How to clean a cauldron 🥝 cleaning inside and out

In a hurry to return home from outdoor recreation, we sometimes forget about such an important trifle as dirty dishes in which food was prepared. And it’s rather unpleasant to realize upon arrival home that the cauldron is dirty, because in nature it would be much easier to wash, but what has been done is done. The main thing you should know is how to clean a cauldron at home. And then in any situation, the problem will not bother you. And for this you need to read this article.

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How to conduct the process of cleaning cast iron cauldron from burning?

Cast iron cauldron is characterized by the importance of preparation for use. It is specially smoked to form a non-stick layer. When this layer is damaged, it is extremely necessary to restore it, because everything will start to burn.

To surface regained its non-stick properties, use the following tips:

1. Take 0.5 tsp. raw protein mix it with 1 tsp. vegetable oil.
2. With the prepared mixture, grease the cauldron from the inside, put on a large fire in the oven for about 30 minutes.

Important! This method is the easiest, but be prepared for a huge amount of smoke. Immediately use the hood and, if possible, open the windows in order to ventilate in different rooms, as well as in the kitchen - this will contribute to the formation of a draft, and, accordingly, a much better draft.

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How and how to clean a cauldron from cast iron?

Next, you can find out how to clean a cauldron from cast iron without damaging its inner non-stick layer. There are several effective methods.

For them you will need:

• water;
• clerical glue;
• calcined salt;
• laundry soap;
• soda ash;
• dishwashing liquid;
• tablet for dishwasher;
• oil for calcination;
• whitening powder;
• liquid glass;
• metal or just a hard brush.

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How to clean the cauldron from soot and fat?

Before you take decisive action, you will begin to carefully scrape the surface, it is better to familiarize yourself with the following methods to quickly remove a similar problem. Choose the one that seems most suitable to you.

Option one

This method will tell you how best to clean the cauldron from carbon deposits on the inner wall with the least expenditure of time and effort.

You will need:

• bucket with water;
• tube of silicate or clerical glue;
• 250 g of soda ash.

The sequence of application of this method is as follows:

1. Take an almost full bucket of water, add glue and soda ash to it, and then mix thoroughly.
2. Pour the mixture you prepared inside the cauldron to the brim.
3. Put the whole thing on fire and simmer for 1 hour.
4. Let it cool.
5. Rinse thoroughly with detergent.
6. After all the procedures, simply rinse under running water.

Second option

Salt and soda will help to clean the inner wall of a cast-iron cauldron. For this:

1. Pour the required amount of water inside the cauldron.
2. Pour 200 g of soda and salt there.
3. Put on fire and simmer for 2 hours.
4. After passing the specified time, remove from heat and let cool.
5. Wash with dishwashing detergent.
6. Rinse under running water.
7. Dry thoroughly.
8. Anneal the cauldron with oil.

Important! In this situation, you can quite easily replace soda and salt with tablets for the dishwasher. But in this case, the solution should boil for about half an hour.

Third option

Another cleaning method that suits the most lazy:

1. Collect so much river sand in the cauldron so that there is no free space in it.
2. Put a cauldron filled with river sand on a small fire and leave it on it all night.
3. Remove all sand in the morning.
4. Use a detergent to wash the cauldron.

Important! The room in which you are going to process the dishes must be thoroughly ventilated.

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How to clean the aluminum cauldron from the inside of soot?

The main difference between washing this type of utensil is that all aluminum dishes, including cauldrons, must not be calcined. From this he will come into a state of complete unsuitability. But it is possible to process the inner surface with an abrasive metal brush, which greatly simplifies the cleaning process. But thanks to the methods below, you will rarely use such tools.

First way

This method of cleaning a cauldron of aluminum is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. It will also help to process several types of aluminum utensils at once.

It consists in the following actions:

1. Take a large container into which you must first pour water. Add 500 g of soda to it, rub 1 bar of ordinary laundry soap, add 2 tubes of stationery or silicate glue.
2. After you have mixed everything, put the container with the solution on the fire, put in it the dishes that you want to clean.
3. Boil for 30 minutes.
4. After this time, take out the dishes, give it time to cool, and then rinse with detergent and rinse under running water.

Important! If the container you have taken with the filled solution does not immediately contain all the dishes, you can process it in turn. At the end of the procedure, immediately pour out the solution, because when it hardens, eliminating it will be quite problematic.

Second way

Another fairly good way that contributes to the easy cleaning of the cauldron from internal and external soot is soaking the dishes:

1. Fill a bathtub or any other large container with hot water.
2. Pour in it a cleaning powder, 2 tbsp. l bleach powder, then mix thoroughly.
3. You need to put the amount of dishes in the bathroom and leave it there for one night.
4. In the morning, rinse off the dirt with detergent and rinse under running water.

Third way

If the pollution of the cauldron is very neglected and does not want to give up at all, then try several means and steps at once. Be patient and get down to business:

1. Pour the inner surface of the cauldron completely with salt and add the required amount of water so that the salt forms a kind of gruel.
2. Let it brew for 12 hours.
3. After the specified time, rub the dirt with a stiff brush.
4. Take a deep container.
5. Prepare a solution that consists of 3 liters of water, 100 g of water glass, 50 g of laundry soap.
6. Pour the prepared solution into the basin and put the dishes in it.
7. Put on fire and simmer for 1 hour.
8. Remove the pelvis from the heat and let it cool.
9. Rinse with dishwashing detergent.
10. Rinse under warm water.

If necessary, rub with a brush while using detergent.

The fourth way

In that case, when you have exclusively burned the bottom, there is no need to strain over the entire inner surface. It will be enough to process only the affected areas:

1. Take coarse salt and spread it over the surface of the burnt bottom.
2. Leave the cauldron in this condition for 2-3 hours.
3. After that, using a stiff brush, rub the bottom surface.
4. Then rinse with warm water.

Fifth way

When you do not have burnt but frozen fat on your inner surface of the cauldron, and you don’t have a decent detergent at hand, the most ordinary 72% laundry soap will help you. In order to properly use this tool and clean the cauldron at home, read the instructions below:

1. Take the most ordinary bar of soap.
2. Rub it into a cauldron on a fine grater.
3. Then pour boiling water.
4. Put the cauldron on a slow fire and simmer for half an hour.
5. Remove from heat, cool, rub with a sponge.

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Now you not only know how to clean a cauldron at home, but you also have several means and methods for this. Choose the one that seems more convenient to you, and the effect in the form of perfectly clean dishes will not keep you waiting.