How to effectively clean a burnt stainless steel pan?

Every day everyone cooks something in the kitchen. For breakfast - porridge, for lunch - soup, for dinner - roast. Stainless steel cookware is very popular in every home. Surely at least once in your life porridge or some other dish has burned. It’s not so easy to wipe pots after such a nuisance. But if you know small secrets, you can easily and quickly return to any dishes the former luster and purity.

Choosing the dishes for your kitchen in which you will cook, first of all you pay attention to the quality of the material from which the pan or pan is made. In addition, on practicality and durability.

Stainless steel cookware has always been very popular, and there are quite understandable reasons for this:

• Firstly, it is an attractive appearance.
• Secondly, it is a high-quality and safe material that does not emit various harmful substances during cooking.
• Thirdly, it is very convenient and fast to cook in such a dish, as it heats up almost instantly.

Any quality cookware, including stainless steel, periodically encounters serious contaminants. Of course, if you carefully monitor the dishes, then there should be no serious problems. But everything happens in life.

Most housewives, especially forgetful ladies, very often forget that porridge or soup is being cooked on the stove. As a result, the dish boils over, begins to burn, and all this terribly affects the brilliance and purity of the pan itself.

When porridge or jam burns out, the bottom of the pan is not so easy to wash. It is not easy to get rid of soot, which often forms on the walls of dishes due to strong fire or for other reasons.

As soon as terrible pollution appears on your favorite dishes, which only half an hour ago shone with cleanliness, the question arises - how to wash it, than to clean it. You can clean the pan from the burn by any means, which are in a wide assortment presented in stores with household chemicals.

If you decide to use professional tools, then consider several important nuances, thanks to which you will not only return the cleanliness of the dishes, but don’t spoil it completely:

• chemical cleaning agent is better to choose not powder. Particles of such an abrasive can leave scratches on the surface of the pan, after which its appearance will no longer be so perfect;
• give preference to gel or liquid means. Before buying it, be sure to read the instructions to make sure that with this tool you can really wash pots in which food is prepared;

• scrapers, hard brushes, metal sponges - it is better to refuse it. Of course, they will help to quickly and effectively get rid of serious dirt on the dishes, but at the same time, they will leave scratches on the surface of the kitchen utensils;
• Before you start cleaning the pan with the help of one or another means, look at the instructions to do everything right. Clean only with gloves, if you do not want to spoil the delicate skin of your hands;
• work only with a soft sponge. Never use the sponge with which you wash the dishes. There must be a separate sponge to clean pots and pans.

In addition to the fact that a heavily burnt pot can be easily cleaned to a shine using special household chemicals, you can do this by other methods. At home, with the help of improvised means, you can easily return to the dishes its pristine shine and cleanliness.

Sometimes at the bottom of the dishes burnt pieces of food remain that do not go away with the usual dishwashing detergent. In this case, it will save you most common salt, which is always in the house. Fill the bottom of the dishes with cold water and leave for half an hour. After which, after draining the water, fill in everything that is burnt, which is at the bottom with ordinary salt. In this form, leave the pan for two hours. After that, you just need to wash off the salt, rubbing it slightly with a sponge inside the dishes. You will see that all burnt pieces of food will easily disappear.

Every modern housewife actively uses vinegar not only in the preparation of any dishes, but also for cleaning various products. For example, a simple table vinegar, which many people like to use with dumplings, perfectly eliminates the pan from burning.

If the pollution is too strong, then there is another simple but effective way. Again you will need the vinegar that you usually dress in salads. Half a glass of vinegar should be poured into the dirty dishes and rub there half a piece of ordinary laundry soap. Then put the pan on the fire and boil for half an hour. Even heavy pollution will leave your favorite dishes, and it will again shine with a sheen of purity.

Sometimes problematic contaminants, such as soot, occur outside the dishes, and you can’t wipe them with a regular dishwashing gel. We have a great method that helps many housewives deal with this problem - this soda.

Baking soda easily copes with various contaminants. Put a small amount of soda on the sponge and gently, in a circular motion, rub the pan inside and out. All pollution will disappear right before your eyes.

If serious contamination has formed on the outside, soak the pan in a large container so that the bottom is in the prepared solution. Dilute baking soda in water and soak the bottom of the pan, then clean in the usual way.

Sometimes stains appear on the surface of the pan, resembling a rainbow. You can get rid of them with the help of vinegar, which must be diluted in water. Half a glass of warm water - a tablespoon of vinegar. In this mixture you should moisten the sponge and wipe the surface of the dishes. If there is no vinegar in the house, but there is citric acid, then it can also be used to clean dishes. Also, add a spoon to half a glass of water citric acid, wait until it is completely dissolved and you can begin to clean.

Stainless steel utensils require special care. If you do everything right, then you do not have to spend several hours of your precious time getting rid of serious pollution.

Each time after preparing lunch or dinner, wash the pan thoroughly. Do not spare the detergent and rinse the dishes thoroughly both inside and out. In addition, remember that such dishes should be washed only after they have completely cooled, so as not to spoil its appearance completely.

Try not to wash such pots in dishwashers, as they often use too high a temperature. Stainless steel products are best washed in warm water with a soft sponge and the usual detergent that you use to wash dishes every day.

After you wash the dishes, be sure to wipe it dry with a soft towel. If you leave the pan to dry on your own, then the streaks may eventually form into dark spots, which you will then hardly wash off.

If you want your pot to always shine and shine, as it was in the store at the time of purchase, there is an effective way. Take a small slice of raw potato or just peeled peel, and rub them on the surface of the dishes. You will see how miraculously it shines and shines again.

The porridge burned in the morning - for sure, this situation is familiar to many of you. In this case, spoiled breakfast spoils the mood, and spoiled dishes, which are not easy to clean, further increase the negative effect. The advice and recommendations of specialists will definitely come in handy:

• burnt porridge or burnt jam - all this negatively affects the cleanliness of the dishes. Normal activated carbon will help get rid of such contaminants. Five to six tablets need to be crushed into powder, add a little water to get a thick slurry. This mixture should be applied to the problem areas of the dishes and left for about thirty to forty minutes. Then rub lightly with a sponge and rinse;

• many housewives leave coffee grounds just in case. Or in other words, sleeping coffee. It can be used as a body scrub, as well as an excellent tool for cleaning kitchen utensils. Put the rest of the brewed coffee on a wet sponge and gently, without pressing, rub all dirt;
• the original shine of stainless steel dishes can return ammonia or regular potatoes. Above, we described a method using potatoes that helps restore shine. In addition, if you fill the pan with water, add a few drops of ammonia into it and boil everything for twenty minutes, it will shine again like new;
• expensive stainless steel pots are always accompanied by utensil care instructions. Do not ignore her.

• the peel of a regular green apple will help restore the shine of the dishes. Rub the surface, the walls with a peel and it will shine again.In addition, if you put the cleaning in a pan, add a little water and boil it for ten to fifteen minutes, this will help relieve the dishes of light impurities;
• stains that cannot be washed with a conventional dishwashing detergent can be easily removed with toothpaste. Put the paste on the problem area, rub it with a soft sponge and the dishes will be perfectly clean again;

• spots of fat that are formed during cooking outside the pan are easily washed with special tools that are in every hardware store. Grease removers for kitchen utensils can easily cope with such problems. But before using them, carefully read the instructions;
• soda ash and a simple laundry soap will help get rid of serious pollution. All you need to do is grate the soap, add a couple of teaspoons of such soda, add water and boil the pan for half an hour.

For how to wash a stainless steel pan from carbon deposits with citric acid in 30 seconds, see the next video.