A few months ago DH put some frozen ground beef into our dutch oven/large stock pot type pan. He left a plastic spatuala in the pan, too, and walked away for something like an hour. The meat turned completely black, the spatula melted. The house stunk for weeks.I washed and soaked and washed the pan some more. I boiled water in it for several minutes trying to remove the last film of melted plastic, but I'm still scared to use it. The pan has teflon coating and the spatual was black, so I can't really see anything. Now this weather is making me want soup something terrible. We've just been working around using it for the past two months, but I need it.WWWD? Throw it out? It is a decent quality pan and it is going to be close to $100 to replace it. orHope that I got all of the bad chemicals out and use it?
I just a friendly gal looking for options.
