How to safely clean a stained Le Creuset enamel pot or pan

look or say enamel-coated cast iron is incredible cooking surface but it can be very difficult to clean even if you scrub it really well the interior of the pots and pans just get stained over time there's really no good way to get it out I've found that using bar keeper's friend can be effective but it is very labor-intensive here you can see the effect of one minute of scrubbing with bar keeper's friend so yeah not too effective and rather unpleasant even though a bar keeper's friend is generally pretty effective one of the popular recommendations for cleaning the inside year later say pots and pans is mixing baking soda with hydrogen peroxide the chemical reaction created by the two combined with boiling is a safe and effective way to lift stains off of the inside of the enamel but it isn't super powerful the good news is it won't harm the liquor say and it will lighten up the color of the inside right now I'm just adding the hydrogen peroxide and then I'm going to simmer the mixture over a medium heat for about 15 minutes I'm gonna give the mixture a quick stir and then I'll cut the video ahead every few minutes and you could see some of the stain pull up over time the problem really is that the stain pulls up kind of where the heat is the most intense but isn't particularly effective so what I'm gonna do now is scour the bottom with just water and see if it loosened up any of that stain spoilery didn't the scrubbing is you know maybe a little bit more effective than before but it's definitely not particularly effective there if I wanted to get this stain out I would have a maybe half an hour of serious scrubbing ahead of me you probably get the point now but I just wanted to test everything out the second pot I have this one has a clean inside but you could see it has a stained bottom and it has a sort of a mark on this right side where something acidic maybe sat on it so again the bar keeper's friend did okay but was unable to get that acid stain out and it really only lightened the shade of the bottom just a little bit so we'll move on to the hydrogen peroxide so same setup as before a cup of water about two tablespoons of baking soda and 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide and now you could see that once again the effect is similar the color of the stain lightens but is not totally removed here it is in the sink after a 15 minute simmer the mixture the stain around the outside where it starts to turn up really didn't change at all but on the flat bottom it's definitely a little bit lighter than acid mark that's now on the left it was pretty much unchanged from before now I'm scrubbing to see if anything was kind of could be pulled up at this point but it's really not working so yeah the color is better than before but it's still not great probably should have just left it alone though it does look a little bit better and I'll just close out the video with a quick before-and-after

Channel: Unsharpen

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Keywords: le creuset, bar keepers friend, stain, how to, howto, pot, pan, enamel, enamal, enamel pot, le creuset enamel cleaning, le creuset enamel, how to clean enamel, enamel stain, fix stained enamel

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Length: 4min 17sec (257 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 17 2017