The EASIEST way to Clean Filthy Pan bottoms (when you don’t like scrubbing)

this is a pan and as you can see it is clearly a very old and very well used pan and today i'm going to show you how to clean this very dark greasy yucky gunk that is on the bottom of my pan but first if you're new to clean freaking germaphobe we love to clean organize disinfect and test things and so if you are new here make sure you hit subscribe make sure you hit the notification bell so you won't miss any future videos for those of you who don't know when i'm not making youtube videos about cleaning and when i'm not being mom i am also a physician assistant i'm to tell you something that i learned as a pa that will cut the cleaning time for this pan in half and you are going to be amazed now i know what you're thinking you're thinking now diana what does medicine have to do with cleaning a pan and that is a very good question and i'm going to tell you right now in medicine when we are dealing with a skin condition and we prescribe a topical ointment or cream of some kind to apply to the skin sometimes we recommend that they apply something called an occlusive dressing occlusive dressing just means something that is waterproof and non-breathable so you apply your cream you put an occlusive dressing on top of it and it's going to make that cream work better because it's not getting wiped off it's not getting absorbed it's just sitting right there on the skin doing the job that it's supposed to be doing now when it comes to cleaning this pan we are going to do that same type of thing we're going to use quote unquote an occlusive dressing and the occlusive dressing that we're going to use today is plastic wrap let me show you how it's done so here to demonstrate this i have two more well used pans to clean it we are going to use easy off i always prefer the fume free option if you have it and i'm going to spray one pan this smaller one right here with easy off i'm gonna spray it really heavily because i like to have it fully coated and then i'm just gonna leave it here i have the second pan equally as dirty but we're gonna spray it heavily with easy up again we're not gonna miss anything and we're gonna make sure it's well coated and then here's the trick we're gonna cover this second pan with plastic wrap we're gonna make sure that every area that i want to be cleaned is covered with the plastic wrap and then we're gonna let this sit either overnight or eight hours and then we'll come back and i'm gonna show you the difference it's been eight hours and now we're gonna take a look at what we have here now if you look at the smaller pan that wasn't covered check it out the easy off has already dried and here's something that you need to know once it's dried it's not really doing its job anymore so even though that pan was sitting for eight hours that easy off was only working really well during the time when it was still wet whereas with pan number two when we peel back the plastic wrap look the easy off is still wet which means it is still doing its job even now now we're finally at the good part and this is the part where you get to see how easily this pan will clean up because it had the plastic wrap on it so we will cue the music and you can sit back and enjoy this incredibly satisfying clip of this pan getting cleaned as you can see here the pan where i just use easy off without the plastic wrap still comes clean it just takes a lot more scrubbing now while i was cleaning i chose to use steel wool as my scrubber on the bottom of the pan and it definitely made the cleaning job easier on the sides of my pan i used a regular sponge to clean as much off as i could and as you can see here quite a bit did come off just with a sponge for the tougher spots that wouldn't come off with the sponge i did go ahead and use the steel wool now keep in mind still wool is very abrasive and can scratch so before using steel wool on the sides of your pan i recommend that you test it in an inconspicuous area to make sure that it won't scratch now even if it does scratch you might choose to use it anyways because some of you might feel like that the barely visible light scratches look a ton better than the dark burnt on messes that is entirely up to you but just be aware it can't scratch it's what i'm choosing to use for my pants you choose what you want to use for your pants once you're done scrubbing go ahead and rinse everything off and then i like to wash it one more time with dish soap here i'm using dawn platinum power wash which i think is superior to regular dawn but you use whatever you have on hand [Music] and now for the final reveal look how amazing this pan looks i'm going to show you before picture so you can remember how awful it was before and now look at how amazing it looks now i did not do a lot of scrubbing as you saw in the video and i am so pleased with how well this looks so now you can see how much better your easy off will work if you cover it with plastic wrap before you let it sit just as a side note though if you have a prescription cream that you're now thinking you want to put an occlusive dressing over don't do it without the advice of your own pa or doctor if you liked this video give it a thumbs up and hey if you know somebody who has dirty pants which dirty pan bottoms which is basically going to be anybody who cooks share this video with them if you like this method let me know in the comment section below and if you have other amazing tricks or hacks to clean your pen put that in the comment section below you guys always have tons of great ideas for us and also for our other viewers make sure you hit subscribe if you are new to clean freaking germaphobe give this video a thumbs up and hit the notification bell so you'll be notified of our future videos up next i'm going to put the link to our video on how i cleaned the greasiest dirtiest oven top i have ever seen this oven top had 10 years of build up pork chop grease on it and i cleaned it with just one ingredient and yes my plastic wrap as well but i'm gonna put that right here click on that video and i will see you over there [Music]

Channel: Clean Freak & Germaphobe

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Id: 6nPYZ2VlOQs

Length: 5min 50sec (350 seconds)

Published: Sun May 23 2021