Oops - clean charcoal off

[meow2222]

Or more precisely, charporridge. Its welded firmly to the ceramic container. What's the easiest way to clean it off?

thanks, NT

[Chris J Dixon]

I'd start with a long soak. Let time do the work.

Chris

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 23 October 2013 08:57 [e-mail] wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Angle grinder

[Bob Minchin]

1 Soak with bio washing power/liquid

2 Make note to self to cook porridge in the microwave in future

[chris French]

In message , [e-mail] writes

I usually give a good long soak with some dissolved dishwasher powder first. But friends of ours recently had success with a soak with a bicarb solution.

[meow2222]

Its currently getting a soak in bleach, after a small test showed it working well. I'll add some washing powder too. It was cooked in the microwave :/

I'll admit I'm tempted by the angle grinder option...

NT

[Bob Minchin]

Surprised you had a problem in a microwave unless the timer was set too long. My brew is 2 egg cups of oats, 5 of milk and uWave for 5 mins in a bowl that could take double the quantity. Open the door immediately that it is done to avoid steaming up the oven.

[Roger Mills]

Nah, that's a bit drastic - but you could try a pressure washer (used outside, of course!)

[ARW]

Tell the OH that it needs cleaning.

[meow2222]

It got 15 minutes on full - full being 1kW of nukage. Its cleaning up nicely, but gradually.

NT

[stuart noble]

7 minutes is about right for a cup of oats

[John Rumm]

Was this breakfast or an experiment in home fusion? ;-)

[The Medway Handyman]

Bleach ain't gonna do a lot.

Bung in a dishwasher tablet.

[The Medway Handyman]

3 Don't eat porridge. Tastes like a mixture of sawdust & wallpaper paste. Have a bacon sarnie instead.

[polygonum]

The one time I made a real mistake of that nature (not simply burning a bit on the bottom), it was soup. Well it started as soup. Left over a low gas burner for a whole day while I was out.

When I came back, there was only a lump of loose charcoal - look more like coke. Pan seemed quite clean, considering. Used it regularly for many years afterwards.

[stuart noble]

Not when you've added the honey and Greek yoghourt

[Chris J Dixon]

Are we heading towards something like the stone soup recipe here?

Chris

[fred]

No no. Brown sugar, milk, a dash of cream and a nip of Drambuie. Had this for breakfast last Sunday and it was delicious.

[stuart noble]

I'll try that on Weetabix

[damduck-egg]

For me it was reheating some macorini cheese under a low grill before going on a pub crawl Easter 1975. At least it was Easter when it went under some mates called around early for a planned long distance pub crawl and i forgot the grill ,the pub crawl got out of hand and we ended up in Switzerland. It was about 8 days later I returned home and the macaroni looked just like those charcoal sticks that were seen in the art class at school. Got the dish reasonably clean in a caustic bath at work but some black scale never came off.

G.Harman