How To Clean A Dutch Oven: Our Results After Testing 3 Different Methods!

seriously i thought i asked you to clean this [Music] welcome to crocs in the kitchen i'm jessica and i am brian so today's video is actually inspired by you guys yes as you guys well know we love to use our dutch oven which is of course an eight quart martha stewart uh blue dutch oven that jessica bought me for christmas birthday i think it was christmas because you broke our other dutch oven but the other dutch one trying to use it as a tofu press yes that is true so this is uh this is the one that we've been using for a good good while now and we absolutely love it we use it for practically everything because it is an amazing piece of cookware that uh hopefully most of you guys have something similar yeah it's enameled cast iron i don't know if you said that or not yes um it really really holds on to heat well uh it you can use it in an oven you can use it on a stove you can use it on a campfire actually too it's it's really an impressive piece of cookware and i absolutely love this thing but in the last video a few of you guys commented and said hey that thing's filthy you should probably clean it and i'm inclined to agree i mean i always tell brian it's filthy but it doesn't really it's just stained on the bottom like it doesn't really affect the food it just looks bad in you know videos and stuff obviously but we've actually had people say they were glad to see that ours looked like theirs did and that made them feel better about their lives so it works both ways but i love cleaning and i love a clean kitchen and so i was like you know what would be a fun like different kind of video for us to do let's try to clean the dutch oven so we're gonna try a bunch of different methods by we i mean brian he's going to do all the scrubbing and hopefully by the end of this video there is a clean new shiny dutch oven yep but all of the ones that we are trying were uh suggested either from martha stewart or uh from other sources and including uh a couple of you guys out there who suggested that we try the bar keeper's friend uh but we are saving this one for a last resort if the other ones don't actually work uh but i figured you know what let's get to cleaning okay so the first method that we are going to do comes right from the box each uh dutch oven from martha stewart comes with a little card that gives you little tips and suggestions on how to clean and how to maintain your dutch oven this one reads very very simply hand wash only not dishwasher safe use a sponge and warm soapy water dry immediately after washing uh so that is the first step that i'm going to do i do not have much hope that this is going to clean it but this is the first step that we are going for for my cleaning purposes i have some water i have some uh standard just dish soap and uh we have here a scrub mommy right yes scrub mommy so there's a scrub daddy and there's a scrub mommy scrub mommy's got a sponge side and then this cool side that uh firms up when it's cold and it softens when it's hot and so it's like you can kind of gauge how you need the actually use it i actually really really love this thing this has become one of my all-time favorite things just for cleaning any normal dishes and stuff like that because it can scrub off stuck on food and it can use a sponge that perfect little device to actually pick up for cleaning so if you don't have one i actually suggest that you do get one but let's actually clean this thing first so lid off [Music] all right as i suspected that didn't really do a whole lot you can see right there it's still all that stuff on the bottom of the pan and it didn't do anything so we are going to move on to step number two all right attempt number two happens to come from the martha stewart website uh on an article that says uh one of the better ways to clean this is using some baking powder and uh simmering it with a little bit of water in the pan and then cleaning it like normal so that's what we're gonna try now [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so that works a bit it didn't work great uh you can see here that it still has plenty of stuff inside of it and it's not exactly like super clean but there are some little white bits that are showing up there so you know it did clean a bit maybe if you had just you know burnt something or had had sauteed it and it was starting to look like that that would work pretty well you know especially for maintenance but for what i've done to this pan i think i need to go a step further so let's get on to the next one all right this next one comes from a website called thekitchen.com they tried five different ways of cleaning a pot and this was their favorite way to do it so it requires four cups of water that are brought to a boil and uh two tablespoons of baking soda and uh and then using a wooden spoon to uh you know use it on the bottom of this pan so that's what we're gonna try now [Music] [Music] so there you have it that last one worked like a charm it was fantastic check this out look at all this right i'm gonna throw up some other close footage there too but man that sucker got super clean we actually ran it twice just because we wanted to see if we could clean the sides and actually get it uh get it looking pretty good too and it worked fantastic like i'm super happy with that in fact i'm so happy with that i'm not even gonna try the bar keeper's friend although if you have used it before we were a little concerned uh because in the instructions it doesn't say anything about enameled cast iron being uh you know able to be used with it uh but if you have used it on something like this before and it worked out great please let us know in the comments below and we'll keep it in mind for whenever we have to clean it the next time around um but i think i can actually probably just get to the clothes here right it's all clean now i get to dirty it up again with more cooking after this which is going to be great so uh subscribe to the 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cast iron dutch oven too you

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Length: 9min 54sec (594 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 04 2021