How to Clean the Bottom of a Pot or Pan!

cooking is great screwing up a dish not so good burning food at the bottom of your pan disaster stick around and i'll show you the quickest and easiest way to clean your pots pans and casserole dishes what you just watched was the introduction to a video i made way back in march of 2011. it was actually one of the first cleaning videos we uploaded here on youtube and in it i demonstrate an effective way to clean the inside of a burnt pot or pan using dish liquid and baking soda it's a great trick and as you can see it keeps my pans looking like i never ever burn food in them however the other side of the pan that's a different story all together the bottoms of my pans are covered in scorch marks because clearly i'm a great cook so today we're gonna clean them and we're gonna try four different methods to clean them using ketchup bar keepers friend cream of tartar and baking soda we'll be cleaning four pans all of which could do with a good cleaning two of them are stainless steel and the other two are cast iron the sponges that we'll be using for all of the tests are specifically non-scratch sponges [Music] we'll kick things off with the ketchup or catsup depending where on the world you are i read that it's the acid in the ketchup which aids in the cleaning process so we'll see how that one works next we'll apply some bar keepers friend which has been around since 1882 it's a powdered cleanser and it essentially specializes in cleaning scorch marks okay that's not entirely true but it's really good stuff now we'll use some cream of tartar i made a video a while back that shows how great cream of tartar is that removing those marks on plates however i'm interested in seeing how this stuff does on these pan bottoms and we'll wrap it up with some baking soda a perennial favorite here at clean myspace i'm not sure how baking soda works but i know it involves magic okay we'll let that sit for a minute and while that's happening i did want to mention that i read on the internet that there are more than a few people who suggest using oven cleaner to tackle these scorch marks i chose to exclude this method because it can actually void the warranty on your pan and i'm not down with that especially when you're spending good money on your pants the ketchup didn't do much i'm pretty sure i applied it correctly and scrubbed it enough to establish that it would take me a long time to clean the whole plan using ketchup on a scale from 1 to 10 ketchup ghetza [Music] it was very impressive how a bar keeper's friend did it cleaned everything away including the stuff the ketchup left behind and it did it really quickly [Music] bar keeper's friend gets a very impressive cream of tartar did a boring average job it did a better job shining the stainless steel pan than actually cleaning away the scorch marks so it's brighter but it still has all those stains cream of tartar gets a boring kind of like a bad first date [Music] finally the baking soda of course it did a really great job on both the stainless steel and cast iron pans baking soda gets a really great and a check for 12 bucks but i gotta hand it to bar keeper's friend the baking soda did a really great job but in this case this stuff here did an outstanding job so i'm asking you clean my space nation should i do more tests with bar keepers friends let me know in the comment box below i did want to take this opportunity to point out that you might not be able to remove scorch marks and in the case of this pan which i purchased from a thrift store specifically for this video none of the methods that we just tested worked on the bottom of this pan and trust me i gave it all the grease my little elbows had to offer so the moral of the story some pans cannot be saved and this is one of them this right here is a comment box and you can use it to let us know what your cleaning questions are just fill it in and maybe we'll answer your question in an upcoming video there's a button down there that lets me know you care so click it if you like this video this right here is a subscription button and when you click it magical things happen thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Clean My Space

Views: 2,617,642

Keywords: cleaning, how to, how to clean, pots and pans, pots, pans, Cookware And Bakeware (Literature Subject), clean a pan, clean a pot, clean a stained pan, how to clean a pan, how to clean a stained pan, Le Creuset (Brand), calphalon, lodge cast iron, ketchup, barkeeper's friend, BKF, baking soda, cream of tartar, cast iron pan, enamelled pan, stainless steel pan, Non-stick Pan (Culinary Tool), clean my space, cleaning tips, Cooking (Award Discipline)

Id: GJwS_MmgdDI

Length: 5min 2sec (302 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 11 2014