How To Clean Le Creuset Dutch Oven Stains

I purchased my outset Le Creuset Dutch Oven (5½ quart, or 26 cm) xx years agone and have used it regularly through the years. As one might imagine, the interior enamel has become quite discolored through utilize.

The same affair has occurred to my other Le Creuset Dutch Ovens. Although the discoloration doesn't impact the functionality of the Dutch Oven, it is a bit cruddy.

Over the years, I've tried many unlike approaches to eliminating the discoloration. These approaches included the Le Creuset cleaner, baking soda, vinegar, a mixture of blistering soda and vinegar, soft-scrub, and a diluted mixture of bleach and water (1 teaspoon of bleach to 2 cups of water every bit recommended by the manufacturer). Nothing seemed to work.

Then I came across a method from Cooks Country that suggested using a mixture of i part bleach to three parts water. Co-ordinate to Cooks Country, this ratio of bleach to water was OK'd past the manufacturer. I tried it. It really works!

Given the size of the pan, I concluded up using 1 cup of bleach and 3 cups of water. After almost a hr, the stains on the lesser were significantly reduced. However, the stains on the sides remained.

I tried swirling the pan, but information technology seemed obvious that I needed to do something that would permit the bleach/water mixture to actually remain in contact with the sides of the pan. Then it hit me – why not line the sides of the pan with paper towels, and swirl the pan so that the paper towels soaked up some of the solution?

Guess what? It worked! After another hr and 30 minutes, the discoloration was gone. The pan didn't await quite new, merely information technology did look way improve than earlier. Gauge for yourself!