Cleaning products?

[meleth]

So my roommate and I share her cookware in the apartment. However, I cook a lot more than she does, and I've been a bit hard on her pots and pans. Does anybody know any good homemade sorts of things to get off burnt bits, etc? I was going to try baking soda and vinegar, and possibly put the pans in the oven with vinegar in them to boil that and

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[tonyasjournal]

boiling with baking soda and water works wonders . . . also, depending on what it's made of (ie, if it's nonporous), just filling it with water and boiling with a squirt of dish soap works wonders too.

[aronstale]

Lemons and Salt work fantastically on copper pans and copper bottoms of steel pans. Sprinkle on salt, and use a half a lemon as a scrubbie!

[prncmongstkngs]

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[atropos_too]

Easiest of all, except on cast iron, and won't scratch.

Put a tablespoon of Biological laundry soap or powder in the pan (the sort that has ensymes to digest fat and dirt.

Add hot water, heat to just below boiling point and leave to cool down.

Most of tne burnt of crap will soften completly and lift straight off.

I'm very hard on pans, and this has kept mine sparkling for years.

But don't use it on cast iron!

[lyss]

I dont know if anyone has mentioned this, but if they are copper I have a great solution for re shining the bottom.

Ketchup. Dont laugh. I watched my grandmother do it all growing up. You smear the ketchup on the bottoms and let it sit for a while. My grandmother used to let it sit for an hour. Then you Brillo it off. My pans are old though and much loved, I dont know how you fel about brillo, but this does it for us every time!

Luck!