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Is your favorite pan covered in stubborn grease, burnt food, or old stains? In this video, you'll learn a quick, easy, and affordable method to restore your pan using simple household ingredients. No expensive cleaning products are needed—just an effective technique that helps loosen tough grime and leave your cookware looking much cleaner.
In this video, you'll discover:
How to remove old grease buildup
A simple method for tackling stubborn burnt stains
Common cleaning mistakes to avoid
Tips to help keep your pans cleaner for longer
Whether you're cleaning a frying pan, skillet, or stainless steel cookware, this easy method can save you time and effort.
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Is your favorite pan covered in stubborn grease, burnt food, or old stains? In this video, you'll learn a quick, easy, and affordable method to restore your pan using simple household ingredients. No expensive cleaning products are needed—just an effective technique that helps loosen tough grime and leave your cookware looking much cleaner.
In this video, you'll discover:
How to remove old grease buildup
A simple method for tackling stubborn burnt stains
Common cleaning mistakes to avoid
Tips to help keep your pans cleaner for longer
Whether you're cleaning a frying pan, skillet, or stainless steel cookware, this easy method can save you time and effort.
đź‘Ť If you found this video helpful, don't forget to Like, Subscribe, and turn on notifications for more home cleaning tips and kitchen hacks!
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00:00There is an old frying pan in near every kitchen that has seen better days.
00:05Greasy and grimed and dull, with a brown sticky film baked onto the outside and the handle and down in
00:12every seam.
00:13The kind of grime that builds up so slow over the years, you stopped seeing it until one day you
00:19look and wonder how it got so bad.
00:22And most folks either scrub at it in vain or just live with it.
00:26Well, I'm going to show you how to take all that old baked grease and grime off, easy and quick,
00:33with two plain things from your cupboard.
00:36And then, how to protect the pan properly so it stays good.
00:40And then, because I hate to waste a good tip, I will show you a handful of other fine uses
00:46for a thing you likely have in the shed.
00:48Let me show you the whole of it.
00:51Here is the thing to understand about that grime before we start.
00:56And it tells you why scrubbing alone fails.
00:58That brown sticky film is old grease, cooked and re-cooked onto the metal over months and years until it
01:06is baked on hard.
01:08And grease baked on like that does not simply wash off with soap, for it has bonded to the pan.
01:14It wants two things to shift it, something to break the grease down and a gentle grit to lift it
01:21once it is loosened.
01:22And the two cheap things that do exactly that are baking soda, which is your gentle grit and your grease
01:29cutter both, and an acid, your vinegar or your lemon, which breaks down the grease and the grime and helps
01:35lift it.
01:36Put the two together on the grime and give them a little time to work, and that baked on film
01:42loosens its hold and washes away.
01:45Now let me give you the way of it, step by step.
01:48Quick word before we go further.
01:50My name is Esther Yoder, and the old household ways handed down to me, the kind I am sharing today,
01:57and a great many more besides, are far more than I could ever fit into one video.
02:02I have gathered the whole of them into a book, and you will find it at EliasYoder.com.
02:08If today's tips serve you, that is where the rest of what my mother and grandmother taught me lives, all
02:14in the one place.
02:15Now to the pan.
02:17My grandmother kept her pans bright as new for 40 years and more, and she used to say that a
02:23pan is a tool, and a tool cared for outlives the careless owner of a dozen,
02:28and that there is no grime so old it cannot be taken off if you know what loosens it.
02:33She had no special cleaners, only her soda and her vinegar and her lemon and a little patience, and with
02:40those she kept every pot in the house gleaming.
02:43So here is her way with a grimed old pan, and it costs you almost nothing.
02:48If your pan comes apart, if it has a handle that unscrews or any part that takes off, take it
02:55apart first,
02:55for the grime hides worse down in the seams and the joins where the handle meets the pan, and you
03:01want to get at all of it.
03:03Once it is apart and you can see the whole of the dirt, you begin.
03:08First, sprinkle the baking soda over the greasy, grimed places, a good covering of it, right onto the film and
03:15down into the seams, everywhere the grime has built up.
03:18Do not be stingy, give it a good coat all over the dirty parts.
03:23Then add your acid on top of the soda.
03:25You can use vinegar or you can use lemon juice, either does the work, so use whichever you have.
03:31The plain white vinegar is cheapest and the lemon leaves a sweet smell, so take your pick.
03:36Pour or squeeze it over the soda, and it will fizz up a little where the two meet, which is
03:41only the soda and the acid greeting each other.
03:43Then pour a little water over the whole thing so it is all wet and covered, and now comes the
03:49part that does the real work.
03:51You let it stand.
03:52Leave it be a good 15 minutes, and longer does no harm at all, for while it sits, the soda
03:58and the acid and the water are all working down into that baked-on grease,
04:03breaking it down and loosening its grip on the metal.
04:06This is the heart of the method, the letting it sit.
04:09Do not skip it and do not rush it.
04:12Give it its 15 minutes at the least, and when the time is up, you take your sponge or your
04:17brush and you wash it, and you will see how easy it comes now.
04:22All that old grime that would not shift before, now wiping and scrubbing away with hardly any effort, because the
04:29soaking did the hard part for you.
04:31The soda gives just enough grit to lift the loosened grease, and it comes away and rinses off, and your
04:38pan is bright underneath where you had forgotten it could be.
04:41And if a stubborn bit of very old baked grime remains, do not fret. Simply repeat it.
04:47Another sprinkle of soda and acid, and another 15 minutes soak, and the second going over takes off what the
04:54first did not.
04:55Old grime sometimes wants two goes, and that is no failure, only the nature of a thing years in the
05:01building.
05:02Now, once your pan is clean and bright, you will want to protect it, to put a good layer on
05:08it that keeps the grime from baking back on, and keeps a bare iron or steel pan from rusting.
05:14And here is the right way to do that, the real way, food safe and proper, for this is a
05:19thing you cook your family's food in, and you must be careful what you put on it.
05:24The honest protective layer for a pan is seasoning, which is nothing but a thin coat of cooking oil baked
05:30onto the metal until it turns hard and smooth and slick.
05:34And it is easy. You take a little cooking oil, any kind you cook with, and you rub it all
05:39over the clean, dry pan, a thin coat inside and out.
05:43And here is the secret folk get wrong. Wipe it back off. Wipe it until the pan looks near dry,
05:50until you would swear there is no oil left.
05:53For a thin coat bakes hard and smooth, while a thick coat stays sticky and gummy.
05:58Then you set the pan in a good hot oven, or on top of your stove, for a good while,
06:04half an hour or an hour, and let that thin coat of oil bake right into the metal and turn
06:10dark and hard.
06:11Let it cool, and you have a fine protective layer, food safe and slick, that keeps the grime from baking
06:17on, and keeps the pan from rusting, and only gets better the more you cook.
06:22That is the real protective coat, the one our grandmothers used, and it is oil and nothing else, for it
06:29is oil you may safely cook on.
06:31And then the daily care that keeps a pan from ever grimeing up that bad again, which I will give
06:37you plainly, for it is the whole secret to a pan that stays bright.
06:40Wash it while it is still warm, with hot water and a brush or a bit of soda for a
06:46scour, going easy on the soap so you do not strip your good seasoning.
06:50Never leave it to soak in water, ever, for standing water rusts iron.
06:56Dry it at once and completely, and set it back on the warm stove a minute to be sure it
07:01is bone dry.
07:02And then, while it is warm, rub the least little bit of oil over it, wipe it near dry, and
07:08put it away.
07:09Cleaned warm, dried at once, and given its wipe of oil each time, a pan never builds up that old
07:16baked grime at all, and only gets better and blacker and more slick with the years.
07:21Now, I had promised you a few other good tips, and here they are.
07:26For there is a thing many of you keep in the shed, one of those cans of spray oil and
07:31solvent, the sort for creaks and squeaks and rust.
07:34And while I would never have you put such a thing on a pan you cook in, for it is
07:38a petroleum thing and not for food,
07:41it is genuinely useful about the house for the jobs it is actually made for.
07:45So let me give you its true uses, off the cookware entirely.
07:49The first and best is the creaking door.
07:52You know the door in every house that groans and squeals every time it opens, on its hinges, and sets
07:59your teeth on edge and wakes the baby.
08:01That squeak is metal rubbing dry on metal in the hinge, wanting oil.
08:06So you spray a little of that oil right onto the hinges, top and bottom, work the door back and
08:12forth a few times to let it work in,
08:14and the squeak is gone, the door swinging silent and sweet.
08:18A moment's work and one of the small daily aggravations of a house just vanishes.
08:24And where you have not got such a can, a drop of plain cooking oil or any light oil on
08:30a squeaky hinge does much the same,
08:33worked in the same way, so no one need go without a quiet door.
08:37The second good use is stiff old scissors, or any hinged tool gone stiff and stubborn.
08:44You know how a pair of scissors gets over the years, stiff and hard to work, or spotted with rust
08:51at the joint, near seized up.
08:53You spray a little of the oil right at the pivot where the two blades cross and turn, and then
09:00work the scissors open and shut a good many times,
09:03letting the oil work down into the joint, and they loosen up and cut smooth and easy again, near as
09:10good as new.
09:11The same works for the pruning shears and the pliers, and any hinged tool that has gone stiff or spotted
09:18with rust.
09:20Oil at the joint and work it, and it comes back to life.
09:23It is a shame to throw out a good pair of scissors gone stiff, when a drop of oil in
09:29a minute's working will save it.
09:31And a third, while we are at it, a sticky old lock or a key that will not turn smooth.
09:38A little of that oil worked into the keyhole, and the key turned back and forth a few times,
09:44frees it up and it turns sweet again.
09:46And a squeaky hinge on a gate, or a stiff drawer slide, or a bolt gone stubborn.
09:53All the same, a touch of oil where metal rubs metal and it moves easy.
09:58That is what such a can is truly for.
10:01The creaks and the squeaks and the stiff joints and the light rust about a house and a workshop,
10:08and used for those it earns its place in the shed.
10:11Only keep it, and all such things, well away from your food and your cooking,
10:16and keep it up out of the reach of the little children, for it is not a thing for them.
10:22Now think a moment about why we throw out a grimed old pan and buy a new one,
10:28or a stiff pair of scissors, when a little soda and vinegar and a drop of oil
10:33would have saved the both of them.
10:35It is worse than a plot, for no one had to arrange it.
10:39There is a great fortune in selling you a new pan every few years, and a new pair of scissors,
10:45and none at all in teaching you that soda and vinegar clean the one, and a drop of oil
10:52frees the other, and that a coat of baked oil keeps a pan good for a lifetime.
10:58So the old knowing how to clean and care for and mend the good tools you have,
11:04which every grandmother had by heart, just stopped being handed down,
11:08because no one profits by your keeping a thing forever.
11:12My grandmother's pans and scissors outlasted her, and somewhere between her kitchen and ours,
11:19we were taught that a tool is a thing you use up and replace.
11:23The mending of it is soda, vinegar, and a little oil.
11:27You sprinkle the soda and the vinegar on your grimed old pan, and let it soak and wash it bright.
11:34You protect it with a thin coat of cooking oil baked on, the real food-safe seasoning,
11:41and tend it warm and dry and oiled each day so it never grimes up again.
11:46And you take your oil can to the creaking hinges and the stiff scissors and the sticky locks,
11:53off the cookware where it does real good.
11:55And you keep your good tools bright and working for a lifetime, for the cost of near nothing.
12:02That is how it comes home, one soaked pan, one oiled hinge at a time,
12:08the keeping of your own good tools back in your own hands.
12:13So here is what I would ask of you.
12:15This week, take that grimed old pan you had near given up on and clean it the old way,
12:21the soda and the vinegar and the 15-minute soak, and then season it back with a coat of oil,
12:28and then come back and tell me in the comments how it came up,
12:32for I do love to hear a good thing saved from the scrap heap.
12:36And tell me, too, while you are there, your county and the age of your house,
12:42for the old houses have the good old heavy pans worth saving and the old tools worth mending,
12:48and I learn from every one of you what treasures turn up where you live.
12:53And if your own mother or grandmother had a way of cleaning a pan or mending a tool I have
12:59not named here,
13:01tell me that most of all, for that is how this goes.
13:04We share what we were given.
13:07I read every comment, and I learn from you the way the old women learned from one another across the
13:13fence line,
13:14one kitchen and one season at a time.
13:18Next time, I will show you the whole art of caring for your kitchen pans and tools,
13:23the seasoning and the sharpening and the mending that keeps a few good pieces serving your whole kitchen for a
13:30lifetime and more.
13:32There is a right and an old way to keep the good tools of a home that runs on care
13:38and knowing rather than on buying again and again.
13:41But this week, you start with the one grimed pan.
13:46You sprinkle it with soda and vinegar and let it soak and wash it bright.
13:51You season it back with a thin coat of baked oil, the food safe way, and you take your oil
13:57can to the squeaky hinges and stiff scissors where it belongs.
14:01And you will understand, as my grandmother did at her own stove, that there is no grime so old it
14:09cannot be lifted if you know what loosens it,
14:12that the only true protective coat for a pan is oil you may safely cook on, and that a good
14:19tool cleaned and cared for outlives a dozen thrown away.
14:24The kitchen kept the plain old way is the one that remembers how the old women kept every pan bright
14:32and every tool working for a lifetime with soda, vinegar, and a drop of oil.
14:39And that is a thing we are only just starting to remember.
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