[Adeniinteme]

So someone burnt the dinner the other night, consequently the stainless steel saucepan has burnt beans on the bottom. I have access to a sand blaster but that would make the inside of the bottom of the pan all frosted looking. What is easily domestically available that could dissolve this black stuff? Drano?

[corriffuniee]

So someone burnt the dinner the other night, consequently the stainless steel saucepan has burnt beans on the bottom. I have access to a sand blaster but that would make the inside of the bottom of the pan all frosted looking. What is easily domestically available that could dissolve this black stuff? Drano?

Wire brush and Dettol or similar.

[maks_holi]

Boil some water in the saucepan for a while (without letting it boil dry) and you should be able to scrape some of it off. After that, use oven cleaner; one of those heavy duty degreaser ones.

[mirzaterak]

So someone burnt the dinner the other night, consequently the stainless steel saucepan has burnt beans on the bottom. I have access to a sand blaster but that would make the inside of the bottom of the pan all frosted looking. What is easily domestically available that could dissolve this black stuff? Drano?

put some bi carb paste on it and leave it to stand in a small amount of water.

[Ngwkgczx]

So someone burnt the dinner the other night, consequently the stainless steel saucepan has burnt beans on the bottom. I have access to a sand blaster but that would make the inside of the bottom of the pan all frosted looking. What is easily domestically available that could dissolve this black stuff? Drano?

You can also use powdered dishwasher detergent for this. It's easier to handle than oven cleaner and does a better job with enough time. I've found by experience that time is important. You have to be prepared to soak for quite a while - may take a couple of days or more. One of my better efforts took around three days of soaking to get enough crud off to start cleaning. Stainless steel scourers are good for crud but real steel wool is good for final cleaning.

I have had a lot of practice with burnt saucepans in varying stages of burning - one of my specialties really

If you do it often enough on the same saucepan, the handles crack and fall off

[Adeniinteme]

I should have mentioned that the black stuff after a bit of effort is now only ~1/2 mm thick, not great clods.
Good suggestions so far.

[SpyRemo]

For the final clean I use a scotchbrite pad with Jif cream cleanser on it.

It works like a polish, provided you get the thick gunk off first.

[CHyLmxDr]

A couple of hours in a 700 degree oven should burn off most of it. Can't guarantee the state of the saucepan afterwards though.

[DariushPetresku]

When I lived in Kalgoorlie, we bought sandsoap for slo-combustion stoves and burnt pots. My last lot of co-tenants were often burning pots because they watched the TV instead of the cooking. Never learned to turn the heat down either! The lessons were never learned, despite frequent repeats.

[maks_holi]

When I lived in Kalgoorlie, we bought sandsoap for slo-combustion stoves and burnt pots. My last lot of co-tenants were often burning pots because they watched the TV instead of the cooking. Never learned to turn the heat down either! The lessons were never learned, despite frequent repeats.

You lived with ilago?

[DariushPetresku]

Knott AFAIK? Don't know real name.

[LOVEBoy]

If it's good and crusty on the bottom, throw it out into the backyard in full sun for a week or two. Then hook into it with a stainless steel scourer.

Most of the cake should come out fairly easily.

[voksveta]

/* Boil some water in the saucepan for a while (without letting it boil dry) and you should be able to scrape some of it off. After that, use oven cleaner; one of those heavy duty degreaser ones. */

+1

[Ndptbudd]

If it is really baked on, then the stuff is essentially carbon, so it isn't going to dissolve, as such. At best, you may be able to disperse it with the assistance of some of the chemicals mentioned above and mechanical agitation. But it will not dissolve.

[voksveta]

// carbon, so it isn't going to dissolve, as such

Try pouring some liquid iron into the pot, thermite is relatively easy to obtain and would probably do, I hear carbon allotropes are suitably soluble in such materials.

[LOVEBoy]

Why didn't I think of that!

Use thermite to burn through a tower of pots (destroying the evidence of culinary incapability) while at the same time demonstrating the "truth" of the WTC collapse!

[Ndptbudd]

Carbon is soluble in cerium metal.....

[voksveta]

Surely we need to match the popularity of liquid nitrogen ice cream recipes, with a selection of the finest thermite-cooked fresh meats and vegetables.

[Ndptbudd]

An old method of removing gunk from laboratory glassware was to swirl sand around inside it. You might get something like that to work if you could rig up a slowly rotating stirrer. It would have less of a tendency to frost the surface than sand blasting.The finer the abrasive, the smoother the finish.

[freddyujnf]

You can also use powdered dishwasher detergent for this. It's easier to handle than oven cleaner and does a better job with enough time. I've found by experience that time is important. You have to be prepared to soak for quite a while - may take a couple of days or more. One of my better efforts took around three days of soaking to get enough crud off to start cleaning. Stainless steel scourers are good for crud but real steel wool is good for final cleaning.

I have had a lot of practice with burnt saucepans in varying stages of burning - one of my specialties really
























If you do it often enough on the same saucepan, the handles crack and fall off

as an aside.........

we have a very good set of saucepans with black coated handles. i've been wary of putting them in the dishwasher because we've been told it makes the handles brittle .... is this correct ?