What is the best way to clean a pan that has burnt on food?
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To remove burnt-on food from baking dishes/pans, place a dryer sheet in the bottom and fill with hot water. Wait about a 1/2 hour and it should wipe clean. May have to be repeated if really messy.
Leave it to soak overnight in hot water and bicarbonate of soda.
If you put a pan into hot, soapy water RIGHT AFTER YOU REMOVE IT FROM THE STOVE (while it's still hot), it's pretty easy to clean. If it's already dried and REALLY stuck, you'll have to use some sort of cleanser like Comet or Ajax along with some steel wool, and hopefully, you won't ruin your pan.
I once cooked some popcorn in one of my mom's soup kettles and it was so burned, my Dad had to use his professional sander on it, and it still didn't all come off. Heheh. Good luck! :)
with baking powder. put warm water in the pan , just enough to cover the stain, now add 1 tablespoon of baking powder& leave for 10 min´s , wash with your own washing up liquid
An ex of mine used to put laundry detergent in the pan and fill with hot water and leave over night, i was amazed at how good it worked , especialy as she burnt everything she cooked , even beans ?
We use Dawn Power Dissolver - it comes in a blue spray bottle. It works great on pots and pans with burned food, but also works good on the stove top if there is a boil over.
You can use a "de-glazing" type of process that chef's use in cooking. Heat the pan back up over medium-high heat. When it starts to smoke a little bit, pour about 1/2 a cup of water into the pan and start scraping it with a firm spatula as the water boils away the burnt food. That should get any burnt on food right off.
Leave it to soak overnight in hot water
I put hot water in it for an hour then clean it with SOS. That is what I use and it works really good. It makes my silver dishes shine. No joke.
Use powder laundry detergent mixed to a gel-like substance with warm water. Add half a lemon or a good amount of lemon juice. The laundry detergent breaks up the carbonate that is cooked onto your pan. The lemon is a grease fighter.
Rub some on the pan and let it sit for about 15 minutes, then scrub with an SOS pad, or some sort of scrub brush. It should come right off!
soak it in vinegar it takes less time than baking soda
If the pan doesn't have some type of coating (like Teflon), I use oven cleaner. Refer to directions on the can to know how long to let it sit.
This has yet to let me down.
After I rinse the pan, I cover the bottom with a thick layer of kosher salt, then fill it up with water and set it on the stove on the lowest setting for about half an hour, then turn off the heat and let it sit overnight. The next time I do the dishes, I dump out the water, fill it up with hot, soapy water, and get to work with the Brillo pad. I don't know why, but the salt often softens up the burnt food enough so that I can use a sponge, instead of the Brillo.
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