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Default help cleaning enamel pot- was covered w/foil paper in oven- help


KOS wrote:
> Hello, I have a yellow enamel pot- I was cooking something in oven and
> had to put foil paper on outside of pot.... Now there is dark coloring
> on the outside of yellow pot from foil paper... Dont know how to clean
> this, wont come off with soap and water..please help


If truely enamel (enamel is paint) by cooking with it in an oven hot
enough that it discolored (you don't say the temperature) then the
damage is permanent, you chared the enamel. There exist inexpensive
carbon steel pots that are painted with enamel and then coated with
clear porcelain, they are mainly decorative and should never be used in
an oven or for cooking over high heat like frying... they make okay
pasta pots is all. Better quality carbon steel pots are coated with
pigmentized porcelain, those can be used safely at higher temperatures
and are much less likely to discolor.

Sheldon