To ask if I can rescue my stainless steel saucepan

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I’m so sad, I got given a set of really good stainless steel saucepans over 25 years ago by my grandparents when I bought my first home.
DD decided to make some pasta and chucked the dry pasta in the already heating saucepan whilst waiting for the kettle to boil to tip the boiling water over the pasta. She subsequently forgot and we only knew when the pasta was smoking in the pan!!!
Well, this is the result, spot welded carbon on the bottom - I’ve tried boiling vinegar, baking soda scrub and it will not budge. Is there anything I can do? Il be gutted if it needs to be thrown

Washing powder for clothing - then soak and scrub gently

Bicarbonate of soda and water, bring to the boil and simmer for a bit until it softens and you can wire wool off. Might need a couple of goes.

Oven cleaner or Waitrose ceramic hob cleaner work. Put it in the pan, leave to soak for a while, and brillo pad off.

Coca Cola. Simmer - leave overnight - wipe clean. Never fails.

Not the most environmentally friendly option but almost neat bleach left for as long as necessary always works for me. You do need to monitor progress though - I once left a beloved stainless steel milkman, with at least three millimetres of solid burn, over the weekend. The bleach dissolved the burn but took a tiny chunk out of the metal too.

Metal coil scourer

Metal coil scourer

Bar keepers friend, haven't seen it for years. I've used soda crystals boiled up, also white vinegar with bicarbonate* of soda, left for a while and then the metal scourer.

It will come off in the end.

• Struggling to find these now in the shops.

Tomato sauce and leave it for a while

I once put a pan of burnt black smoking lentils outside, then forgot about it. It was a really hard frost and when I brought it in everything lifted out and left the pan spotless. Could you try filling it with something and freezing it

Use a dishwasher tablet as a scourer

Try fabric conditioner- Comfort or Lenor or similar. Add boiling water and let it soak overnight.
It worked for me on a saucepan that I thought was for the bin.

Boil bio washing powdering it

I would try a drop of oven pride on one of the marks to see what happens. It works on the coated stuff so don't see why it wouldn't work on ss.

Cap of bleach dissolved in warm water. Leave it to soak for 4-5 hours- that should lift it.

Another one saying biological clothes washing powder and a bit of warm water and leave to soak, the enzymes eat away at the stains and leave behind a shiny clean pan.

Soda crystals. Wilkinson’s sell them.

Soda crystals (laundry aisle of supermarkets), put in pan with boiling water, boil for a few minutes (water may well turn brown), turn off heat and let it soak. Scrub and repeat if necessary, I use this to degrease pans when I make popcorn - fine for stainless steel but don't try it with aluminium pans.

Simmer washing powder (and water!!!) in it.

At the risk of sounding like Mrs Hinch here, have you tried 'the pink stuff'? It was the only thing that got the staining (brown tea stains mostly) off my kitchen sink.

I’ve always stewed rhubarb to bring back a pan.

Bella Lakeland sells Barkeepers Friend in all the variants thereof. Try Amazon for bicarbonate if you need larger quantities than the baking section provides. I think you can find soda crystals in most supermarkets.

Soak it overnight in a strong solution of bio clothes washing powder like Ariel. That usually gets rid of anything burned onto my pans. I use it to keep the outsides nice and clean.

Elbow grease has saved one of our pans, the spray rather than just effort but that helps of course lol .

Bar Keeper’s Friend works miracles.