Mark Thorson wrote:
>> therustyone wrote:
>>>
>>> Yellow glass pans (not ordinary pyrex) ere very common in the 90's
>>> and I still have a yellow glass frying pan in use. They are now
>>> retro items for collectors on eBay.
>>
>> I can pick up a set of three handled pots of assorted sizes
>> with lids from that series. I wonder if I should both?
>
> I HATE those things! I got a free one when they first came out. I
> don't recall now how I got it for free. I used it all of twice. The
> first time it was just for heating up some sort of canned vegetable. I
> didn't have a microwave yet. The second and the last time was to make a
> single serving of macaroni and cheese. From scratch. Both times the food
> burned and stuck to the pan. The mac and cheese was next to impossible to
> clean out of that pan. So I threw it out.

More recently I tried using one at my parent's house. My mom doesn't cook
very often, doesn't have many pans and all of the ones she had were in use
except for that one. I was heating gravy from a box and once again, it
burned.

I should add that I am not one of those people who burns food very often.
Once in a while my rice will get too dry and it will stick a little to the
pan. I did get rice burned to the bottom of the pan once. And occasionally
I will burn a few pieces of popcorn. That has been all in the past probably
20 years or so.

When I was younger I did burn things a few times. I can't remember the
particulars now but I do remember using a method that I read about in some
book. Cover the burned food with baking powder (quite a bit of it) then
water then bring it to a boil. Let cool and most of the time the burned
food will scrape right out. Once in a while you'll have to repeat this.
This method has never failed me.