Cleaning saucepan

soak overnight in baking soda and water.

Washing powder in saucepan boil it up a lot will come off

I do as stella1949 said. Use dishwasher powder.

I use soda Crystals and vinegar, it worked a treat when I burnt a pan the other week. Just sprinkle in the soda add vinegar it fizzes and leave for a while, then wash with washing up liquid, you may need a scourer if there are really tough bits.Let us know which method works for you.

I boil the dish cloth in the burnt pan using ordinary washing powder....two jobs in one!

Swear by soda crystals

[https://www.lakeland.co.uk/8904/Wash-Up-Wiz-Net-Scourer this]] is the scourer recommended up-thread by david. I've recommended this before and probably will again. They last me for months if not years and to keep them clean, I pop them in the dishwasher.

I would try boiling with water and washing up liquid if it was a stainless steel pan, but if it had a non-stick coating I would put it in the metal recycling bin.

I just use oven cleaning gel - smear it on, leave and hour, and the very toughest black burned stuff just rinses off.

Of course that's no doubt 'ecologically unsafe' but I've found the gentler things don't work when I've forgotten a pan and its contents have turned into Devil's concrete.

Works on ovens as well