Kaye asks
In the “How to clean saucepans” section you recommend using ‘washing soda’ can you please verify exactly what it is that you call ‘washing sode’.? The only thing I can think of is washing powder from the laundry but surely that isn’t what you mean.
I get asked this a lot. People just can’t find soda ash in supermarkets. The reason is that it’s at ankle height, and most people never look at the bottom shelf.
Go into the cleaning aisle, lower your sight to the bottom shelf, and look for this:
I have yet to find a supermarket that doesn’t have it.
So why does it work so well?
Two reasons – it hydrolises the fats (the same as caustic soda), and the adsorption to the metal substrate helps separate charred material.
All you need to do is bring it to the boil, let it cool, then tip it out – all the fat will be gone. Check out the Lectric website for more recipes