How do you clean a saucepan lid?

hannahO_2

I may be neurotic but does anyone know how to clean a glass saucepan lid's rim? I am talking about SC type, a glass lid with metal around it. What I find is that over the years some food/sauce residues get stuck in between glass and metal rim and I'd like to clean it without breaking the metal bit. I don't have a dishwasher though. Any idea?

hot.chick

could you get an old toothbrush to it? maybe with some bicarb?

hannahO_2

There is not much gap to push toothbrush into it though.

fuzzybear01

I have this same problem and was using an old plastic straw to scrape the yucky stuff out

hannahO_2

fuzzybear01
Yeah, I just don't want my chicken stock mixed with last year's spag bol flavour...if you know what I mean.

janb5

Try dental floss to get at any of the bits caught between the lid and the rim.

emiff6

Have you tried soaking it overnight in a strong solution of biological washing powder? I got some manky looking pans from a village jumble sale, did this, then with a quick scrub next day, pans and lids were gleaming like new.

meritaten

Ive never had a slow cooker but did once have a set of pans with lids like you describe. a brillo pad sorted them out, after a good soak in boiling hot water with a good squirt of washing up liquid.
they are a bit of a pain arent they? for some reason the seal between the metal and the glass attracts gunk even if you only use them for veg!

hannahO_2

mnnn may be I didn't explain well.
The bit I want to clean is inside the metal rim where it is fused to the glass bit so I cannot touch the area with brillo pad nor toothbrush and I wouldn't know how you could insert dental floss in the area.

meritaten

I would try the overnight soak in bio washing powder hun, and maybe add some soda crystals or bicarb? anything which would make the water bubble a bit and penetrate where brushes etc cant?
but - against that - if nothing reaches it then you cooking with it shouldnt affect your food should it?
the only other thing I can think of would be one of those steam cleaners which has a fine nozzle attachment. if that doesnt shift it then i would assume nothing would!