To me, time is like money. If I spend more time than I should on a task ~ well it makes me irritable. I hope you find some of these tips helpful!
The other day my husband cooked scrambled eggs for my children. Some how (don’t ask me) the spoon he used (again- why this one?) got lost in the kitchen. I found it yesterday in the cabinet (sigh).
It was SO dried on nothing I tried worked. I tried soaking it, scrubbing it and was about to give up. Then I remembered a trick that has worked on some pans that had stuck on food: boil it.
I put some water in a medium sized pan and started it to boil.
Remember: If you have a metal spoon like I do it will get HOT. I let it boil about 10 minutes and it got VERY hot so I used an oven mit to remove it.
I used a nylon scrubber. Took me about 45 seconds. I kept the spoon over the steam to help loosen up the dried on eggs.
Voila! A clean spoon!
This same technique works on stuck on food in pans! Water is a great cleaning agent! Simply add water to cover the bottom of the pan with the stuck on food- boil until it begins to loosen.
Thank you for this tip I will be trying this for sure! Something that I have seen my mother-in-law do is that she immediately puts water in the pan after she pulls out the food. Then when she goes back to clean it, the food has had a chance to loosen.