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Nancy's recommendation of a self cleaning oven would work, but what
about the logistics of the procedure? Do you think for one moment that my
wife would let me drag a load of dirty pots from my yard into her
house, let alone placing them in her oven? Do the carbonized residues
fall out of the pots of their own accord or are they plastered against the walls
to some degree? Bleach cleaned pots are spotless after hosing. What
about the size of the load? I use 18 gal plastic tubs which hold a lot of
pots. Everything is done outdoors, right where I store my clean[ed] pots;
lots of elbow room and no mess in the house.
As for the economics, I pay $5.50/2.5 gal
pool chlorine good for about 5 or more loads. [When using the bath for
several consecutive days for a mess of accumulated pots, I use about 1/3 gal to
recharge it for each new load.] I never thought of the cost of
electricity for ovening the pots.
The gimmick that gets the whole procedure
to click for me is a pair of 22" stainless steel crucible tongs I salvaged
from my laboratory days. They were originally used for years for
fishing cleaned glassware out of very hot, concentrated sulfuric acid baths
[boy, does that ever destroy virus!]. They now encounter nothing stronger
than dilute bleach. Despite that 40+ year history of exposure to
corrosives, the tongs show nary a trace of corrosion.
Bert
Pressman
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