How to Restore Stainless Steel Cookware by Removing Burnt-in Oil

Once your stainless steel pan gets burnt with cooking oil, it will continue to make the food cooked in it taste burnt and your home smell like burnt food. Prevent this by never leaving oil in cookware unattended on your stove, which can burn the pan and cause kitchen fires. Remove the burn marks from your stainless steel cookware as soon as you find them.

White vinegar
Superfine steel wool
Nonabrasive scrubbing pad

Instructions

- 1
  Pour 1 cup of white vinegar into the cookware after the pan has cooled.
- 2
  Add water to the cookware until the burnt area is covered.
- 3
  Put the cookware on high heat until the white vinegar solution boils. Let it boil for 5 minutes.
- 4
  Pour the white vinegar solution down the drain. Let the cookware cool enough that it will not burn you. Scrub the pan carefully with superfine steel wool.
- 5
  Repeat the process until the burnt cooking oil stain is gone. Rinse the cookware with water, and dry it completely.

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