If you are a multi-tasking enthusiast and often juggle with cooking, watching your favourite soap opera, texting and bathing children or simply misjudging the cooking time, you may have ended up with a burnt pot. Burnt pot, saute pan, pan or slow cooker bottoms are rightly known to be particularly tough and very difficult to clean. No need to bury it at the back of the garden of the garden and buy a new one that you have never seen before (let’s reserve this good old trick for broken dishes that your spouse is particularly fond of), here are some tips and tricks from grandma to clean your burnt or even charred pot while respecting health rules.
Clean the burnt pot with baking soda and white vinegar
The mixture of baking soda and white vinegar causes an effervescent chemical reaction. This technique is to be used on stainless steel or cast iron pots. Do not use this method for aluminium pots or pots with non-stick coating such as Teflon because the bicarbonate/vinegar mixture is much too abrasive for this type of material. For more efficiency use the proportion 100 ml vinegar: 1 tablespoon of bicarbonate.
- Add a little water and approximately 200 ml of vinegar to your pan
- Add the bicarbonate
- Let foam until the bubbles disappear
- Heat the mixture for a few minutes
- Scrub the bottom of your pan with a brush or sponge
- Rinse with clean water
This technique will allow you to hit two targets with one bullet because white vinegar is also very effective in disinfecting and removing bad smells in your container.
Recover your burnt pot with soda crystals
Soda crystals are well known for their degreasing power, but they can also be used if your sauce has gotten a little too caught in the bottom of your pan.
- Add a few handfuls of crystals to your pan
- Add boiling water
- Soak overnight
- Rub with a sponge
- Rinse with clean water
Clean a burnt pot with dishwashing liquid and boiling water
You probably think that using dishwashing detergent is the first thing you tried and you don’t learn anything here but have you tried to heat your dishwashing liquid in the pan? This method is ideal for sensitive materials such as metal with non-stick coating. You can use dishwasher tablets.
- Boil water in your pan
- Add a few drops of dishwashing liquid
- Residues from burnt foods such as milk or caramel should peel off as the water boils
- Gently rub with a sponge if necessary
Using citric acid
A true multi-purpose ally during spring-clean, citric acid can be used to descale, strip, stain and disinfect utensils, among other things, but be careful to use it only on cast iron or stainless steel.
- Pour a few tablespoons of citric acid
- Add boiling water
- Let it work for a few minutes
- Rinse well and rub
The 100% ecological version:
Citric acid is found in lemon, so you can rub your pan with a cloth soaked in salted lemon juice.
Attention:
The use of household products such as bleach or ammonia can be very dangerous because toxic residues can remain in your container and be ingested. However, bleach or oven cleaners can only be used to clean the outside of your container.
Abrasive sponges and metal sponges are not permitted for containers with non-stick coating.
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