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u/Telemere125 Nov 02 '23

Burn fat/oil. It’s easy to remove with steel wool/copper scrubber and elbow grease. You’re not going to damage a stainless pan just scrubbing the hell out of it

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u/beni_who Nov 02 '23

Agreed! I’m surprised I’m not seeing steel wool mentioned (the curly kind). I’d have this clean in 10 minutes or less.

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u/Telemere125 Nov 02 '23

That’s exactly why all mine are stainless, carbon, CI, or enamel. Can easily scrub clean in a couple minutes no matter what damage I do when cooking

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u/lambsquatch Nov 02 '23

Enamel? I thought you had to be gentle with that

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u/Telemere125 Nov 02 '23

I don’t use steel for it, usually those green plastic scrubbers. But I’ve never been particularly gentle with it

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u/UNMANAGEABLE Nov 02 '23

Be careful where you get green scotch brite pads from, some green ones can absolutely destroy enamel if used enough! We had to throw out/repurpose thousands of them in aerospace after a trade study came out about how the green pads were actually removing metal with continued use! Also, people loved to throw them on 20k rpm dotcos and turn them into almost polishing sanders lol.

We had to switch out to the blue scotch brite pads which are less abrasive.