Saw a friend in Chicago try to clean his pan with a metal scouring pad

We were cooking at his place last month and he grabbed one of those green steel wool pads to scrub out some stuck-on bits. I had to stop him right there (I mean, you could hear the metal on metal sound). I told him that stuff will just scrape off all your hard work and leave tiny scratches. Has anyone else had to talk a friend down from a cleaning mistake like that?

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finley_lopez983d agoMost Upvoted

Metal on metal gets the job done fast, @emerydixon.

emerydixon29d ago

Ugh, that sound is the worst. Had a roommate who would do the same thing to my good pans.

troyp3729d ago

My buddy's old roommate used a metal fork on his nonstick pan every single morning, scraping up eggs like he was digging for gold. The sound was like nails on a chalkboard mixed with a dying robot, @emerydixon. He finally hid his good pan in his closet and left out a cheap one from the dollar store. The roommate never even noticed the swap, just kept on scraping.