Monday, March 3, 2008

以毒攻毒, and remove food with food. The web such a nice tool to find what you're looking for.

Have you ever come across those hard-to-remove stain when you cook rice in a saucepan and it burns? Leaving all those hard patches of black carbon that seems impossible to remove...

It begins with me wanting to eat some onion dish with rice and what I've found on the web is onion rice (there's really such a dish). Its simple to prepare, however I burnt the inside of the pan while its simmering. I thought soaking the pan immediately in water would do the trick but only the onions came off.

Finally, I found the solution on Yahoo Answers. The trick is:

1. Pour Coke enough to cover the soot. Then bring it to boil while swirling.
2. Scrub with a steel pad or scrape away with a metal spoon. I use the latter.
3. If there's still stains, apply table salt freely and scrub again. It should come off beautifully.

Though there's commercial stain remover in the market as an alternative but I still prefer using "functional food" to do it since they can be consume.

Axel blogged at 6:25 PM