How Do You Clean Burnt Aluminum Pans?
Aluminum is sometimes a real mess to clean up. It stains easily and it’s really hard to get it clean when foods stick or burn badly. You can’t use just any cleaner because the pans can get pitted and marred by using the wrong cleaners. Here are some tips for cleaning burnt aluminum pans the right way. Try the easiest thing first. Heat up tomatoes in the burned pan. Use tomato sauce, stewed tomatoes or tomato juice. Food will be loosened in no time by the acid in the tomatoes. Try this trick: Fill the pan half full with water and add dishwashing liquid. Bring it to a rolling boil and keep it boiling for 10 to 15 minutes. You can boil as long as you’d like – but if the food doesn’t come off in an hour, this isn’t going to help. Fill your pot with water again and add 1/4 cup of baking soda and 2/3 cup of vinegar. Boil hard and turn it down to a simmer for about half an hour. Don’t leave this in the pan more than an hour or it could pit the surface. When you’ve done this, let it cool a bit
