How does baking soda AND vinegar clean pans?

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Hi,

I burnt some food onto my stainless steel pan! In searching for a method to get it out on youtube, I came across videos suggesting boiling water mixed with vinegar or baking soda, or both.

Now, I get it that either the acid from vinegar or the base from soda can aid in cleaning the pan, but I fail to see how adding vinegar AND baking soda at the same time would work. Wouldn’t they just neutralise each other and you end up with …. water? I feel like together they would work less efficiently than either one of them alone, since in essence it’s equivalent to adding whatever amount of either one that is in surplus.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

They both work as cleaning products when separate. You are 100% correct, mixing them destroys their cleaning ability.

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