How do you clean off burnt vegetable oil off the outside of pots and frying pans?

There is a can of powder cleaner I buy in the grocery store called "Bar Keepers Helper" that works wonders on this. Use with some sort of scrubbie and you can polish burned oil right off To that good answer we add this: Work outside if possible. Use lots of newspaper.

Wear eye protection and gloves. Be careful. (The "standard" cautionary offerings.) Oven cleaner will strip paint off of things, but it will not strip enamel off of vessels.

The enamel is effectively a ceramic (it has been fired on), and, as such, is impervious to the sodium hydroxide in oven cleaner If the frying pans are cast iron, put them over a hot fire on your barbeque grill, leave till the crust that has formed burns off. After they cool, wash, dry thoroughly, then re-season by applying a small amount of cooking oil to the inside of the skillet, and place in a warm (225-250 degree) oven for about thirty minutes Here is another option I would like to add that I found worked great, and it is environmentally safe plus no soaps or abrasive steel wool. If you have access to wood ashes straight from the fireplace, they work great to clean almost anything.

I was despairing about my heavy aluminum frying pan, but with a paste of ashes and scant water and a nylon scrubbie and a lot of elbow grease, I was smiling at the result!

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