"blued" stainless steel pan

[Broadback]

My wife, quite unlike her, put a saucepan on the heat with no contents. while is is clean it has spoilt the finish, from brownish to blue, inside and out. Is there any remedy please?

[Tricky Dicky]

The brown to blue colours are merely oxides formed on the surface, fine wire wool should remove them.

Richard

[Dave Liquorice]

Or a good old fashiioned scouring powder like Vim or Bar Keepers Friend.

[David]

Do you need to do anything?

If it still cooks and doesn't poison you by leaching out metals then why does it matter if it is blued?

Steel woks get blued, then have oil burnt on them, as a matter of course when they are being "run in".

Cheers

Dave R

[ARW]

Has she said "That's your fault" or will she say that later in the month:-)?

[fred]

In article , ARW writes

What I'm slightly concerned about is the acceptance of 'brownish' as being the normal colour for stainless :-)

[Jonno]

fred scribbled

You accept blackish as the normal colour for non-stick pans.

[Huge]

Except for the white one we have ... :o)

[Windmill]

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