Does Baking Soda & Lemon Really Clean Pots & Pans? [Video included]

We had a rainy Saturday recently here in the Pacific Northwest. One of those days where I was grateful for the wet weather because it didn’t make me feel guilty for staying inside. I had been on work travel the week prior resulting in many things I felt needed to be done around the house.

I have talked shared on more than one occasion about my true love for cleaning and how it is a form of therapy in some ways for me. I love popping in my air pods and a pod cast and just clearing my head a bit while tackling some sort of cleaning or organizing that I think needs to be done around the house.

This does not mean my house is always clean. I work full-time and my kids are busy with sports. There are days I am barely home due to driving my kids all around town after a full day of work. You know that life, it is probably similar to your life.

Sometimes I will walk into a room or get a glimpse of a corner of the house and it will appear that it possibly has never been touched with any sort of cleaning before. It is amazing how quickly the house can go from pretty clean to absolutely atrocious.

On this rainy Saturday, I was minding my own business when something was practically staring me right in the face. A pan from that morning’s pancakes. It was also just minding its business sitting in the sink waiting to be cleaned. But when I looked at it and it looked me, I knew in that moment it needed more than just a standard dish soap and water. The bottom was tan and I think it was originally silver.

My mind immediately went to any hacks I knew to get that kind of grease off. At that same moment, my 10-year old daughter and her friend said they were bored. Immediately an idea was formed.

I had heard that lemon and baking soda worked to clean grime but had never tried it.

The girls were surprisingly interested in trying it out, so I gave them gloves, cut lemons and sprinkled with baking soda and let them work on the grease.

It was funny to me how into it they were so this is a great parent tip if you are looking for chores your kids may not complain about.

Watch this video to see the results!