How the heck do I get this pan clean?!

[knitterati]

Need some sage Mumsnet advice here. DH kindly burnt some rice onto a pan. Boiled dry kind of thing.

The bottom of the pan is black and a scourer is not doing the job. Tried some liquid soda crystals, but that hasn't worked either. It's not non-stick or anything fancy.

Any ideas?

boiling water and bleach?

Try soaking it overnight with a good sprinkling of bio washing up powder.

Sorry. Washing powder.

I swear by fairy power spray overnight and a brillo

you could try boiling some soapy water in it...what finish is it? if plain metal, I find the old-fashioned metal scourers work very well on stainless steel roasting tins

Fairy power spray left for 30 mins or whatever it says gets a lot of really burnt on black stuff off the enamelled grill pan I keep in the bottom of the oven (also using the metal scourers)

Water and bio washing powder, bring to boil on hob, black should float off.

Yep,soaking in bio washing powder will do the trick.

Make DH do it?

Seriously though, I wouldn't boil bleach. Based on what I remember from chemistry class and a quick google, I'm fairly certain that will release toxic vapors that are very damaging to lungs.

I would soak in hot water with washing up liquid and then use elbow grease and steel wool. Which brings me back round to: make DH do it.

I have the same problem but my doing. With popcorn.

I tried the vinegar and bicarb one. Boil vinegar and water then add bicarb. Didn't work.

I'll try the washing powder one but I did soak it in that too. I'll try boiling with it.

Good luck OP.

We have stainless steel pans, and I've used mr muscle foaming oven cleaner on them when I've run out of ideas.

Some of this was left by the previous owners of our last house - had never seen it before but I used to use it with great success on pans.
www.lakeland.co.uk/20564/Astonish-Oven-and-Cookware-Cleaner?src=gfeed&gclid=CLLemKrIuLYCFYVMpgodgiEAYA

In my experience leave it outside the back door for about a month while fully intending to sort it out.

When you bring it back it the hard black burnt on stuff will mysteriously wash out with a quick rinse.

Not seriously recommending this although it did work for me.

If it is stainless, a green nylon scourer and a drop of WUL will get it clean. If it is very bad you can scratch at it with a wooden spatula or something.

Stainless is very hard wearing so will stand up to severe cleaning, but avoid scratching it with a knife or similar.

bicarb of soda and vinegar - leave it 20 mins and it really helps get it off

I didn't mean boil the bleach. Just a squirt of bleach, with water from the kettle.

salt and vinegar here - I leave it overnight then use a brillo pad

Put it through a hot dishwasher cycle (with all the oven shelves and stuff with burnt on grease) and as soon as the cycle finishes (while it's still hot) give it a wipe with a gentle scourer. It usually wipes off easily.

I recently boiled some tangerines in water in a Le Cruset pan and forgot about them. The result was a cm of burnt jam! Nothing chemical has worked. I have just boiled more and more water in it and all is fine now. Probably took about 15 attempts, I just boiled up a pan of water every time I cooked anything.

Dishwasher tab fill with water and boil.

boil some water with a dissolved bio laundry tablet in. works wonders.

You lot rock! Thanks! DH will be busy with washing powder & the pan tonight!

Dp just got ours clean tonight with a knife. It's enamel and cleaned up like new.

Astonish, great stuff

Yes to. Bio washing powder, squirt of washing liquid and boiling water.leave overnight

I did this last week. I put some coke in the saucepan and heated it up and the black stuff came off easy.