[TinaW]

Can anyone help me, I made some marrow and tomato chutney last night and forgot to keep stirring it and consequently it stuck and burnt onto the pan. I've emptied the remaining chutney into a bowl and surprisingly it doesn't taste burnt but it's not as thick as it should be. Can I just put some more sugar in and re heat it or will that make it too sweet? The recipe included dates but I don't have anymore  so would it be ok to add currents instead? Oh, and has anyone any ideas for cleaning the saucepan, I think nothing short of sand blasting will get it clean

[Val H]

Re-heat in a clean pan and add a little cornflour mixed with water. This should do the trick. Put some biological washing powder in the burnt pan, boil it up and then leave it overnight.

[TinaW]

Thanks Val I'll give that a try. I don't have biological powder, do you think soda crystals will work?

[Val H]

They should work but biological powder works better. If it's an expensive pan, it's worth buying the smallest pack of biological powder possible. We keep a bit in for when I burn the preserving pan!

[mumofstig]

It's a bit gross but it worked for me ......soak pan for a bit and then put it out in garden where your slugs and snails are!

I found this out by accident.....I burnt a big pan and when I couldn't clean it I threw the dirty pan up the end of the garden because I was soooo very cross. The next day the pan was spotless...a miracle

[TinaW]

If it doesn't come clean I might just give that a try, I have enough of the slimey blighters.

[Poolfield2]

It's a bit gross but it worked for me ......soak pan for a bit and then put it out in garden where your slugs and snails are!

I found this out by accident.....I burnt a big pan and when I couldn't clean it I threw the dirty pan up the end of the garden because I was soooo very cross. The next day the pan was spotless...a miracle

At last something good about slugs and snails