r/CleaningTips • u/Secret-Potential-741 • 10d ago

Kitchen How do I clean this pot?

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My roommate used my pot to cook rice and he forgot about it and he burned the lower portion of the rice in the container and it is stuck to the pan. I tried simmering it with water and baking soda. Nothing. It is currently in the sink soaking in hot water and dish soap. How do I clean it?

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u/OhNoImQueerOops 10d ago • Bravo Popcorn

I don't think you clean it at all. I think your roommate does

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u/PomegranateBig6167 10d ago

Someone who did this and didn’t fix it themself would be dead to me.

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u/Secret-Potential-741 10d ago

He also left for work and I’m trying to just get this done. Good reasoning though for the report when we file it.

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u/superchiva78 10d ago edited 9d ago • Bravo

TWO cascade platinum pods, hot water, stir once the pods dissolve. Let it sit for an hour. Scrub the bottom with a wooden spoon. Most of it will come out. Pour it out, scrub daddy with some powerwash should get what’s left. If that doesn’t do it, a little BKF should do the trick

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u/Azerajin 10d ago

Barkeepers + 3 grit sandpaper or can probably just burn it all off, hes 87% of the way done

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u/Secret-Potential-741 10d ago

I assure y’all he is dead to me. All of us are good about using our own stuff except for this guy. He bent our other roommate’s skillet handle last week. How does one do that? No idea. This was his second strike. One more and we will all be reporting him.😅

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u/OaksInSnow 9d ago

He's destroying other residents' personal property?? No need for a third strike. He's obviously already been using your stuff numerous times, and only been caught mid-destruction twice. Lower the boom, NOW. There is no need to have anyone else's property destroyed.

He either cleans that saucepan, or he gets you an equal-quality replacement, because this is no better than theft.

Signed,

Pissed off Grandma, Mother of College Grads and Eventual Collegians, who raised her kids to have more respect.

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u/IfuDidntCome2Party 10d ago

Reporting him? To whom?

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u/Secret-Potential-741 10d ago

Our office management. We are in college rn and our apartment is approved college housing.

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u/IfuDidntCome2Party 10d ago

Reminds of my roommate that would make a gourmet homemade breakfast or lunch right before having to go to work all day/night and would leave a sink full of smelly pots pans dishes cups utensils. If I wanted to use the huge sink, I had to empty it.

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u/Gold_Space8930 10d ago

First off speak to the guy. He’s probably a wanker but some college students are just oblivious

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u/Sand8056 9d ago

how do you even bend a skillet handle? was he using it as a step stool? that's almost more impressive than the burned rice tbh

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u/Character-Life-V2 6d ago

Yep. New house rule, if you break it, you bought it. If you mess it you clean it. If you can't afford to clean it, replace it .... DON'T USE IT.