How to effectively clean a burnt stainless steel pot?

Every day everyone cooks something in the kitchen. For breakfast - porridge, for lunch - soup, for dinner - roast. Stainless steel cookware is very popular and is found in every home. Surely your porridge or some other dish has burnt at least once in your life. It is not so easy to scrub pots after such a nuisance. But if you know the little secrets, you can quickly and easily return any dishes to their previous shine and cleanliness.

When choosing utensils for your kitchen, in which you will cook, first of all, you pay attention to the quality of the material from which the frying pan or saucepan is made. It is also practical and durable.

Stainless steel dishes have been very popular at all times, and there are quite understandable reasons for this:

• Firstly, it is an attractive appearance.
• Secondly, it is a high quality and safe material that does not emit various harmful substances during cooking.
• Thirdly, it is very convenient and quick to cook in such dishes, as it heats up almost instantly.

Any high-quality cookware, including stainless steel, periodically encounters serious contamination. Of course, if you carefully monitor the dishes, then there should be no serious problems. But everything happens in life.

Most housewives, especially forgetful ladies, very often forget that porridge or soup is being prepared on the stove. As a result, the dish boils away, begins to burn, and all this is reflected in a terrible way in the shine and cleanliness of the pan itself.

When the porridge or jam burns, the bottom of the pot is not easy to clean. Carbon deposits, which often form on the walls of dishes due to strong fires or for other reasons, are also not easy to get rid of.

As soon as terrible dirt appears on your favorite dishes, which only half an hour ago shone with cleanliness, the question arises - how to wash it, how to clean it. You can clean the pan from the burn with any means, which are presented in a wide range in stores with household chemicals.

If you decide to use professional products, then take into account several important nuances, thanks to which you will not only return the cleanliness of the dishes, but don't ruin it completely:

• it is better to choose a chemical agent for cleaning not powder. Particles of such an abrasive agent can leave scratches on the surface of the pan, after which its appearance will no longer be so perfect;
• give preference to gel or liquid products. Before purchasing it, be sure to read the instructions to make sure that this tool can really wash pots in which food is prepared;

• scrapers, hard brushes, metal sponges - it is better to refuse this. Of course, they will help to quickly and effectively get rid of serious dirt on the dishes, but at the same time, they will leave scratches on the surface of kitchen utensils;
• before you start cleaning the pan with one or another tool, see the instructions to get everything right. Do cleaning exclusively with gloves if you do not want to ruin the delicate skin of your hands;
• work only with a soft sponge. Never use a sponge with which you wash the dishes. Use a separate sponge to clean pots and pans.

In addition to the fact that a heavily burnt pan can be easily cleaned to a shine with the help of special household chemicals, you can do this by other methods. At home, with the help of available tools, you can easily return the dishes to their original shine and cleanliness.

Sometimes burnt food particles remain at the bottom of the dishes, which do not leave with ordinary dishwashing detergent. In this case, you will be saved the most common salt, which is always in the house. Fill the bottom of the dish with cold water and leave for half an hour. Then, after draining the water, fill up everything that is burnt at the bottom with ordinary salt. Leave the pan in this form for two hours. After that, you just need to rinse off the salt by lightly rubbing the inside of the dish with a sponge. You will see that all burnt food particles will easily disappear.

Every modern housewife actively uses vinegar not only in the preparation of any dishes, but also for cleaning various products. For example, plain table vinegar, which many people love to use with dumplings, perfectly relieves pots from burning.

If the pollution is too strong, then there is another simple but effective way. You will need again the vinegar you usually use in salads... Pour half a glass of vinegar into a dirty dish and rub half a bar of regular laundry soap there. Then put the pan on the fire and boil for half an hour. Even stubborn dirt will leave your favorite dishes, and they will once again shine with the sheen of cleanliness.

Sometimes problematic contaminants, such as carbon deposits, appear on the outside of the dishes and cannot be wiped off with regular dishwashing gel. We have a great method that helps many housewives to cope with this problem - this is soda.

Baking soda easily removes all kinds of dirt. Place a small amount of baking soda on a sponge and gently rub the inside and outside of the pan in a circular motion. All pollution will disappear right before your eyes.

If serious contamination has formed on the outside, then soak the pan in a large container so that the bottom is in the prepared solution. Dilute baking soda in water and soak the bottom of the pot, then clean as usual.

Sometimes streaks appear on the surface of the pan, resembling a rainbow. You can get rid of them with vinegar, which must be diluted in water. For half a glass of warm water - a tablespoon of vinegar. In this mixture, moisten a sponge and wipe the surface of the dishes. If there is no vinegar in the house, but there is citric acid, then it is quite possible to clean the dishes with it. Also, add a spoonful to half a glass of water. citric acid, wait until it is completely dissolved and you can start cleaning.

Stainless steel cookware needs special care. If you do everything right, then you will not have to spend several hours of your precious time trying to get rid of serious pollution.

Every time you cook lunch or dinner, wash the pot thoroughly. Do not regret the detergent and thoroughly rinse the dishes both inside and outside. In addition, remember that such dishes should be washed only after they have completely cooled down, so as not to spoil their appearance completely.

Try not to wash these pans in dishwashers, as they often use too high a temperature. It is better to wash stainless steel products in warm water using a soft sponge and a regular detergent with which you wash your dishes every day.

After you wash the dishes, be sure to dry it dry with a soft towel. Leaving the pan to dry on its own can cause drips over time to form into dark spots, which you may have difficulty washing off.

If you want your pan to always shine and shine, as it did in the store at the time of purchase, there is an effective way. Take a small wedge of raw potatoes or freshly peeled peels and rub them over the surface of the crockery. You will see how miraculously it will shine and shine again.

The porridge burned out in the morning - for sure, this situation is familiar to many of you. In this case, a spoiled breakfast spoils the mood, and spoiled dishes, which are not easy to clean, further increase the negative effect. Tips and tricks from experts will definitely come in handy:

• burnt porridge or burnt jam - all this negatively affects the cleanliness of the dishes. Regular activated carbon will help get rid of such contaminants. Five to six tablets need to be crushed into powder, add a little water to make a thick gruel. This mixture should be applied to problem areas of the dishes and left for about thirty to forty minutes. Then rub it lightly with a sponge and rinse;

• many housewives leave coffee grounds just in case. Or to put it another way, drunk coffee. It can be used as a body scrub and also as an excellent cleanser for kitchen utensils. Apply the remnants of brewed coffee to a wet sponge and gently, without pressing, rub all dirt;
• The original shine of stainless steel dishes can be restored by ammonia or ordinary potatoes. Above, we described the potato method that helps bring back the shine. In addition, if you fill a saucepan with water, add a few drops of ammonia to it and boil everything for twenty minutes, it will shine like new again;
• expensive stainless steel pots are always accompanied by instructions for the care of the dishes. Don't ignore her.

• The peel of a regular green apple will help restore the shine to the dishes. Rub the surface, walls with a peel and it will shine again.In addition, if you put the cleaners in a saucepan, add a little water and boil for ten to fifteen minutes, this will help rid the dishes of light dirt;
• Stains that cannot be removed with regular dishwashing detergent can be easily removed with toothpaste. Apply the paste to the problem area, rub with a soft sponge and the dishes will be perfectly clean again;

• grease stains that form during cooking on the outside of the pan can be easily washed with special products that are available in every hardware store. Grease removers for kitchen utensils easily deal with such problems. But before using them, carefully read the instructions;
• soda ash and simple laundry soap will help get rid of serious stains. All you need to do is grate the soap, add a couple of teaspoons of this baking soda, add water and boil the pan for half an hour.

For information on how to wash a stainless steel pot from carbon deposits with citric acid in 30 seconds, see the next video.