How to wash a pan from carbon deposits at home?

Surely, every housewife was faced with such a rather complicated problem, as burnt fat on the surface of the pan, whether it’s cast iron, teflonceramic or aluminum pan. As soon as you decide to clean your pan, you are wondering how to wash the pan from soot at home? In this article we will help you in solving this issue.

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What is soot?

Before you figure out how to clean a pan from a large layer of soot, you need to find out what exactly it is. Sludge is formed during the use of the pan - due to heating of the fat, and then its deposition on the walls of the dishes from the outside, inside. All these layers of long-term soot can become an unreal nightmare for a neat, clean hostess, in whom everything should shine and shine with cleanliness.

Oddly enough, household chemicals of modern production can not always cope against burnt fat, and some means will not be able to help at all. To cope with the situation and wash the pan from soot at home, determine the material in the base of the vessel and select the method that suits you best from the ones below.

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How to clean a cast-iron pan from greasy soot?

The hardest thing is to wash the good old cast-iron pan. But you need to do this:

• Firstly, this dishware can live in your kitchen long enough and will be able to perform its duties just fine only if it is clean.
• Secondly, if you look from the outside of the iron, you can notice that a burnt layer of fat is going on, which hardens quite tightly, and sometimes it just seems incredibly difficult to cope with its removal.

We will reveal for you the most common methods of our grandmothers from eliminating a burnt layer from the surface of a cast-iron skillet. After all, this is high-quality and expensive dishes, and it will be much cheaper to clean it than to acquire a new one.

Option 1

Burned fat can be easily cleaned with high temperatures. Put your frying pan on the fire and evenly try to burn its sides above the burner, which is on.

Some experts manage to remove the charred layer with a gas burner, as well as a blowtorch and even a grinding machine.

Important! These methods of mechanical cleaning can be called effective, but they are best used outdoors or in the garage, and in no case in your own kitchen.

Option 2

To clean the pans from the old burning outside exactly at home, you can prepare a special solution:

• Stir in a bucket of water 100 g of grated laundry soap, 400 g soda ash, 100 g of silicate glue.
• Pour the resulting solution into a large boil-out pan or put it on the fire.
• Then place in the solution all smoked dishes and a cast-iron pan.
• Simmer for about half an hour, and then turn it off, cool slightly, remove the dishes, rinse it under ordinary running water.

All this cinder will remain in solution, and your favorite cast-iron dishes will regain a new life.

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How to clean an aluminum pan?

It is incredibly important to remember that aluminum is soft metal, so it is not recommended to clean it with abrasive powders, sand, as well as with a metal brush and washcloth.

Therefore, to wash the pan from soot at home, if it is made of such an alloy:

1. Soften the stubborn fat with soda, applying a large layer of it to the wet surface of the pan.
2. In this form, the pan should stand for about 15 minutes with a little pollution or 1-2 hours with a strong one.
3. After that, gently remove a piece of fat with a soft rag.
4. Repeat this procedure until the burnt fat is completely removed.

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How to clean a teflon pan from burnt fat?

If you are in search of how to clean a teflon pan from burnt fat inside, then with confidence we can say that this non-stick layer has ceased to fulfill its protective function. In the future, the utensils in any case must be replaced. But if you are concerned about pollution of small scales, then soak your pan in warm water using any detergent for dishes for several hours, and then wash with a soft sponge.

In order to clean the Teflon pan from greasy soot from the outside, boil your pan for 2 hours in a solution that consists of 200 g of dishwashing detergent and 3 l of water.

Important! If you are a happy owner of a dishwasher, then the matter is simplified to the very minimum - 2-3 cycles, and then the pan as new. But be sure to pay attention to whether there is an icon that allows washing the pan in the PMM.

Useful Tips

During operation of a Teflon pan, remember the 2 most important rules:

• Do not use metal spatulas, knives, etc. during cooking;
• Do not subject the pan to a sudden drop in temperature.

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How to clean a ceramic pan from burnt fat?

In the event that the pollution is small, then it can be eliminated with the help of medical alcohol, which you put on cotton wool, and with which you wipe the pan. If alcohol is not available, use other methods to wash the pan from soot at home.

Option one

Boil your pan in a solution of detergent and water, or if you want to clean only the inside, pour water into the dishes.

Second option

Purchase and use a melamine sponge. Moisten this sponge in warm water and rub. This is a very time-consuming task, but the result is worth it, at the same time, without absolutely any damage to the ceramic coating. At a time when all the dirt has receded, rinse thoroughly under warm water.

Important! Melamine sponge can wash the pan from soot at home just outside. Since the basis of such a cleaning device is melamine resins that are harmful and unsafe for human health, it is impossible to wipe the inner surface of any dishes with it under any situation.

Third option

Special gel substances such as Flat, Comet and others. Soft and gentle cleansing with a gel has already been appreciated by a large number of housewives. We have given inexpensive brands as an example, but you can search for more expensive ones.

Fourth option

A dishwasher will work. Take the gel detergent, and then set the gentle mode. It is not a fact that the pan will be washed off immediately, but if you repeat it several times, it will definitely be clean.

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Folk methods for cleaning the pan

There are universal folk methods that will help you solve the problem of how to clean pans from an old burning cottage at home.

Laundry soap

If the burnt greasy layer in your pan is eaten to the extent that all the tested substances could no longer help, ordinary laundry soap can help you cope with this problem:

1. Grate half of the 72 percent soap on a coarse grater.
2. Pour the chips into a skillet and pour warm water.
3. Boil a soap solution for half an hour.
4. After that you can turn off the fire and put the dishes aside again for 30 minutes.
5. At the end of the above time, thoroughly wash the pan with a hard sponge or washcloth.
6. Then rinse thoroughly, rinse it in clean water.
   

Vinegar, Citric Acid

Citric acid and table vinegar can help you eliminate old fat from the surface of the walls of the pan or the pan:

1. Pour a small amount of water into a container and then put on fire.
2. Wait until this water boils, pour in half a glass of table vinegar.
3. Pour 1 tbsp. l citric acid.
4. Turn off the heat and let your oily dish stand for 45 minutes.
5. The vinegar reaction along with citric acid destroys even the oldest fat, which with great difficulty you tried to scrape off with a knife.

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What needs to be done if food begins to stick?

So, how to clean a cast-iron pan from a thick layer of burning, we have already figured out, but what to do to restore its former oil-free non-stick coating after such very serious interventions? Or if the food began to stick to the pan? So that the food does not stick, and also does not burn:

1. Anneal the skillet over low heat for 20 minutes, pouring salt into the bottom of the skillet.
2. As soon as the poured salt begins to crack, begin to mix the salt, touching the bottom with a spoon. This should be done approximately 20 minutes. Then the salt must be poured out and wait for the utensils to cool completely.

Important! Salt can later be used to repeat the same procedure, but it is already unsuitable for food.

3. After your pan has cooled, rinse it with salt, then heat again.
4. As soon as the pan is thoroughly heated, take absolutely any vegetable oil, spread the bottom with this oil. Use a silicone spatula or a brush for this.
5. As soon as the pouring oil starts to burn, carefully wipe off the excess oil with a paper towel, and then pour the oil again. Then also wipe it with a cloth, pour a new layer of oil, wait until the excess starts to burn and wipe again. As a result, you will get again the shiny surface of the pan, which now needs to be protected without rubbing its bottom with each wash and without using chemicals. From time to time, or if necessary, you can repeat the procedure.

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We hope that you have found the answer to the question you are asking, and our tips and tricks will help you wash the pan from carbon deposits at home without much time and effort.