What can I use to clean sugar sand off pans

[1951oliver88]

I have been soaking pans in sap turned vinager everything is cleaning well except sugar sand and places that were not soaking . What can I use for cleaning? When I was on the farm we used acid to clean the stainless that we used in the milking system. Seems like that would work any advice would be helpful

[sugarsand]

We cleaned our 4x12 with one gal of milk stone remover, pans filled as full as possible with water and left soaking for a couple weeks. Solution could be a little stronger, perhaps 11/2 to 2 gal, but for the most part it worked good.

sugarsand

[Bruce L]

Whey would also work,or you could dilute milk wth water to make a whey like solution

[Jec]

I used some phosphoric acid. I let it soak over night and when i came back in the morning they were practically clean. All I had to do was nutralize the acid with baking soda and power wash them.

[Vermonner]

x2 on the acid for stainless milking equipment, works great. neutralize after and rinse thoroughly.

[morningstarfarm]

is the acid ok for a soldered set of stainless pans?

[happy thoughts]

is the acid ok for a soldered set of stainless pans?

I'd say be careful. Even if your solder is lead free it may contain tin. Someone ruined a whole lot of syrup cleaning tin pans with phosphoric acid this season. See this discussion....

http://mapletrader.com/community/showthread.php?16576-Help!-Syrup-taste-like-metal&highlight=english+tin