Quote Originally Posted by MaxJ View Post
The green scouring pads will scratch the mirror finish right off the pans! I say this as I scrubbed a small section in the middle of the 2'x4' back pan and now it has a scrub mark of scratches. Baking soda and water paste will help and it will neutralize any pan cleaner if you go the way, rinse, rinse, and do another to make sure.
True, you may lose that mirror finish...but at least you'll have got the worst of the burnt on stuff off. Remember I said I worked in a restaurant kitchen - they don't care too much about cosmetic details like that, they just care about getting stuff as cleaned up as much as possible. You should see how battle-scarred those pots and pans are!

There is also a cleaning product I use in my business whose texture is roughly like that of toothpaste, that I used to help get cooked-on food residue off of my buffet pan, but don't know how it would do on such a bad burn. But it does clean without killing the finish. If interested, it's called Scour-Off and is a Shaklee product.

Oh, and silly me, thinking that today would a sap-free day cause it's nice and cool out. Nope! As I was loading up the car with laundry I heard that telltale plink-plink-plink...checked...looks like all my late runners, who've been sitting back giving good but not crazy amounts of sap, are now starting their run! And it's still clear and gorgeous sap...Noooo!!!!!