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• #Best way to clean a stainless steel pan how to

Stainless Steel is an alloy of metals including iron, carbon, chromium and nickel (you can read more about SS here). To be honest, most of my stainless steel pieces look like they are heat tinted and I can’t say it has really ever bothered me much. It doesn’t affect the performance of the pan nor the foods cooked in the pan. If you’re familiar with heat tint, it’s that ugly rainbow-like discoloration on your stainless steel pan caused by excessive heat or by heating a pan too quickly. Stains on Stainless Steel Cookware #4 Heat Tint Rust is basically oxidized iron and is only harmful if your body is unable to remove iron effectively. The rust should come right off.Īnother option is to use Bar Keepers Friend which works just as well.Īccording to the experts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bit of rust is not harmful and is quite benign in small quantities. Use a toothbrush, plastic scrubby or soft cloth to rub the mixture onto the rust.

If you want to go the natural route, make a thick paste of baking soda with water and cover the rusted portions. These will make the pan even more susceptible to corrosion. The first thing to do is to avoid using any steel wool, hard metal brushes or abrasive cleaners on your stainless steel pan. If you see a bit of rust on a stainless steel pan, your first instinct should be to reach for a pad of good old SOS steel wool, right?

#Best way to clean a stainless steel pan how to

How to remove rust spots from stainless steel pans How to remove rust spots from stainless steel pans and.If you are wondering what would make stainless steel rust, I’ve talked about it in my article here. But not corrosion proof and sometimes it does rust. Stainless steel by its nature is corrosion resistant. Stains on Stainless Steel Cookware #3 Rust Personally, I am going to toss my pitted stainless steel sauce pan, I don’t want to take the chance.

Others, however, warn that a heavily scratched and pitted pot will leach more of these metals and you should dispose of them. The chromium in the stainless steel would already have formed a new layer of chromium oxide layer over the pits and in theory, your pot is as corrosion resistant as before. For most of us, the amounts are not significant and by and large, stainless steel is considered a safe material for cookware.Īccording to most accounts, a pitted pan is still safe to use and will not lose its function though of course, it won’t look as good as before. Now if you’ve read my article on stainless steel cookware, or if you’ve spent any time researching stainless steel you would know that it does leach small quantities of nickel and chromium into food. Once your stainless steel pan is pitted, it’s pitted. avoid prolonged exposure to salty water, vinegar etc.) so that it doesn’t pit again.įor most of us who are not willing or able to grind a pan, I would say, no. However, when undissolved salt is added to a stainless steel pot (or water boiled dry, as in my case) the chloride in the salt can attack the passive layer of chromium oxide, leaving pockmarks where it removes the oxide.Īccording to, yes, by grinding out the pitted and/or rusted parts and being careful how you use it in the future (i.e. Now I’ve been boiling salted water (for pasta, rice etc.) for years so I know that salted water normally doesn’t damage stainless steel. It is this layer of chromium oxide that makes stainless steel passive and protects the steel from reacting with oxygen and rusting. Chromium reacts with oxygen in the air to form a thin layer of chromium oxide on the surface. I’m going to go into deeper detail for those interested in a more scientific explanation, myself included! The reason why stainless steel is resistant to corrosion is because it contains chromium. So clearly, the tap water that was boiling in our pot had some salt dissolved in it which went on to create pitting once all the water was gone. Pitting on stainless steel occurs in the presence of chlorides, like salt. Pitting is technically not a stain but an erosion of the surface of the metal.