How to wash a pan from burnt porridge using improvised and professional tools

The content of the article

• How to clean a burnt enamel pan
• Using vinegar
• With soap
• How to wash a burnt stainless steel pan
• Soda
• Activated carbon
• How to wash a burnt aluminum pan
• Whey
• Soda-salt cleaning
• Ways suitable for all types of pots

You can remove the remains of burnt porridge from the pan and carefully clean its bottom from the burn using a number of folk methods. Among them there are methods that are effective and are recommended only for a specific type of pan: enameled, stainless steel or aluminum. Many of them involve the use of available tools..

How to clean a burnt enamel pan

It is very difficult to wash and clean the enameled dishes in which porridge is burnt due to the sensitive coating. Abrasive powder, metal brushes, scrapers easily damage the enamel, and the pan can be thrown away. To clean the pan from the stick, you can try tools such as:

• salt;
• vinegar;
• soap;
• Activated carbon;
• coffee grounds;
• fruits and vegetables: onions, sour apple, pear;
• apple peel;
• Sprite or Coca-Cola soda;
• milk serum.

Using vinegar

An inexpensive, but very effective means of cleaning enameled utensils from burnt porridge is vinegar. As a substitute, you can use citric acid or freshly squeezed lemon juice. Instructions for its use:

1. Pour table vinegar or its substitute on the burnt surface of the pan. The burn area must be fully covered..
2. Close the utensil with a lid and leave to “insist” for about 2-3 hours. After that, wash the enameled pan thoroughly with a suitable detergent..
3. Thanks to vinegar, the internal surfaces of the product will be cleaned not only of the burn left after the porridge, but also of the resulting blackness.

With soap

You can cope with the remains of burnt porridge with ordinary liquid soap. It will help out not only in the case of an enameled pan, but also with products from aluminum and stainless steel. The method below is only effective if traces of burns are negligible, i.e. with weak burning of porridge. Sequencing:

1. Pour hot water into the pan.
2. Add liquid soap there. Brown laundry soap is sometimes used – take half of the soap bar to be chopped with a knife or grated. An alternative is dishwashing detergent..
3. Pour water 2 cm above the burnt porridge into the bowl. Mix everything thoroughly.
4. Boil for 15–20 minutes. Let the pan cool, then clean it with a kitchen sponge.

How to wash a burnt stainless steel pan

Stainless steel kitchen containers are durable and easy to use. Inside and out they look like glossy silver. Lids are often made of heat-resistant thick glass. If porridge burned in a stainless steel pan, then do not be discouraged – this material is not afraid of boiling, detergents and processing with different substances. You can fight the burn on stainless steel dishes:

• by soaking;
• boiling;
• activated carbon;
• whey;
• vinegar
• soda;
• soap;
• special detergents.

Soda

If not only the bottom of the container, but also its outer surface suffered from porridge, then boiling the pan in a soda solution will be an excellent way to get rid of burnt products. Thanks to this method, you can remove the porridge from the porridge and thoroughly clean all inaccessible places. Kitchen utensils will take on their original appearance. Before the procedure, do not forget to remove all plastic parts from it:

1. Find a large pan to place the bowl in which the porridge is burnt.
2. Pour the solution, preparing from the calculation: for 5-6 liters of water 1 pack of baking soda (0.5 kg). Water should cover a smaller container with water 2-3 cm. Put on a stove.
3. As soon as the soda solution boils, reduce the heat, boil for about 2 hours.
4. Then you need to turn off the stove and wait until both containers have cooled. After that, you can get a cleaned pan and wash it thoroughly.

Activated carbon

This method is universal. To get started, prepare activated charcoal by taking a few tablets (3-4 is enough) and grinding them to a powdery state. This can be done with a small sieve or a regular teaspoon. To wash the dishes:

1. Fill the bottom with burnt porridge residues with prepared powder. Let it stand for about 30–40 minutes.
2. Fill the container with cold water, leave to stand for another 30 minutes.
3. After half an hour, wash the kitchen utensils with any suitable dishwashing detergent..

How to wash a burnt aluminum pan

Aluminum dishes become black over time, stained on the outside and inside. You can wash it from traces of burnt porridge in several ways. The main thing – do not forget that you need to use exceptionally soft sponges. Sometimes aluminum dishes are coated with a special coating, and in this case even soda cannot be applied to it, as she will scratch a thin dusting. Do not use corrosive strong substances, because aluminum can enter into a chemical reaction with them. You can wash the aluminum container from the burnt porridge:

• whey;
• soda-salt mixture;
• activated carbon;
• boiling;
• soap;
• vinegar.

Whey

By whey is meant the liquid remaining after folding and filtering the milk. It is a by-product in the production of casein or cheese. Often it is used to wash burnt porridge leftovers from aluminum dishes. How to do this according to the instructions:

1. Fill the aluminum container with serum 1-2 cm above the burned area. Leave for about a day.
2. After 24 hours, drain the whey. During this time, the burn should soften – during the discharge of the liquid, it will go off in flakes.
3. Wash the container with a suitable detergent. Do not rub heavily, otherwise there may be scratches on the surface of the dishes.

Soda-salt cleaning

Thoroughly wash the aluminum pan from the burnt porridge with soda-salt solution. The composition should help soften and remove all residues of the burnout..

It is very important to wait more than one hour for the product to start acting, otherwise it will be ineffective.

Instructions for use:

1. Mix the baking soda and salt in an amount suitable for your degree of contamination, but in a proportion of 1 to 1.
2. Fill the bottom of the container with the mixture and fill it with hot water. You can pour it only 1-1.5 cm, the main thing is that a thick paste of soda-salt mixture is formed at the bottom.
3. Close the dishes with a lid and leave to brew for a day, at least for the whole night.
4. As soon as the container with soda and salt gruel settles, you can replace the mixture and add water. The latter should cover the burnt place.
5. Put the pan on the stove, boil its contents and leave to boil over low heat for another 30 minutes.
6. Then wait for the container to cool. Then rinse thoroughly with a sponge and a suitable detergent..

Ways suitable for all types of pots

Effective cleaning of the pan from the stick is possible in several universal ways that are suitable for containers made of aluminum, stainless steel and enameled utensils. If the burn is only at the bottom of the container, then ordinary boiling water will help you. In this case, you can wash the pan like this:

1. After removing the remaining porridge, immediately pour so much water into the metal container that it covers the entire burnt layer. Then add there 3 tbsp. l soda and leave at least 1 hour.
2. After an hour, put the container on the stove and boil the solution with soda for 10 minutes. Drain all the water and wash the dishes – soot should be removed without difficulty.
3. To clean the enameled dishes by boiling, make a saline solution – 1 liter of water needs 5-6 tbsp. l salt. Boil the solution in a container for 40–45 minutes. Burnt porridge leftovers should lag behind internal surfaces.

Another universal way is to use salt. Using it, you can wash the containers as follows:

1. Fill aluminum or stainless steel dishes with cold water, leave for a short time. Then pour the liquid and pour in the required amount of salt (table).
2. After 2-3 hours, the burnt porridge can easily be cleaned with a sponge. Some housewives add salt immediately to cold water, but there are often cases when this leads to the appearance of dark spots on a stainless steel container.
3. Allow the enameled container to cool after cooking, pour salt on its bottom and leave for 2-3 hours. Then wash thoroughly with hot water. If the burn is very strong, then the procedure must be repeated.