Cleaning burnt sugar off the base of the Jug

[berpsie]

I had a recipe fail tonight.  Got sidetracked in the middle of making the sauce for the sweet and sour pork and put the sugar etc in and cooked it (stopped before the whole 30 min thank goodness) and now I have burnt sugar caked onto the base of my jug.  How the hell do you get it off short off scraping it and cleaning it for hours on end?  Does anybody have any ideas?  I have boiled it with vinegar in it and then salt but so far no good.  I read somewhere that cola will eat it away from stainless steal but I was worried about that.  Help please 

[achookwoman]

How awful for you.  Have you tried carb soda.  MIx with water , bring to the boil and turn off, let stand until cool.q

[Merrilyn]

I've done my fair share of burning things, but this always seems to work for me - first add water and vinegar (50/50) to cover the burned food.  Leave as long  as possible, at least over night, but better if you can manage for 24 hours.

After soaking, rinse with hot water and scrub as much residue off as possible with a plastic 'scrubbie'. Finally, add a cup of table sugar and turn it into icing sugar using speed 10 for around a minute.  This method leaves my bowl shiny and bright.

Hope it helps you.

[berpsie]

Thanks 

Used vinegar and water again and again and again and scraped the last bit off.  Will try the sugar as well!

[thermoheaven]

If it's sugar, I'd just soak it because sugar will dissolve. no need to scrub.