Kitchen cleaning : Pots and pans : Page 2

Cool-it!
Non-stick pan grease messes are easily cleaned up and put in the garbage when you let it cool down and harden after you are finished cooking. After the grease is hard you can simply wipe it out with a paper towel and throw the grease in the garbage instead of down your sink. To cut through any remaining grease you can clean out the pan with full strength vinegar.

Scrape it away
Using a knife and your dishrag, you can scrape out corners of your cookie sheets for an easy clean without using chemicals.

Salt, vinegar & baking soda paste
For your iron or metal pans, you can make a paste of two tablespoons of baking soda, a cup of salt and about a half cup of vinegar. This will be a grainy paste that you can use to get stains and stuck on grease out of metal pans. Do not use this paste on your non-stick pan finishes.

Rust stains
If you have pots and pans with stubborn rust stains, soaking them in full strength vinegar for about an hour will neutralize the rusting, then continue washing your pan with hot soapy water and drying for a shiny clean.

You can stop rust in it’s tracks on pans or in your tin containers by taking a half a potato, sprinkle some salt on the area and rub the rust spot with the potato. The rust just disappears.

Non-stick pancake pans
Is your non-stick pancake pan looking a little rough around the edges? You can beat this staining by soaking the pan in salt water for about an hour and then washing with hot soapy water. The heat that stains the edges of the pan is really just baked on grease!

Hard water stains
You can remove those ugly hard water stains from your pans with boiling water (high enough to cover the stains) and add a cup of white vinegar to the water to cut through the hard water stains.