Hi Can anyone tell me how to clean blackened stainless steel pans , the pan is clean but the steel has gone black in areas , inside and out. (presume her indoors let it boil dry!) Is it possible to make it shine again ? Thanks for reading Steve
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Boil up some rhubarb in it.
Scouring pad and baking soda may be worth a try.
I'd use a stainless scourer after a long soak. If it's really bad, a wire brush on a drill will nicely polish stainless. Stainless is extremely hard!
IME it slowly gets better on it's own.
Derek
A copper scourer is the thing of choice for most types of muck on SS Better not to use a steel one, that would scratch the SS and ruin any chance of shine.
NT
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Barkeeper's Friend is fantastic for cleaning anything made of stainless steel.
Cheers!
Martin
Now that's my kind of DIY ;)
Many, many years ago, I left a pan on a very low gas burner. IIRC I found it on return from work (i.e. something like 24hrs after turning it on). It contained a piece of porous charcoal. Which was quite impressive as it had started out full of soup.
Anyway, all I did was clean it with normal things (maybe Cif or similar and washing up liquid) - and use it. A decade later it was still in use and quite decent looking.
Barkeeper's Friend, which is oxalic acid as a white powder. Same stuff as rhubarb, but easier to work with. If you are using rhubarb though, leaves are better than stems and remember that it's quite toxic stuff.
Otherwise scrubbing with such things as a Garryflex block (abrasive grit in rubber). Then for kitchen use, passivate again afterwards to avoid future staining. Use 15% citric acid solution (homebrew shop).
Depending on what the black is, you might have some success with boiling a really concentrated solution of dishwasher powder in it. You might find you need something else, but if you already have dishwasher powder, it's minimal effor to try this (it has worked for me, though not on every type of blackening). Harder to do on the outside, though.
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