My boyfriend placed a hot skillet on a plastic bread bag without knowing. Unfortunately, by the time we realized, the bag was melted onto the pan. We tried scrubbing but some plastic remains making the pan unusable. Any ideas on how to clean it? It's an expensive pan and we don't want to throw it away.
Use something like the side of an old knife to scrape it. I am assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that this plastic is on the bottom and won't show if it gets scratched. Or dampen a cloth so it's barely damp and pour baking soda on part to be cleaned and rub with cloth. Use enough soda to make a little pile, you are using it as a scrubber and it needs to be about 1/8-1/4 inch thick.
Try heat the pan again over a flame and then wipe off the melted plastic with paper towel wadded up (of course using something to hold the towel) or slide the bottom of the pan over newspaper until gone. Good luck!
I would heat up the pan to melt the plastic again and then scrape it off with something that won't scratch - like a piece of plastic or a plastic spoon - (don't melt them!) It may take several tries, but you should be able to finally get it off.
Try putting the pan in the freezer. Once it is cold enough to make the plastic brittle, you may be able to crack or peel the plastic off.
Go to an Auto Store and buy Label remover. Lift Off is one name or Goo Gone is another. The saleperson will know. If you have a O'Reillys Auto they have it.
Goo Gone or WD40 should work. I used Goo Gone to remove a melted bread bag from a toaster. You can get it at Canadian Tire and Walmart.
If the plastic is on the outside, reheat it with your hair dryer. Then use one of the small plastic bread fasteners to scrape it off. Take off as much as you can. Then you can use Comet or Ajax cleanser to get any residue off. I have had to do this with my toaster. Have fun and be patient.
Lowe's also has the Lift-Off and is really cheap! I had the decals one puts on a bath tub to prevent slipping on tile floor. Nothing took them up til Lowe's man told me about Lift Off.
You might also try WD-40 if you happen to have it on hand already.
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Place an old piece of cloth (that you can disgard) over the area of melted plastic and iron the area with a very hot iron. The cloth should absorb the plastic just as happens when you remove candle wax from an object or from carpeting. If that doesn't work, try some super fine steel wool, such as used for fine finishing between coats of paint, perhaps with a paste made from baking soda, if it still needs some polishing.
I put a very hot pan on a plastic cutting board. Will some of these methods for plastic bags being melted on outside of pan work for my situation too?
At work a plastic mattress pad was thrown into a dryer and it melted. There were clothes in the dryer as well. The melted plastic went onto the clothes. Then the clothes were washed and dried. Now the melted plastic is dried right into the pants. Is there anyway to get it out?
I just tried this on my iron which had a plastic bag melted on it. Heat up the iron or skillet just a bit to warm up the plastic. Once it's warm you get your Goo Gone and use it.
I just did this. Meaning, my hands are still hurting from it. Freezing does absolutely no good, Google and doesn't work either. I didn't want to put it on the stove again because I feared the plastic on the bottom of the pan spreading to the stove. I used a hair dryer and a non-serrated butter knife. Hold the hairdryer as close as you can, and move it only enough to get the butter knife under to scrape and then put the hairdryer back over, scrape Repeat.
I got blackened ziplock bag with tamales melted to bottom of stainless boiler when all of boiling water boiled out of boiler and plastic bag melted and stuck to boiler. Used a Dremel tool with stainless steel wheel and it came right off
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I tried that ;;I tried using a knife to scrape I tried steel wool I tried boiling water ;; I tried comet will not soften to come of
This is the only thing that worked. Thank you! I was about to throw my skillet away and buy a new one.
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Yep! I took a smoking hot pan and set it down in my sink on the the sink mat. It melted and adhered to the bottom of my pan.
I've used Goo-Gone and got off most of it. The I cleaned it and used Barkeepers Friend. There is some left.Scrape it off with the edge of an old credit card
A plastic utensil fell into the heating element and melted. A plastic film covers all my dishes. How to remove plastic film from dishes?
If cold releases wax from clothes and votives, maybe it would work on your dishes. Maybe a couple hours in the freezer would help?
Get most of the plastic off by pulling on it. Put hot tap water in pan while you boil water in another pot and pour it over the melted plastic after dumping out the tap water. Rub with a Dobie and fingernail. It comes right off.
I was trying to warm up frozen contents in a plastic storage container so they would drop out into a stainless steel pot. You guessed it, the plastic corners of the container melted onto the inside of the pot. Any suggestions for getting melted plastic out of my stainless steel pot?
By Mary Quantrall from Greenwood, IN
Chill pot in freezer for a while and use a sharp knife without serrated edges, probably a paring knife size, and scrape away. Chilling will harden the plastic, making it easier to pick at.
I had a plastic on the outer base of my pot because I had out it on a plastic placemat while it was hot. I used DW-40 on the base and scraped it off with a knife. All good now.
