Clean Food Off A Burnt Pot Or Pan!

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Melissa Maker shows us a quick way to clean off burnt food from pots and pans..


Tamara asked:

What’s the quickest way to clean uber dirty pots and pants?

What you need -

1) Dirty pot/pan/dish
2) A few drops of dish soap
3) 2 tablespoons baking soda
4) Water
5) Cleaning toothbrush/double-sided sponge

For stainless steel cookware:

To start, add a few drops of dish soap to the dirty pan.

Next, you’ll need to add 1 tablespoon of baking soda and fill the pan ¼ of the way with water.

Put the pan on high and let it simmer for a while.

Once the pot has simmered for a few minutes, pour the hot liquid down the drain.

BE CAREFUL! The pot will be very hot.

Add another tablespoon of baking soda to the pan and use either the cleaning toothbrush or the double-sided sponge to scrape away stuck on grease.

Rinse with water and enjoy you’re sparkly clean pan!

For a casserole dish:

Put it in the oven for a few minutes until it starts to simmer.

The heat will speed up the process of breaking down the soot.

For copper cookware:

Replace the baking soda with coarse salt and add to an inch of simmering water and soap.
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— Melissa Maker

Melissa Maker is the founder of Clean My Space (a well-known Toronto-based cleaning service) and editor-at-large of CleanMySpace.com. Melissa is a business school grad who happened to start up a cleaning service back in 2006. Her initial cleaning knowledge ranked about a 2/10 (and she didn't really enjoy it either) so she learned everything about cleaning from the ground up. Today, she teaches her staff of 25+ about her favorite techniques and they have helped her build Toronto's best cleaning service. Further, she shares this information with the public via this blog, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter and many Canadian news and television shows. Melissa knows that like her, there are a lot of people who don't really know how to clean (or perhaps don't like to clean either). She's known for her simple and effective cleaning tips.

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4 Comments

  1. Val says:
    September 18, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    This is great! It also works to use a squirt of Cascade dishwasher liquid in the pan with water. Same process. But I think it lifts off crud a little faster. Nice to have two ways to accomplish the yucky task.

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  2. Bree Bristow says:
    October 5, 2012 at 12:45 am

    My genius boyfriend burned popcorn in my stainless steel pan. And I mean really burnt! I tried to scrub it but it will NOT come off. Its been there for a while now. Is there any way I can still save it?

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  3. Cindy Boney says:
    November 22, 2012 at 12:02 am

    For stainless steel pans, you can clean them quickly and easily by putting plain hot water in the pan after cooking your dish!! Do this immediately after cooking–do not allow the pan to chill at all!! Then use a green scour pad, and that’s all there is to it!!

    Another tip when using a stainless steel pan is to use wine, water, or oil to help break up the “crunchies” at the bottom at the end of cooking. This is called deglazing and this also helps to clean the pan.

    The trick to stainless is watch what you are cooking, deglaze when necessary–then clean up is a snap. Your baking soda and dish-soap tip is excellent for cleaning the pan and making it shiny!!

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  4. L.L. says:
    May 17, 2013 at 4:55 pm

    what is a good way to sanitize cleaning brushes and sponges w/o a microwave? I don’t have a microwave. IS it true if u boil sponges it sanitizes them?

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