Help needed - I let a saucepan boil dry...

Primrose

It's aluminium and looks burned and blackened but otherwise solid and fit for use.. What's the best method of restoring it back to as normal as possible?

quintwins

try socking it with denture tablets

Butterfly_Brain

Put some biological soap powder in, add water and bring to the boil then leave overnight.. it works

balmaiden

Cook some rhubarb in it. You will be amazed how well it brings up an old burnt pan.

marmiterulesok

You can fill the pan with ordinary coke (to cover up to where it is burnt).Then bring to the boil whilst cleaning it with an abrasive cloth/scourer.The burnt bits come off very easily.HTH.

peb

AS above - Coke or bicarb

McKneff

Ive tried the rhubarb trick but try the Coke first (it also worked for me) its cheaper than rhubarb.

jollymummy

I've managed to clean a burnt pan with bleach once, another time I mixed bleach with bicarb of soda left it on for a while and it cleaned off most of the burnt bits.

Sunnyday

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Put some biological soap powder in, add water and bring to the boil then leave overnight.. it works

I`ve used the above method a couple of times with great results, highly recommended and only a quick polish needed afterwards when washing. No elbow grease

SD

Penelope_Penguin

balmaiden wrote: »

Cook some rhubarb in it. You will be amazed how well it brings up an old burnt pan.

Just remind me not to eat rhubarb at yours :rotfl:

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to give you more ideas.