How do you clean burnt vegetable oil off the inside of a porcelain enamal pan?

Answer 1

There is a can of powder cleaner I buy in the grocery store called "Bar Keepers Helper" that works wonders on this. Use with some sort of scrubbie and you can polish burned oil right off.

To that good answer we add this: Work outside if possible. Use lots of newspaper. Wear eye protection and gloves. Be careful. (The "standard" cautionary offerings.) Oven cleaner will strip paint off of things, but it will not strip enamel off of vessels. The enamel is effectively a ceramic (it has been fired on), and, as such, is impervious to the sodium hydroxide in oven cleaner.

If the frying pans are cast iron, put them over a hot fire on your barbeque grill, leave till the crust that has formed burns off. After they cool, wash, dry thoroughly, then re-season by applying a small amount of cooking oil to the inside of the skillet, and place in a warm (225-250 degree) oven for about thirty minutes.

Here is another option I would like to add that I found worked great, and it is environmentally safe plus no soaps or abrasive steel wool. If you have access to wood ashes straight from the fireplace, they work great to clean almost anything. I was despairing about my heavy aluminum frying pan, but with a paste of ashes and scant water and a nylon scrubbie and a lot of elbow grease, I was smiling at the result!

Answer 2

You can clean burnt oil from a cast iron pot by putting a bit of water in the pan, and placing it on the store. Let the water boil. As it does it should loosen the burnt on oil. Dump the water out and scrub the pan. You can do this two or three more times if everything is not removed the first time.

Answer 3

You can partially fill the pot (ensuring all blackened areas are covered) and then add a very generous amount of salt to the water (since I don't know the size of the pot, it is hard for me to recommend a quantity but you want the water to be very salty). Put it on the stove and bring to a boil and allow the salt water to boil for 5 or 10 minutes then leave the pot to cool. Rinse and wipe clean with a potscrubber and it should look like new.

Answer 4

plenty of hot, hot water and dish soap ... let it soak ... scrub it ... if it doesn't come clean, repeat

Answer 5

You can soak the pot in hot soapy water overnight then try scrubbing the oil off, or use an oven cleaner chemical spray and follow the instructions on the can.