HERB - Baking Soda

Donna Walden dewalden at flash.net
Fri Oct 30 09:47:19 PST 1998


Please pardon this _very_ late response to this post...

> One other thing that Baking Soda is good for: cleaning off burned-on gunk
> in pots. Put 1-2 inches of water in the bottom of the pot, and bring it to
> a rolling boil. Then add a few tablespoonfuls of baking soda and allow to
> effervesce -- you will begin to see bits of gunk floating up in the
> bubbles. 5-10 minutes of this will remove a good deal of the gunk and
> loosen the rest. Dump out the water and scrub out with warm running water
> and a scrubbie. Repeat if necessary.
> 
> Warning: this takes the finish off cast iron pots!

Do you know if this is safe to do with a wok?  I would love to find something to 
remove the buildup in ours!

Yvette Royd
Bryn Gwlad
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