I LOVE anything that saves me time. I hate spending hours doing tedious things. In fact, I hate it soo much that if it takes hours, I don't do it.
So I needed a fast way to clean the copper bottom to my pans. But for the life of me NOTHING worked. NOTHING. I googled it and tried everything.
Lemon. Nope. Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. Nope. Pumas Stone. Nope. Vinegar. Nope.
So I finally mixed a few things together and WALAA. Clean pans. And fast. We are talking minutes here. Minutes.
Please don't judge me. These pans are 4 years old and well, I never have cleaned the bottoms. Ack.
The first thing that you need to do... That I have done above... is to take baking soda and sprinkle it on the top of the pan. Then lightly get it wet and scrub the best you can. Don't wipe the baking soda off the pan completely. Here is what mine looked like after I scrubbed. As you can see, it's slightly cleaner. It's important not to skip this step because you need the baking soda on the surface for the reaction of the next steps.
Pour salt all over the bottom of the pan. Then pour vinegar over the salt. The reaction of the salt, baking soda, and vinegar is magical. You can see the bottom of the pan already brightening up.
Scrub the bottom of the pan using the salt mixture as a scrub. And look how nice and clean it is!!!
Wash your pan off, and there you have it. Clean pans.
And yes, I'm lame. I don't have a picture... not sure why... and... I'm lame because it's been a week and I haven't crafted at all. This morning sickness is running my life...
But I have A LOT of Christmas ideas coming soon... because they have to be finished this week... So I'll be sharing those soon!!!
Let me know if you give this pan trick a try or if you have a trick of your own you'd like to share! Because I would LOVE to hear!!!
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And here's to me posting soon and not being so lame this week...
2 comments:
I've been using the vinegar/baking soda. I'll have to add the salt. I use it mostly on vintage glasses that are dull and really baked on pans. Thanks for the info.
I dissolve a dishwasher soap packet in water and soak yucky stuff in it. It really breaks down set it stains and "that black stuff" that seems to never want to leave.
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