Cleaning my pans: PinFail

By now I am sure that just about everyone has seen the pin on Pinterest about how to clean your pans with hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. There are a few variations in how you apply the two ingredients but for the most part they are all the same. I will be honest that I have no idea where this has originated but here is one good post that you can see here.

As you can see this pan has been abused for years, literally. I will admit that at this point I was getting pretty excited.

Supposedly you make a paste of the baking soda and peroxide, so I did that in a different container. I did wear my yellow cleaning gloves for this, I didn't want to get this on me.

 Then I smeared it all over the pan... not enough. This time I just poured the baking soda and peroxide all over the pan and rubbed it around. I waited about 30 minutes before I started scrubbing. And nothing happened, the pans are not cleaner and they mostly look the same. There might be a few places where it looks better but mostly no.

I am going to call this a PinFail, I have no idea what people are doing differently than me. I will admit that my peroxide was old so maybe it was dead? I have since bought some new peroxide and truthfully a new pan. I don't think I am going to try this again because, it was sorta expensive (about 1/2 a box of baking soda and 1/4 bottle of peroxide). I will admit that when I found the link to the post that I used to cite my source almost all of the comments are about how it doesn't work, oops should have read that. On a side note: this mixture somehow leaves a fine white powdery film all over your kitchen... wish I had known that.

How do you get your pans clean? I tend to wash mine and I think sometimes they just age over the years and it isn't really a bad thing but it happens. Who knows, I will not be trying to clean my pans this way again.