We’ve all been there. We get a little bit distracted while making dinner, and before you know it, oops! The pot is completely burnt! And it is the most awful stuff to try to scrub off!
This is the result of some rice that clearly didn’t turn out! (For future reference, trying to flavour your rice with tomato soup does NOT work…)
So that dinner we had bread instead of rice, which is so frustrating! I scraped out the burnt rice and soaked the pot overnight.
Remember last week when I cleaned my kitchen hood? That was a LOT of scrubbing, and I just didn’t feel like scrubbing that pot! I was looking for a solution that was scrub free! And this worked amazingly well! It really is the easiest way to clean burnt pots!
I heard about a method of cleaning your old cookie sheets with peroxide and baking soda (which I’m also going to do at some point), and I thought, why not? 
So I poured in a generous amount of hydrogen peroxide and sprinkled on a nice pile of baking soda. Then I swirled it around to get it to mix. 
Then I did absolutely nothing and just left it alone. 
The hydrogen peroxide and baking soda just lifted up the burnt residue! 
I let is sit for 6 hours and the burnt residue just dissolved off the pot! I used my kitchen scrub brush to wipe it away. 
Some of the really caked on burnt stuff took a teeny tiny bit of scrubbing with a sponge, but it came off really easily. And when it was all done, the pot looked brand new! 
So let’s see that again: 
This is one of those times that made me go, wow! Soaking the pot with stubborn burnt residue for 6 hours with hydrogen peroxide and baking soda just lifted the burnt stuff away! Amazing!
Add just enough water to cover the bottom of the pot, bring to boil. Use a wooden spoon or even a silicon spatula to loosen the caked on burned parts. It takes very little effort, probably less than the scrubbing you did.
What you’re doing is an age-old technique called “deglazing” the pan, and only takes about 6 minutes versus 6 hours.
It’s a technique for any good gravy (assuming you haven’t burned it first).
Used this on my enamel stovetop. We had used a heat diffuser under our tagine & ended up with baked gunk on the stovetop which would just not budge. This worked a breeze! Thanks so much!!
Girls -you are doing it all wrong! One burnt pot – one husband…a few hours later one clean pot!
Could I use this method on black so call nonstick pan??
most stains and goo will come off with a soap powder boil up session and left to go cool. bio powder seems to work better and is cheaper anyway compared to liquid and disolving wash balls now selling for machine washing. I use very little cleaning products and make a few items double up on jobs. use this for soaking tea stained cups or stained beer/wine demijohns and air corks. Even left sprinkled in your sink so it is damp overnight to clean the stains, but bleach will do the job better and whilst you are at it soak any stained whites same time like tea cloths and dish cloths, especiay if like me you have a jam making session and that stains mega time. Even tea cloths get more dingy after a while so bring them back to white. stored linen or sun dried whites will go yellow and a bleach will help.. my late mum used to say bleach will leave holes eventually so not sure if it does rot the fibres or not as I do not use it too often for whitening, a good hot boil was her way and she had beautiful whites, but we hated washday with all the steam and doors open with cold whistling in and then later us girls got to doing 4 lines worth of ironing, so guess who buys stuff that is easy care. I refuse to iron and my all male family have to iron their own crumpled shirts and jeans. They are now well trained….
didnt work at all 4 me laft it on 12 hrs was a cookie sheet got at sale so maybe doesn’t work if really old burns
Add baking soda to a little wate – about 2-3 inches and boil for 10 min – crap all gone with a wipe!
I like these scour pads as they do the job on both the sink and stainless pots/pans, and the order was filled quickly. Just be forewarned that I ran a a pad through the dishwasher based on other reviews. If you do, then remove it before the dry cycle as it shrank.
Appreciate it!
THAT is the best method. The heat and baking soda work together so that the pan comes clean and ready to wash right after you load the dishwasher! Most of my pans are just shiny stainless steel and this is the best and fastest method for both the inside and the outside.