Kitchen cleaning : Pots and pans : Page 1

Cleaning and souring solutions
One of the best and most inexpensive cleaning and souring solutions you can make yourself will be with salt. Use salt and water, salt and vinegar, salt and lemon juice or salt and mayonnaise. These solutions will clean most stains off of plates, metal pans and even from your cooking utensils! Try them out and find which one works best for you.

Looking new again
Making a paste of baking soda and vinegar in a bowl, you can scrub the outsides of your pots and pans to leave them looking new again!

If your pots and pans or even your plastic containers suffer with smells from cooking placing some baking soda in the bottom and leaving them sit overnight will remove any lingering odors.

Baked on
For crusty pans that are over baked on, you can boil a half and half mixture of water and vinegar for a fast clean. Just be careful when pouring the hot water back out. Pouring the water and vinegar mixture down the drain will also cut through grease and odors in your drains.

Another method for crusty pans that are really over baked is as follows. You can boil water (enough to cover up to the baked on mess) with two tablespoons of baking soda to loosen the yucky mess for an easy wipe clean.

You can use straight vinegar to cut baked on grease in your pans by adding a few tablespoons of vinegar to your washcloth as you are wiping the pans out. The grease will just seem to melt away!