Most often when I find myself cleaning stainless steel pans, it is a pain in the neck to do. You have to wash and wash, and scrub and scrub, and it takes forever to get all of the cooked on food at the bottom of the pan. I have now found the best solution to cleaning stainless steel pans without breaking a sweat. The best way to clean the pans is to pour some vinegar into the pan and make sure that the level of vinegar is just above the spot where the cooked on food is. Once you have covered the food levels with the vinegar, you should proceed to put it on the stove and turn on the heat so that you can start to boil the vinegar in the pot. Boiling the vinegar will soften up the cooked on food so that you can rinse them away from the pan after you have removed the vinegar from the pot. This often is my “natural” solution to cleaning pans, because you don’t need to use any cleansers.