HELP!! Hard water salts on cooking pans

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Roseman2 Des Moines, IA(Zone 5a) Jun 10, 2006

Here is a good question for the women that cook all the time.
What is best to use to get the salts out of cooking pots, They turn the pots white & crusty & if I use a SOS pads it scraches all of the coating off, I heard you can use vinegar.

If vinegar works do I use the white or apple cider vinegar or is there something else I can buy, I don't want to throw away the pot away. Does anyone have any ideas??.
Jerry.

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WUVIE Hulbert, OK(Zone 7a) Jun 12, 2006

Hi Jerry,

Sounds like you have hard water in your area. Many people do
not realize that hard water makes a drastic difference in their
hair.

Here is an interesting bit of reading about hard water:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/housing/356-490/356-490.html

A tip on hard water deposits on your dishes, though I don't
use our dishwasher nor have I ever tried this:

If your dishwasher or dishes become stained from hard water, just run a package of Tang orange juice crystals through the dishwasher with the stained dishes in it.

Cleaning hard water deposits:
http://www.mrscleannw.com/tips/hard-water.html

Getting rid of hard water deposits:
http://www.ehow.com/how_114283_rid-tap-water.html

Hard water, exactly what is it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water

Hope this helps.

Karen


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Roseman2 Des Moines, IA(Zone 5a) Jun 12, 2006

Thanks Karen.. I looked at 2 links & they both said to use vinegar but distiled or white vinegar, I need to use this at 50/50 Water & vinegar & a little lemon juice & boil it for 1 hour.
Jerry.

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gcfq Orlando, FL(Zone 9b) Jun 12, 2006

When we use to boil water for bottles we would end up with this problem and we would use lemon juice and water. If that didn't work we would boil the solution.How much you use depends on the hight of stain.Start out with little and keep adding.
Robin

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araness Auburn, AL(Zone 8a) Jun 12, 2006

You can also buy products at Wal-Mart to clean coffee pots, this works for me with pans that have the hard water spots.

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kooger Oostburg, WI(Zone 5b) Jun 13, 2006

Vinegar works great, Jerry.

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Roseman2 Des Moines, IA(Zone 5a) Jun 13, 2006

Thanks everyone for the ideas, Now I have some things to try so I can save my pots.
Jerry.

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