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Cool video, but I have a much easier option that does not require any manual work, but it is slightly more dangerous. Put some hot water in the pan, add some caustic soda and leave for half a hour, better still, do the above, but put on a low heat on the cooker to keep the water hot. Caustic soda will work with cold water, but hot it better. If anyone tries this, just be careful putting in the caustic as it reacts with hot water and can splash up if you pour a lot in straight away. Always a good idea to wear protective googles just incase it does splash. If it gets on your skin, just rinse with cold water. The tip is not to add a lot of caustic in one go.

Meh didn’t come off . With 5 try

I just discovered a realy neat trick, I had three roasting pans from the forties that were just as bad as yours. I sprayed oven cleaner on them, let them sit for ten minutes, rinsed them off and wiped them with a sponge and soap. After a final rinse they were like brand new.

Ha! Love your sense of humor and appreciated this video!

Like dissolves like. Baking soda dissolves in water and forms carbon dioxide. CO2 can then react with water to from carbonic acid which is then available to attack the baked on gunk (organic residue) from cooking. Heating increases the rate of reaction.

You add bicarb to a clean pot and clean the clean pot for us instead of the burnt pot. Got it.

Thank you!

how about the bottom

Yep. My wife loves these pots and burns them a lot so I do the clean... i boil dish detergent for a few minutes and it all comes off. Btw, I hate them because they're heavy and I do most of the cooking...

I use dishwasher powder or tablet and boil it. Works really good with little to no scrubbing

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Oxyclean in a strong solution made with hot water, left overnight in the pan works wonders for me and no damage to the pan, and absolutely no brushing or scrubbing. Caution though. Place your pan inside a plastic or enamelled dish washing bowl as the oxyclean (or other oxygen type bleaching powder), can react with stainless steel and darken it. You don't want a second problem to solve!

I destroyed my creuset by cooking an acidic meal with vinegar. The enamel inside got very coarse since than. Everything sticks now when cooking. Shit happens...

Boil dry powdered dishwasher soap...I keep a box for this purpose.

My dad keeps burning food in my Dutch oven.

I just clean it soon as possible after using it, and once or twice a year just clean it with the official le creuset cleaning cream. It’s slightly abrasive but not enough to ruin the finish, and it comes up brand new every time. I use my pot to braise beef, make bolognese, etc etc

What about the pink stuff?

I literally had to google "red clay hot sauce is terrible" to figure out if I was crazy or if it truly is a garbage product. Glad to see I'm not alone. :)

Baking Soda works because it is the opposite of acidic. It's pH is 9 so it's basic, not acidic.

Thanks for the upload - well done! The trick Le Creuset recommended with the baking soda+boiling water can be rectified before you remove the pot/pan from the burner by simply adding water and some dish detergent or baking soda without removing the burned contents and letting it simmer for about 8-10 minutes. No special tools needed.

put a dishwasher tab in with some very warm water. No need to scrub or use baking soda or whatever.

Oven cleaner and five minutes.

You never loved your pans pal.

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Will this process remove the baked on stains in my underwear?

easy off

You're removing the flavors. There's a reason why Asians never scrub their wok!

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No scouring at all needed! Add water into your pot any burnt pot -- and 1 or 2 teaspoon washing poder containing bleach (sodium perborate). Bring to boil. After 5 min your pot will be okay.

When you add baking soda (sodium hydrogen carbonate) to boiling water, a chemical reaction causes it to give off CO2 and water, leaving sodium carbonate (washing soda) which is a stronger alkali and good at dissolving fat. The bubbles you saw after adding the baking soda are the reason it's used in baking since the formation of tiny bubbles of CO2 are what makes pancakes etc. rise.

Oven cleaner would easily nail this Also steel is much softer than ceramics to steel can't damage this

Useful vid man. Subbed.

I did mine with wood ash also worked very well I think

Instead of acid from the coke, use those foam to clean oven made from sodium hydoxyde. It's a strong base and let it sit a while, it will soften the carbon buildup. Baking soda is a slight base, but sodium hydoxide is a lot stronger. Its used also in drain cleaner stuff.

You might not even need the bicarb for the boiling. In my experience just heating the water to a boil fora minute is enough to lift almost all burned food off. It’s the same process as when you deglaze a pan to make gravy.

The newest version of Le Creuset's own cleaning/polishing liquid is the single best way to do this. I am not advertising. I have an extensive collection that I've had for 20+ years and just picked up their newest cleaner. It is hands down better than the last version of their cleaner they sold, and I'm loving it: it brings a pots shine back like new, as it is a dual action product. I'd pass on the all the hacks and just use their brush, a flat tipped wooden spatula for nightmarish glued on stuff that needs scraping, and their cleaner/polisher.

What do you think about a cap full of bleach in a full pot of water for a few hours. I have 40 year old Le Creuset pots and that's my method when they look a little stained and it's worked great.

You could have done without the use of the word "hell". It's juvenile and vulgar. And utterly necessary.

Are you talking and woman is doing the work?

Yo, i do the boiling without any baking soda, with ANY kinda pan that has build up. Usually I'll just boil water in the pot for 5 minutes, possibly drop the lid on to allow things to steam, then it'll be ready for a brush & soap. Easy peasy. And for what its worth, not a chemist, but a well researched home cook: The carbon is "baked on," boiling water ultimately just dissolves that bond using heat and water. I think of it like soaking a loaf of bread in a bucket of hot water. It'll turn to mush eventually, no matter how dry or burnt the loaf is.

it is far far quicker to just put oxyclean as high up as the dirt then put warm water and leave it alone overnight then rinse. Its magic

I use barkeepers friend for pot and glass stovetop cleaning....mild abrasive.

Why is my Le Cruecet Dutch oven pitting

Baking soda works by changing the composition of the brown. The brown then does not bond to the surface any longer and can be lifted off. A baking soda paste spread on your brown stained stove will also remove the brown that will not come off. Just make a very wet paste, smear it on the stainless of your stovetop and let it sit for an hour or more.

you can actually scrub it with the coarse side of a sponge, then to "re-season" the enamel I just put it on the stove with a little bit of avocado oil, wipe it around, on high heat, once the oil is just about to smoke take it off the heat and continue wiping a bit and let it cool. eggs slide right off it, works every time

Gonna try this over the weekend.

To the point and great sense of humor. Thanks!!

If the surface is clean but dull, I spray the enamel with a dilute bleach solution. Whitens it right up.

I have never had to clean mine cause I don't own one

THANK YOU! I am off now to try this with my pan!