Cleaning Secrets - Pots and Pans Burnt on muck

  Let's just face it we have to clean pots and pans every once in a while or our food just doesn't cook correctly, or evenly. Most of us don't like wearing ourselves out trying to scrub the burnt on muck from the bottom, and sometimes sides, of the pan. Well Good News I have a helpful trick. Let me start with saying that peroxide is one of my favorite cleaning products, I also love to use baking soda for all kinds of things. In fact I buy both at a club store in bulk, my husband does not understand this but he doesn't complain about it after things are clean!

  Before I bought a deep fryer we used a medium sauce pan to make french fries or my famous onion rings. It does not take long to get quite a coat of burnt on grease when deep frying. It is one of the hardest things I have had to clean. I scrubbed and scrubbed, I did only part at a time because my hand got tired. I only had a circle clean in the middle of the pan. This was very irritating, to say the least.

 Now I have my secret weapon, peroxide mixed with baking soda. This combination is amazing. Do wear gloves because it can severely dry out your skin. I do not give exact measurements with this because you want to make the amount you need for the job you are doing. I start with about twice the amount of baking soda it would take to cover the pan. Then add enough peroxide to make a paste, about the consistency of toothpaste. You want it a little thin but so much that it will run right off the pan. Cover the pan with the paste and let sit, I usually leave it for about an hour.

After an hour I put on my dish washing gloves and grab my scrub bud metal scouring pad. ( I do sell the ones I use because of how much I love them. I have been using my current one for two months there isn't a sign of rust and it is still going strong, plenty of scrub left in it.)

Gently scrub off the burnt grease with the scouring pad and paste. If your paste has dried and hardened don't worry you can just sprinkle on a bit more peroxide. When you are done you will not believe how great the pan looks and how little effort it took. Mine almost look new.

You can see in these pictures that there is a beveled edge to this pan where there is still some burnt grease. I made another paste a bit thicker so it would not roll down the sides, and it all came of too. I also cleaned my bacon pan. I do not have a before picture of this one but it was so clean when I was done I want to share.

I mentioned that I do sell the scrub buds that I use. 

You can get them here 

http://www.amway.com/StrockShop/Shop/Product/Product.aspx/Legacy-of-Clean-Scrub-Buds-Scouring-Pads?itemno=110490

Or Go To 

 www.amway.com/strockshop  then use the search bar on the top right, type in scrub buds