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Cleaning Burnt On Food

January 31, 2012 By Gwen Brown 3 Comments

I found this little kitchen tip ‘jewel’ on Pinterest today: Apartment Therapy’s post on How to Clean Burnt Pans With Vinegar and Baking Soda.I was so excited to try this!  Providentially, while I was pinning this tip, my son was upstairs burning the grits.  Breakfast was saved by the ‘burnt beans’ kitchen tip.  But the bottom of the pot was rather encrusted.  Indeed, rather more burnt than the frying pan of my apartment dwelling friend.

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My ‘normal’ is to put the stinky pot outside, and save it for a ‘crabby chore’.  But instead, I decided to field test the new tip for cleaning burnt on food, and here are the amazing results!

You’ll need vinegar, baking soda, and a scrubby pad.  Put a shallow layer of water into the bottom of the pot, and add about a cup of vinegar.  I used apple cider, but I’d wager that any kind of vinegar would do.

Put the pot back onto the stove top, and bring the water/vinegar mix to a boil.  My kitchen sort of smells like dirty socks, but if this works, it’s worth it, right?

Right.

Once you get a boil going, then you get to do the fun part.

I’m about to shake in a bit of baking soda…

………..and………………………..WHOOOoooOOOSH!!!!

Now THAT was fun!  I bet the kids will stand in line to clean my burnt pans from now on. <waggling eyebrows>

I scraped the bottom a bit with my flipper, just to see if it was loosening up…it was!  Look at this!  It even smells different once the baking soda hits.

I spent less than a minute scrubbing off the remainder…easy peasy.  No elbow grease needed.

Something about the acidic vinegar, the heat, and then the rapid ph change from baking powder really softened the previously ‘permanent’ baked on finish.


And minutes later…

Uh-maze-ing.

 

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  1. Mary says

    August 3, 2016 at 6:34 AM

    Thanks! I burned chokecherries in my grandma’s pan. Your tip helped me get more crust out than any other method. I will give it a second try.

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  2. Julie says

    March 2, 2018 at 4:33 PM

    I’ve never tried this with the vinegar, but water and baking soda simmered in the covered pot will do the same thing. Ive saved many pans without having to scrub them by letting my stove do the work for me. Simmering baking soda and water will also take tea stains out of a pot. Great stuff.

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  3. Lisa says

    October 14, 2018 at 12:02 PM

    Thanks! Removed some caked on Malt-O-Meal with vinegar only. Will use baking soda for more stubborn and inadvertant “food-finishes.”

    Reply

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