I hate it when I do this, and I’d be lying if I said it’s the first time it’s happened..
Start boiling some water.. added (in this case it was a soup mix) ingredients.. and then go downstairs or get distracted.. 20 minutes later (conservatively).. SHIT!! I smell something!!
Here is the outcome after a brief scrubbing and leaving it outside overnight.
Ok, so I screwed up.. but since these are great Paderno pots.. I wanted to put in a good effort into cleaning them. Off to the Internet I go!
The first thing …

Well, “fired” is such a strong word, I wouldn’t really use it in this scenario as it wasn’t so much something that our cleaner did or not did.. it was more along the thought that  ”We’re paying you $50 every two weeks or so to do something that we could and probably should be doing ourselves.”
A few years ago, my older roommate and I had a really good system in which every Saturday.. we’d have what we called “the power hour” and we’d spend one hour of cleaning usually every …