How to clean a burnt stainless steel pan?

You can partially fill the pot (ensuring all blackened areas are covered) and then add a very generous amount of salt to the water (since I don't know the size of the pot, it is hard for me to recommend a quantity but you want the water to be very salty). Put it on the stove and bring to a boil and allow the salt water to boil for 5 or 10 minutes then leave the pot to cool. Rinse and wipe clean with a potscrubber and it should look like new.

How To Clean Burnt Pan

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How to clean a burnt stainless steel pan?

My daughter cooked Macaroni and cheese yesterday. When I got home it was sitting on a burner set on low. The bottom of the pan was black. I left it to soak overnight hoping to loosen it up.

What can I use that will disolve this burnt on mess? The pan is stainless steel professional grade...

fast and easy way- start with a metal scouring pad to get the rough stuff off.

then use a piece of #120 grit water resistant sand paper to remove all th black stain.

the pan will be bright and shiny but may have some fine lines (harmless)remaining.

.if this bothers you repeat with Sand paper in the #200 to 300 grit range.

If you want it to look new then polish it further then just repeat with finer and finer grit paper. # 600 grit, 1000 grit etc until you get the look you want. For a good effective cooking surface #120 grit and polishing with a brillo pad will do the jobo n the cooking surfaces and outside bottom.with very little time and effort. If your doing the outside start with #600 grit and finish with #1000 grit or better to avoid scratches.

I have an All-Clad pan that came back from a camping trip covered in burnt-on food and soot. What worked is scrubbing with a copper scrubber to get off the burnt food, and then Barkeeper's Friend to restore the polish on the pan.

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You can soak it over night with baking soda and water inside the pan or just use a couple of SOS pads.

Never use oven cleaner on something that food will touch. It could poison you or your family.

I have one pan that is stainless steal. Had it for 20 years and it still looks great. Sometimes that happens with my kids too. I just use a spoon to scrape the crap out, and then use a s.o.s. pad on it and it looks wonderful again! It's the only pan I have that I can rely on to make fudge without sticking still! I don't know what I would do if I ever lost that pan! Good luck.

After you've soaked and scraped as much of it off with something like a copper scrubbing pad a few times, if there's anything left that is really stubborn, you can use an electric drill with a wire cup brush. This will require a heck of lot less elbow grease, and is a muy macho way to clean pots(!).

Don't really lean into it, let the brush and drill do its job. Use a medium to low speed on the drill. You can get a cup brush at your local hardware store, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. A brass wire cup brush would be a little gentler on the pan and still should cut through the gunk. See links for pics of what I'm talking about if you don't know already.

Oven cleaner would probley work but I don't know if it would be safe. Pour some boiling hot water in your sink and soak it over night than use a s.o.s pad on it. It should come off

Try WD-40.