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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Oxidation (aka rusting) happens more quickly at high temperatures. It could be that the metal has oxidized slightly, or undergone other chemical reactions that caused it to turn a color.
More likely, the bottom of the pan was not completely clean when it was used. Whatever trace of stuff was on the bottom of the pan got burnt on to the bottom of the pan, and it’s not coming off.
If you have a gas stove, it could be residue left by the flame itself. This could be some combination of the other two causes above.
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