Burnt Enamel Saucepan

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 374, 23 August 1946, Page 27

Burnt Enamel Saucepan

Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder whether you could help me with a problem? A good enamel basin, used for making marmalade, has been badly burned on the bottom. Have you a remedy please? Yours sincerely,

Burnham

Well, funnily enough, in the same mail was the following letter, which gives an infallible cure, according to the writer, Dear Aunt Daisy, I was listening to your session one day, when I heard you talking about burned enamel saucepans. I have. three which have been in constant use for nine years. Sometimes accidents happen, the water bails away from the vegetables, or the stew or porridge becomes | burnt, but this is my remedy and it never fails, : Fill the saucepan to within an inch of the top with hot water, and add a teaspoon of caustic soda; if possible, leave for twenty-four hours. If the burn is a bad one, repeat the performance. Be very careful not to get the caustic or water on the hands. It is a good idea to use a piece of stick to rub the

burnt part.

Christchurch Link:

Thank you very much-it was a timely letter. Another way is to cut up an onion, skin and all, and half fill the saucepan with water. Boil it up for half an hour, and leave till next dey. Or just cover the bottom of the saucepan with milk, and put aside for 24 hours or more, when it should scrape clean. Anyway, try these.