How do you get rid of a container that was mistakenly cleaned with ammonia and then bleach?

Question

Okay, spare me the rants about how bad it is to mix ammonia and bleach, I ALREADY KNOW. It was an accident, I was cleaning my boyfriend's apartment as a favor and had noticed a teflon pan that had been left out too long and I spritzed some Lysol kitchen cleaner around and some got into the pan. I'd forgotten about it, then noticed some mold growing in it (which gives me the willies; few things make me more anal-retentive than getting rid of mold) so I put a bit of bleach into it to kill it off before giving it a good hand-scrubbing and about twelve rounds in the dishwasher. I put a lid on it thank god, it wasn't until a minute or so after I thought about the Lysol and checked the ingredients.

Sure enough, it said a bunch of stuff I can't possibly pronounce, but a couple of them ended with "ammoniate" on it, which I assumed was a fancy term for pure ammonia, so I freaked out, held a towel over my mouth and placed the pan, lid and all, on the patio far, far away from anything and anyone. It's been out there for a few hours now, what I wanna know is, how the heck do I get rid of this thing without hurting myself or anyone else? Am I just being paranoid? Or do I have to call in a hazardous chemicals control center and have my patio detoxified?

Answer 1

Don't get rid of it.  Rinse off, wash with soap.

The problem with mixing ammonia and bleach is that it forms chloramine gas, which is poisonous.  Once you put it out on the patio, all the nasty stuff blew away in the wind.  What's left is harmless.  Unless you managed to corrode the coating, the pan is just fine.