<p>Thanks, over30. I hadn’t thought of baking soda.</p>
<p>bethievt said: “I just texted him and he said the smoke detector was ok because they had recently set it off. That’s reassuring.”</p>
<p>I guess it’s nice to know it works… but it wouldn’t reassure me that he had set it off!</p>
<p>studentengineer is not the only person that read the title wrong the first time! I thought, why are they asking about pot on this forum?</p>
<p>make that another person who read it as ‘burned pot-safe’ and thinking that’s an interesting question to ask on this forum, in addition to the mental images of a ‘pot safe’!</p>
<p>Well, that tells us a lot about Cafe denizens!</p>
<p>Since I set off our smoke alarm regularly, I can’t say much about that. At least they were in the apt to hear it.</p>
<p>I wonder if any of the boys will actually have the fortitude to scrub off the black char in the pot? He will need a heavier-than SOS metal scouring pad. Or he can try oven cleaner, which will soften the black, but he needs to wash the lye-based solution off carefully afterwards.</p>