Help with cleaning Jam Pan...??

[northepaul]

Hi all,
firslty sorry I am not sure where to put this, as it relates to my maslin pan but is not a recipe for any preserves.... Please feel free to move it

OK, I had to use my maslin pan to boil a ham as it was too big to fit in my stock pot. Now the pan has this film over the bottom (fat/salt??) which I cant get off, I soaked it all night in water with fairy. Scrubbed it with a scourer and am now soaking it with hot water and fairy and bicarb (thought it might be mildly abrasive without damaging the pan) Its stainless steel by the way.

Dont want to damage the pan by using an industrial cleaner (ie brillo pad) is there anything I can do to save the pan?? it was only new in August and I cant really afford to buy another.
Thanks for your help

[roitelet]

If it is NOT copper try boiling it up with some vinegar or lemon juice in the water. Sounds to me as if what you have is the protein from the meat stuck to the bottom.

[Aberdeenplotter]

try a soak with any washing powder that isn't non-biological. If it is protein or similar the enzymes should loosen it. This even works if you are unfortunate to burn the bottom of a pan . Us men have our uses.

[Glutton4...]

Persil and water mixture. Strong. Boil it up. Should be OK, but you may have to do it more than once. Good luck!

[northepaul]

Thanks all, will try the vinegar and lemon first, and see what happens, (I dont use washing powder) then take it from there

[Two_Sheds]

I always use Bio washing powder to clean burnt pans (not very hot water though, it kills those little enzymes)

[Dottie]

Once you have some rhubarb growing, boil some up in the pan and it will be like new.

[Nicos]

You could use Bar Keepers Friend.
It's wonderful stuff.( I think it is a sort of rhubarb extract in powder form.)

[Mell]

You could use Bar Keepers Friend.
It's wonderful stuff.( I think it is a sort of rhubarb extract in powder form.)

Oxalic acid at a guess.

[Snadger]

Then pour the cold liquid around your brassicas to kill clubroot spores............

[Bren In Pots]

I once burnt a pan so gave it to the kids to use in the sand pit, a couple of weeks later the pan looked as good as new so I pinched it back.

[Mell]

When I'm medieval cookery, most of the pots I used have been painted to blacken them, so I have them shot/sand blasted Also use chicke grit to clean bottles . But perhaps not on stainless !

[northepaul]

I boiled some vinegar in it to no avail, so added some lemon juice and course sea salt and scrubbed it.
Seemed to work to some extend - there is still afew patches.
I thought I would test the pan yesterday and made a small quantity of chestnut jam, everything was fine.

[green thing]

I use wire wool with neat washing up liquid and salt
to clean out the jam pan it works on stainless steel pans

[northepaul]

I didnt want to scratch the pan, thats why I didnt use brillos (which are made of wire wool)
Thanks anyway