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All products featured on SELF are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.for dinner and your food got charred—so much so that, hours later, you’re still googling how to clean a burnt pan caked with stuck-on food.
You’re looking this up because your initial plan—soap + water + scrubbing to the point where you’re literally sweating—hasn’t worked at all. Your arms feel like you just did a, but the food bits haven’t budged. You’re pretty sure the pan is just destined for the trash. But maybe, just maybe, food experts may have some kind of trick up their sleeves that can help.
Indeed, you do have some options—and they don’t include searching for a replacement pan. Even if you’ve burned the hell out of your food to the point that it’s fully fused onto the cooking surface, it’s probably possible to get the pan clean. Here, , a professional recipe developer based in Dallas who’s cleaned plenty of burnt pans, tells SELF exactly what you need to do.That whole “nonstick” tag is probably making you LOL right now. It’s definitely possible for food to get glued onto a nonstick pan if you’re cooking at high heat and the food burns. And going to town on the scrubbing actually isn’t the best idea anyway, since it can damage the pan’s delicate nonstick coating.1. Fill the pan with very hot water.
The hottest you can get from the tap is fine; it doesn’t have to be boiling, Castellano says. It’ll probably be too hot to comfortably touch, but that’s okay because you’re going to…The key to success is all in the rest period. “The stuck-on food will absorb some of the water, which will start to loosen it up,” Castellano says. So chill out during and avoid the urge to bring on the elbow grease.
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