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Blackened bottom of pans and pots when cooking on gas or wood.

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Daze823:
when I was in the boyscouts, we learned to coat the bottom of pans with soap, but we didn't use liquid soap, we used bars of soap and they did the trick just fine.  You could cook over an open flame and the pots would be no worse for wear.

and the bar soap doesn't make a mess, I wouldn't hesitate to use it indoors as far as a mess, but I'm not a chemist and have no idea if heating soap puts off some kind of toxic fumes.

DWard51:
Oh mercy me, a flashback to eons ago when I was an organic chemistry major in college...

The chemical makeup of Propane is C3H8.  When burned in the presence of Oxygen, the by products of a perfect burn are carbon dioxide, water and heat.  Insufficient oxygen in the burn gives soot water and heat, with soot being pure carbon, and some carbon monoxide thrown in for good measure.  So the answer is to open your air intake vane a little more if you have and adjustment for the air intake.

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