To ask if I can rescue my stainless steel saucepan

[Sharkattack2]

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

Shiny sinks. Much soaking. It will go eventually. Good luck.

The Pink Stuff works I have found.

Heat up some Coca Cola ( cheaper the better) in the pan then leave to go cold. It's worked for me every time!

Carbon-Off from Amazon! Bit expensive, and stinks, but it WORKS.

My daughter is a keen amateur cook, and left a thick black crust in a pan after burning popcorn. I tried Coca-Cola, the Pink Stuff, all sorts of home remedies: nothing.

I had to do two applications of Carbon-Off, but it shifted everything, and all of my 15-year-old pans are shiny again. Really good stuff.

I just continue to use it when they look like that and eventually they go away :) Doesn't affect the taste of the food.