Other than scrubing burnt saucepans which I have been doing for days. Is there anyway of removing the black burn marks from saucepans?
Have tried everything.

Now I'm sure there's an old wives trick of boiling apples or rhubarb in the burnt pan that's supposed to clean it?

When I did it the only thing that came near to cleaning it was washing soda.  A strong solution repeated several times. use boiling water and put the lid on and leave to soak.  It is cheap to try anyway. 

Put washing powder in the pan, puyt it on the stove and leave it to boil :) (just dont let it boil dry!!)
Your house will smell your you grandmothers, so you will get a clean pan and some good memories all in one go :) :)
HTH
Lea :)

I have used washing powder before but with really burnt pans the only solution I have found is the bin :-)

hello

regular cola is supposed to do the trick, just leave it to soak over night and it should just wipe off..

fairy power spray is quite good too.

good luck!

Coke will definatley clean them if left overnight!

OK....now someone told me this to get rid of rust but it failed miserably.  :-(

hi
it wont work on rust as it is a corosive working on a corosive. so will just make it worse

works great on old coins tho!

The best and proven method of removing burnt on food is give it to your partner to do :)

:-D Like that one.

Glad I read this, now I know the coke trick I won't have hubby saying, "Why have you bought a new pan set again!" **Whoops!** :-)

We were taught at school in cookery to rub salt into the burnt parts and leave for a while.

Linda

I always leave coke in mine overnight, then boil the coke in the pan the next day. This has always worked for me :)