with stains, and it's lovely to be able to set hot pots on it, but otherwise, no thanks. I would polish it all before I went to bed and the next day have to do it all over again.
There are so many new products now, and also different kinds of natural stone (hint: don't even consider marble. Everything stains marble, even water). Another problem is that granite is so hard that it breaks things. If you tip over, not drop, just knock over a glass, it will shatter. Taking things out of the dishwasher, if it hits the edge of the granite, goodbye.
Shop around before you decide.
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OH I do so understand. I had the same experience. I thought that it was just because it was black galaxy. If I wiped it off once a day, I wiped it off four times,
all of it not just the food prep. It seemed like acres. And the breaking part...you are right on, I had chips in everything. It was beautiful, gorgeous, but not if it was smudged. No stains, and sitting hot pots was great and just looking at it knowing it was eons old was something. I love to come here to my formica. It is a vacation from the granite.