Don't Boil Your Pots Dry

Maybe it's the stress of being the only one in my household bringing in any money, maybe it's the dread of work, of facing the people I work with day in and day out for 12 hours straight.  Maybe it's the stress of being under-trained.  Maybe it's the stress of screwing up and getting absolutely no help except from the one source I never expected.

At any rate, I boiled a pot dry this morning on my stove.  I'm thankful it didn't start a kitchen fire.

After cooling off my pot, I googled fervently for a way to fix my mistake.  I wanted to make sure I could keep this pot.  After all, it's the perfect size to boil water for my tea in!  Otherwise, it's perfect size for making small amounts of sauces.

This is what I found: lencurrie.com. This blog post was so helpful.

She suggests putting water and detergent in your pot and bringing it to a boil, then let it simmer for about 10 minutes.  I used equal parts water and vinegar instead.

She emptied out her water-detergent mix and let vinegar soak in the inside of the pot over night.  I'm just letting my vinegar-water mix cool in my pot over night.


If you follow the link, you'll see her pot came perfectly clean!





- EDIT -

Okay, so my pot didn't come quite as clean as the other girl's did...  So this time I'm going to try exactly what she did... because it worked.



- EDIT -

My pot still didn't come completely clean of the marks caused by boiling it dry, but it's still safe to use so I'm continuing to use it.  I like to think I'm not too snobby to use a pot that has been stained!