How to remove burnt on sugar?

Andybez38

Does burnt on sugar stick to a non stick pan???

martindow

Never tried this, but apparently if you givea pan a thorough soaking and then put it out in the garden on its side, slugs and snails come along and lick it clean by the morning. Probably best to then give it a good washing up before you use it next!

AnniMag

I recently left my pan soaking overnight with the base of the pan covered in vinegar .The following morning I put a couple of teaspoons of bicarb of soda in[It fizzed beautifully].I left that overnight again.It still hadn't worked so I emptied that out and put some water in and brought it up to a boil.When it went cold I was suprised to find the burnt remains had kind of blistered and I was able to scrap the black offf the bottom of the pan with a small bladed vegetable paring knife.At last a clean pan.

Methuselah987

I found this old thread after I had let my marmalade boil for a little too long. I was left with some lovely dark marmalade but a pan with a very black bottom.

When it burns, sugar ceases to be water soluble. However, I tried boiling up water and leaving it to cool as suggested by one post. I did not find blisters but I was able to scrape off the residue with the paddle of the breadmaker; it is harder than the residue but softer than the stainless steel of the pan. Whether the boiling water helped I don't know. I might have been able to scrape it anyway.

Methuselah987

Ben84

Burnt material can also be removed with oven cleaner. If it's very tough, spray it and bag it in an airtight bag so that the oven cleaner doesn't dry out and keeps working, then leave it overnight.

Timewarper

I've burned marmalade onto the bottom of my lovely, really big all-purpose pan (it's stainless steel, I think and holds about 7 litres - it's huge!)

The first batch I made worked brilliantly so I decided to make some a week after. I made the mistake of setting the lid at an angle when it boiled up and not watching it as closely as the first batch. Loads of it stuck in the bottom.

I've tried all sorts of things to get it off and now I need to make a batch of courgette marmalade. I've scrubbed, tried picking off bits with a knife blade (a nono I know but this is desperation), I've boiled washing up liquid and water, vinegar and bicarb, water, vinegar, bicarb and washing up liquid, various kitchen cleaners that are meant to get anything off anything. I even ordered some Dr Bronner's soap off the tinterwebs after an on-line recommendation and now I'm hitting a brick wall. I don't want anything else to stick but I don't want to throw the pan away either as I don't know if I'll get another one just like it and other than that (now) bit of burned marmalade there's nothing else wrong with it. It's not got as much burned material on as it did but I think there's still enough on there to make things stick.

Does anyone have any totally fool-proof cleaning tips, sort of sand-blasting?

Battleaxe44

I am not pulling your leg with the first suggestion.

Bury the saucepan in your garden and leave it for a week. It does work when you disinter the saucepan and wash it.

Second method and more conventional.. half fill the saucepan with water and bring it to the boil, then add Bi Carb soda to water, it will froth so maybe put the saucepan in the sink or outside, then let the lot cool in the saucepan. Most of the burnt on gunk will come away, when you wash it. You can repeat this until the burnt stuff comes off.

Anne_Marie_2

Have you tried scrubbing with one of these?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Cleaning-Steel-Spiral-Scourer/dp/B00BG8XZRK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1377679625&sr=8-2&keywords=pot+scourer
You can get them everywhere. I swear by them if anything gets stuck to my stainless steel pans.

I would try to soften up the gunk first a bit, by putting boiling water and leaving for a while.

janb5

I would put some biological powder in the bottom of the pan add slightly less than half a pan of water and bring to boil. Leave it to simmer for about 20 - 30 minutes- this should dislodge most of the gunk. HTH.

seabright

janb5 wrote: »

I would put some biological powder in the bottom of the pan add slightly less than half a pan of water and bring to boil. Leave it to simmer for about 20 - 30 minutes- this should dislodge most of the gunk. HTH.

This is what I do too, it works really well. I keep a packet of Tesco Value Bio Powder in the kitchen, just for dealing with burnt stuff that the dishwasher won't clean off.