For those wondering, ′′how did i do it?":
I boiled 10L of water, added 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of coke, and half cup of lemon juice, then stirred well. Waited 3 minutes, put the pan in the solution for 45 minutes, then added a quarter cup of chlorine bleach to the mixture. Then I brushed it with a firm toothbrush and put it back into the liquid for another 25 minutes. I took it out, rinsed it, and it looked exactly the same, so I threw it away, and went and bought a new one.
Edit: Please don’t actually make this concoction! The resulting mixture may produce poisonous gases! This toot is a joke, the pictures are not even my pans. I didn’t throw any pans away. Following these directions, despite the fact it probably won’t do anything useful, would be fucking stupid and you may win a Darwin Award.
@dgar Just drop the alkalines from the solution. Pour the bleach into the acid. The pan won't get clean either, but you are dead now so it stops being a problem.
@dgar I love all these "you can do this at home" things that have so many specific failure points that's they're impossible to repeat and the author will blame you for failing.
@dgar Next time donate it. There are Goodwills and Salvation Army stores
f*ing everywhere. There's a poor person out there who knows the formula, is willing to put on the elbow grease, and will keep it out of a landfill.
@davep@dgar I know, but we're just laughing at our throw-away culture, then, and I can't lie, that pisses me off. We've got a myriad of solvable problems that can aptly be addressed by mass cognition on the full life cycle, (including sourcing), of of the products we buy, and eventually dispose of.
I don't want to rob anyone of their sanity laughter. What I need to do, ethically, is be one voice in the sea of cacophony that says if enough of us engage, there's still hope.
@janisf@dgar I'm just saying, any time I've volunteered to sort donations I see plenty of stuff that I'm like "really? you won't even try to salvage this?" and I get told "Nope."
@naptowncode@dgar Yeah, it can be pretty bad. I tend to donate to our local veterans' donation center, they do a better job with that kind of thing. Imagine what might happen if we all started donating to that end and pressuring these orgs, you know, just because we can.
@janisf@dgar To the point of the original joke, there's a lot of nonsense in "DIY" culture that people want to believe in order to feel better about buying so much cheap disposable crap and abusing what we buy.
@naptowncode@dgar "Have to" to what end? Keeping its employee training program going? maintaining donations? It's a non-profit. It doesn't have to be there at all.
scrub lightly with mild soap and warm water to remove, you know, crusts and dead spiders
put in container with cleaning vinegar (6-9%), snug fit so as not to waste too much vinegar, then add liberal amounts of salt and baking soda (50 to 250 grams of each in equal amounts, depending on amount of vinegar)
enjoy the (very mild) chemical reaction and let soak for a couple of hours or a night
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