I have burned many pans in my life, but never one beyond repair. Usually a little soak with baking soda and a good scrubbing will take care of the problem. However, this pan was way beyond repair. Steel wool didn't even touch it! I left the rice on way too long and went to do something--probably computer related. Did you ever notice how the computer sucks up your time? You sit down for 5 minutes and 2 years later you look up to find that you've missed your child's graduation. Anyway, after 3 days of soaking and 10 minutes of massive scrubbing, this is what the pan looked like.
Shortly after I killed the pan, this marvelous contraption caught my eye at Costco. A rice cooker. I always believed they were a waste of money. Why did anyone need a whole separate appliance just to cook rice? But this one could steam veggies AND cook the ever difficult brown rice. With visions of healthiness, I bought it. I have yet to steam veggies or cook brown rice, but we no longer live in fear of the aroma of burned white rice permeating through the house. I love that I can turn the thing on and the food cooks without any more help from me. If only someone could invent a garden that grew that way. Just plant the seeds, walk away, come back and eat.
This just proves my theory that all problems can be solved at Costco.
Look at the cute little squirrel...not the one in the red shirt, the smaller one behind the fence.
