Who knows about burnt pans? BLW disaster...

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Junior is having so much fun with BLW. he loves steamed baby courgettes, we have (today) discovered. Unfortunately, I am having less fun with my ceramic hob. Especially since carrots take SOOOOOO much longer than courgettes.

Must clean pans before DH comes home to laugh and ridicule. Again. There is charcoal. And brown stains up the sides. No holes though.

Blardy BLW. I'm sure Aitch has warned of this somewhere but I never read instructions.

There must be, surely, something you can do with chicken poo or bicarb or pigeon's tears?

biological washing powder

and use the microwave in future

Cola Cola soak and hey presto lovely clean pans!

learn to love the micro...

btw if you had a microwave steriliser they are GREAT for blw.

bio? coke? hmm don't have any but excellent tips... will nip to shop.

hmm, I'm sure kim n aggie gave a tip about cleaning burnt pans with half a potato and washing up liquid. Or was it rusty pans...

or a bowl with a plate on top works quite well

I am saving up for one of these (well, no I am not savign up for that because it's only a tenner but I am saving up to do the Lakeland order that will include that)

I have an electric steriliser (used about once!) - will that work?

We do have a micro rice steamer, guess that would do too...

I think a dishwasher tablet and a bit of water. Leave to dissolve.

google says boil up some coca cola in it. hth

See Mrs B that's what I was doing (colander over pan) and that's when it all went HORRIBLY wrong (watching for choking, laughing at courgette delight, forgetting about carrots, burnt carrot juice...)

put water and washing up liquid in the pan and turn the hob on low. Hopefully the burn will lift off.

Maybe coke, bio powder AND a DW tablet would turn them into wonderful new stainless steel pans from the conran shop?

The number of times I've ruined pans because of Mumsnet....

i bet your micro rice steamer would be great. i have a micro fish steamer i sometimes use as well, it's v quick to do a portion of salmon for dd and fishy smells are trapped in the maching.

Iliketomoveitmoveit... I wonder if the bubbles from the heated liquid would create a bubble bath style foam though?

I'd planned to use the silicone one in the microwave...

James, If I forget about the coke boiling, I'm blaming you, mate.

set the blardy timer!

I wish I'd added a disclaimer now....

Don't they say you can clean your loo and jewellery with coke etc?

Hello MrsBadger, how are you and your lo doing these days?

Can't believe no one knows this.....

Pour in some neat bleach. Leave a couple of hours while you Mumsnet. It disappears.

Actually I taught that to my MIL, and she is Mrs Clean. God did that make me feel smug

Not the part about going on Mumsnet, obviously.

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES!

Now NO-ONE is actually going to believe I did this since I'm such a(n) attention seeker blagger story teller.

But I'm afraid to say I did, actually, er, manage to...

...burn the fucking coke.

Oh. My. God. And I knew you wouldn't believe me so I've posted the evidence on my blog

DH at least got a promotion today so we'll be able to afford another lovely John Lewis pan. Cos I'm not touching any more heated appliances in my life.

I definitely missed out on the housekeeping gene. And a considerable number of braincells. AND I have a fucking PhD FFS. Mind you, that's no guarantee of intelligence is it?