How to clean the food burnt stainless steel pot or pan

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Couple weeks ago my roommate cooked burgers with the stainless steel pot. Since he was so focus on the tv instead of cooking, he burned the stainless steel pot, very similar to the photo on the right hand side. He tried so hard to clean out the stains by using soap, water and mesh dish cloth. Only small amount of the stains came off the pot. I was mad about the burning pot. This is the only cooking pot we have in the apartment, and I used the pot almost every day. I was thinking to throw the pot away, it's kind of waste as I remember stainless cookware is very durable. I remember baking soda can clean out most of the stains. Then I did a bit research on baking soda. It's amazing tools and must have in your household. I will talk the baking soda later.

To sum up what I found on the website and my experience. I am going to show you:


How to clean the food burnt stainless steel pot or pan 

You need 
Water
Baking Soda
Vinger (white vinger that you can buy from supermarket)
Dish cloth with mesh

Instruction
1. Pour vinger into the pot / pan. Make vinger is good enough cover the burnt area.
2. Add water into the pot / pan (about equal amount of the vinger in step 1).
3. Turn on your stove and boil the liquid (mix of vinger and water).
4. When the liquid in boil, pour half cup of baking soda into the pot / pan. You will see the bubble come out because of the reaction of baking soda and vinger.
5. Boil it for another 5 - 10 mins, and sit for 30mins.
6. Pour off the liquid.
7. Spread the baking soda evenly on the pot / pan, scrub the pot / pan with mesh dish cloth. Most of the stains should able to come off easily.
8. Rinse the pot with water and soap, and now your pot / pan looks new and ready to go again.

If you still see the stains, repeat the steps 1 - 7.

The cost of cleaning the food burnt stainless steel pot or pan is very cheap. A 1kg of baking soda only cost me $1.5. A 500ml of vinger cost $1.5. Total cost is less than $3 because I still have more than half box of baking soda and half bottle of vinger.

This is my cleaning pot.

Photo taken by Keiyan Ng

Source: theKitchn