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13 February 2009

Help me! I've just made oatmeal and I'm about to make rice. LOL. No, really: I made the oatmeal in a kettle that I recently totally toasted. I turned the wrong burner on and nearly caught the empty stainless steel pot on fire. Now it's discolored and looks slightly rusty inside when I cook w/ it. And there was some weird white stuff, only on the outside, around the seams. Is it safe to use?
Well, fine, a fat lotta help alla youse are. Probably too busy playing with your Three Handled Family Gredunzas. Oh, and that's real nice, throwing Three Handled Family Gredunzas in my face when you know perfectly well mine is missing and/or stolen!

Evidently burnt stainless kettles are safe, sez The Intarweb. And The Intarweb never lies.
posted by shane 13 February | 17:12
I've heard that you can scrub stainless steel with baking soda to get the burnt stuff off, but I've never tried it.

What I'd do is boil a cup of water in the pan for a few minutes, dump it into a clear container, and see if it's discolored at all. If it's not, I say go ahead and don't worry about it.

The white stuff on the outside won't affect anything.
posted by mudpuppie 13 February | 17:33
Thanks, mudpuppie. You always come thru. Now can you find my Gredunza?
posted by shane 13 February | 17:56
Did you check behind the bookshelf? That's where mine falls all the time.
posted by msali 13 February | 18:45
You might have an easier time finding it if you spelled it correctly. Was yours of the three-handled variety?
posted by doctor_negative 13 February | 18:54
I read this as you made oatmeal in a kettle while you were totally toasted. hee!
posted by taz 14 February | 03:49
"The white stuff on the outside won't affect anything." That's what I told her...
posted by arse_hat 14 February | 03:52
This is maybe two miles from where I'm sitting now || Within months, Barack Obama has declared a war on vague unease.

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