I’m doing a whole mess of dishes while my kid is asleep and i just finished washing pots and pans. I scrub the heck out of them but there’s always some black and brown coloration on the bottom of it. am I using too much heat so there’s something happening to the metal? if it’s not happening to the metal itself what is it and why does it seem like it refuses every effort I make to clean it?
edit: since it seems i wasn’t clear enough initially, but bottom of the pan i did indeed mean the underside that is in contact with the burner, not the interior bottom of the pan!
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I can tell you from experience the most simplest answer here. It’s food or most probably oil that ends up down there, then you continue cooking and with the high heat, it turns to carbon as such.
Usually when you pour some food off the pans or pots – especially the pans – onto a plate or something, a bit of oil trickles down the side and ends up down there.
What I usually do is keep a wet towel close by and just wipe the side and bottom side just after I pour something off of the pan. That helps get rid of the oil and prolongs the life of the pan’s underpart.
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