How to wash a frying pan from carbon at home?

For sure, every housewife faced such a difficult problem as burnt fat on the surface of a frying pan, whether it's a cast-iron, Teflon, ceramic or aluminum frying pan. Once you decide to clean your frying pan, you are wondering how to wash the frying pan from the soot at home? In this article we will help you in solving this issue.

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What is a deposit?

Before you figure out how to clean a frying pan from a large layer of carbon, you need to find out exactly what it is. The deposit is formed during the use of the frying pan - due to the heating of the fat, and then its settling on the walls of the dishes outside, inside. All these layers of perennial carbon can become an unreal nightmare for a neat, clean hostess, in whom everything should shine and shine with purity.

Surprisingly, household chemicals of modern production can not always cope with burnt fat, and some funds and generally will not be able to help. To cope with the situation and wash the frying pan from the carbon at home, determine the material at the base of the vessel and choose the method that suits you from the ones suggested below.

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How can I clean a cast iron pan from greasy carbon?

The most difficult to do is to clean the old good cast iron pan. But it must be done:

• First, this dish can live in your kitchen for a long time and will be able to perform its duties simply perfectly only if it is clean.
• Secondly, if you look from the outside of the cast iron, you can see that the burned layer of fat is going to gather, which hardens hard enough, and to cope with its removal sometimes seems simply unimaginably difficult.

We will disclose for you the most common methods of our grandmothers from liquidating a burnt layer from the surface of a cast-iron frying pan. After all, this is a high-quality and expensive dish, and it will be much cheaper to clean it out than to buy a new one.

Option 1

Burnt grease can be easily cleaned with high temperatures. Put your frying pan on the fire and evenly try to burn its sides over the burner, which is turned on.

Some experts manage to remove the burnt layer with a gas burner, as well as a blowtorch and even a grinding machine.

Important! These methods of mechanical cleaning can be called effective, but they are best used outdoors or in the garage, and in no case in their own kitchen.

Option 2

To clean the frying pans from the old burning outside at home, you can prepare a special solution:

• Stir in a bucket of water 100 g grated soap, 400 g of soda ash, 100 g of silicate glue.
• Pour the resulting solution into a large digestion or pot and put it on the fire.
• Then place in the solution all the smoked utensils and cast-iron frying pan.
• Boil over low heat for about half an hour, and then turn it off, lightly cool, remove the dishes, rinse it under ordinary running water.

All this scum will remain in solution, and your favorite cast-iron dishes will regain a new life.

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How to clean the aluminum pan?

It's incredibly important to remember that aluminum is a soft metal, so it is not recommended to clean it with abrasive powders, sand, and a metal brush and washcloth.

Therefore, to wash the frying pan from the carbon in the home, if it is made of such an alloy:

1. Soften the stale fat with soda, applying a large layer on the wet surface of the frying pan.
2. In this form, the pan should stand for about 15 minutes with a slight contamination or 1-2 hours for a strong one.
3. After that, gently wipe off some of the fat with a soft rag.
4. Repeat this procedure until the burned fat is completely removed.

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How to clean Teflon frying pan from burnt fat?

If you are in search of how to clean a Teflon frying pan from burnt fat inside, then with certainty it can be said that this non-stick layer has ceased to perform its protective function. In the future, utensils in any case must be replaced. But if you are concerned about small-scale contamination, soak your frying pan in warm water using any dishwashing detergent for several hours, and then wash with a soft sponge.

In order to clean the Teflon pan from the grease deposit from the outside, boil your frying pan for 2 hours in a solution that consists of 200 g dish detergent and 3 liters of water.

Important! If you are a happy owner of a dishwasher, then the matter is simplified to the very minimum - 2-3 cycles, and then the pan as new. But be sure to pay attention to whether there is an icon that allows washing the frying pan in the PMM.

Useful advices for

During the operation of the Teflon griddle, remember the 2 most important rules:

• Do not use metal blades, knives, etc. during cooking;
• Do not expose the pan to a sudden temperature drop.

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How to clean a ceramic frying pan from burnt fat?

If the contamination is small, then it can be eliminated with the help of medical alcohol, which you will apply on cotton wool, and which you will grate the frying pan. If alcohol is not available, use other methods to wash the frying pan from carbon at home.

Option one

Boil your frying pan in a solution with detergent and water or, if you want to clean only the inner surface, pour water into the dishes.

Option two

Purchase and use a melamine sponge. Moisten this sponge in warm water and rub. This is a very laborious task, but the result is worth it, with the same, without absolutely any damage to the ceramic coating. At the time when all the dirt is gone, rinse thoroughly under warm water.

Important! Melamine sponge can wash the frying pan from the deposit in the home only from the outside. Since the basis of such a cleaning device is harmful and unsafe for human health melamine resins, it is impossible to wipe the inside of any utensils under any situation.

Option third

Special gel substances, such as Flat, Comet and others. Soft and gentle cleansing with the help of a gel was already appreciated by a large number of housewives. We cited as an example of inexpensive brands, but you can look for and more expensive.

Option Four

The dishwasher will work. Take a gel detergent, and then set a gentle regimen. Not the fact that the frying pan will be washed away immediately, but if you repeat it several times - it will definitely be clean.

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Popular ways to clean the frying pan

There are also universal folk ways that will help you solve the problem of how to clean the frying pans from an old burning at home.

Household soap

If the burnt fat layer in your frying pan has been eaten to the point that all the tested substances could not help, a common household soap can help you to cope with this problem:

1. Half a household 72% soap, grate on a large grater.
2. Pour the shavings into a frying pan and pour with warm water.
3. Boil the soap solution for half an hour.
4. After that you can turn off the fire and put the dishes aside again for 30 minutes.
5. At the end of the above time, thoroughly wash the frying pan with a hard sponge or washcloth.
6. Then rinse thoroughly, rinse it in clean water.
   

Vinegar, citric acid

Citric acid and table vinegar can help you eliminate old fat from the surface of the pan walls or pots:

1. Pour a small amount of water into the container and then put it on the fire.
2. Wait until this water boils, pour half of the glass of vinegar into it.
3. Add 1 tbsp.l.citric acid.
4. Turn off the fire and let your fatware stand for 45 minutes.
5. The reaction of vinegar together with citric acid destroys even the oldest fat, which with great difficulty you tried to scrape with a knife.

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What should I do if the food starts to stick?

So, how to clean a cast iron frying pan from a thick layer of burning, we have already figured out, but what to do to restore its former non-stick oil coating after such very serious interventions? Or in the event of food sticking to the frying pan? In order that the food does not stick, and also does not burn:

1. Cake the frying pan over a small fire for 20 minutes, pouring salt onto the bottom of this pan.
2. As soon as the poured salt starts to crack, start stirring the salt, touching the bottom with a spoon. Do this about 20 minutes. Then salt should be poured out and wait until the utensils cool down completely.

Important! The salt can later be used to repeat the same procedure, but for food it is no longer suitable.

1. After your frying pan has cooled, rinse it off with salt, then glow again.
2. Once the frying pan has thoroughly heated, take absolutely any vegetable oil, spread this oil on the bottom. Use a silicone spatula or a brush for this.
3. As soon as the oil starts to burn, gently wipe the excess oil with a paper towel, and then pour in the oil again. Next, just wipe it with a napkin, pour a new layer of oil, wait for the excess to begin to burn and wipe again. As a result, you will get a newly shiny surface of the frying pan, which now must be protected without rubbing the bottom with each wash and without using chemicals. From time to time, or if necessary, you can repeat the procedure.

We hope that you have found the answer to the question you are asking, and our advice and recommendations will help you to wash the frying pan from the carbon in your home without any special time or effort.