{"id":137,"date":"2021-01-31T21:09:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2021-01-31T21:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:09:50","slug":"make-stainless-pots-shiny-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/2021\/01\/31\/make-stainless-pots-shiny-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Stainless Pots Shiny Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I discovered this trick by accident.<\/h2>\n<p>For some reason my stainless steal pots get these weird white splotches in them after boiling water. It happens in my Instant Pot as well.<\/p>\n<p>I like to use vinegar to clean \u2014 because it&#8217;s cheap and I think it smells clean , don&#8217;t @ me \u2014 and I thought maybe it would help. Turns out it does.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Just add a few tablespoons or 1\/4 of a cup vinegar to the bottom of a pan. It doesn&#8217;t need to completely cover the bottom.<\/li>\n<li>Swirl the vinegar around for a few minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Scrub the bottom with a brush if it looks like stuff is still sticking. And rinse<\/li>\n<li>Make sure to rinse really good until there&#8217;s no more vinegar smell.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-138 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar-720x360.jpg 720w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar-580x290.jpg 580w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar-320x160.jpg 320w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-instant-pot-before-after-vinegar.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-139 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar-720x360.jpg 720w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar-580x290.jpg 580w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar-320x160.jpg 320w, https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stainless-steel-pot-before-after-vinegar.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From my limited research it looks like this is safe as long as you aren&#8217;t leaving the vinegar in the pots for long periods of time. Either way works for me and I&#8217;m probably going to continue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered this trick by accident. For some reason my stainless steal pots get these weird white splotches in them after boiling water. It happens in my Instant Pot as well. I like to use vinegar to clean \u2014 because it&#8217;s cheap and I think it smells clean , don&#8217;t @ me \u2014 and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,44,46,42,43],"tags":[57,62,63,59,61,58,60],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleaning","category-cooking","category-eating","category-tips","category-tricks","tag-cleaning","tag-cleaning-tips","tag-no-bs-cooks","tag-pots","tag-pots-and-pans","tag-stainless-steel","tag-vinegar"],"views":1000,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nobscooks.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}