How To Clean Baked On Grease From Pyrex

There are fewer kitchen cleaning problems we rue more than the gunky glass baking dish. It's an issue that starts pocket-size, but and so one day you open your cabinet to find a greasy, chocolate-brown mess has replaced your sparkling Pyrex. And nosotros've heard every trick in the book on getting these dishes dorsum to their once-spotless state.

Well. We wouldn't be Good Housekeeping if we didn't finally determine the all-time strategy, in one case and for all. So we turned to our resident "queen of clean," Carolyn Forte, director the Cleaning Lab in the Proficient Housekeeping Institute, to test four methods we've often heard people — or, coughing-cough, Pinterest — recommend.

Which strategy would make our super-muddied dishes gleam again? Here's are the results:

i. The Winner: Baking Soda + Dish Soap

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When battling a serious broiled-on mess, you demand to hit it with a one-two dial. We coated the bottom of this pan with baking soda and dish lather, and let it soak in hot h2o for about 15 minutes. And so, we grabbed a sponge and continued to sprinkle more baking soda over the stubborn spots every bit we scrubbed — and the abrasion from the baking soda easily lifted the grime away.

"This worked because it had all the correct components to dissolve stuck-on grease — a hot water soak, mildly abrasive baking soda, a scrub sponge, and some elbow grease," says Forte. "This method cleaned our dirty dish fastest and with the to the lowest degree effort."

2. The Close 2nd: Magic Eraser

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Though this method required a bit more elbow grease than we'd prefer (much more than the blistering soda and dish liquid, which is why information technology wasn't our overall winner), information technology did get the job washed. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser's scrubby surface was no match for the seriously stuck-on nutrient residue.

"What this tip was lacking was the soak time," says Forte. "Magic Eraser definitely made a noticeable dent in the greasy build-upwardly, merely without soaking the pan starting time, this method required too much effort and multiple pads."

iii. The Disappointment: Dish Lather + Aluminum Foil

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We've long heard that a brawl of aluminum foil tin crush your sponge in scouring match, but we just weren't wowed by this DIY tip. The dish detergent did what information technology could to lift the grease (nosotros soaked our pan in soapy warm water for about fifteen minutes first), but the foil didn't concur up its terminate of the bargain.

"The foil flattens quickly and doesn't provide the necessary scrubbing action. Choose a scrub sponge instead," says Forte.

4. The Big Fatty Loser: White Vinegar

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Vinegar is a super-handy natural cleaner, and so we had loftier hopes when we noticed bloggers pushing the magic of soaking grimy bakeware in the stuff. We dunked ours for twenty minutes before we started scrubbing — but alas, our efforts were for cypher.

"Don't waste matter your time or your vinegar on this tip," says Forte. "The vinegar didn't brand a dent in the grease on our drinking glass dish. Save your vinegar to clean your coffeemaker instead."

Don't Allow the Grime Build Upwardly Once more

The all-time manner to bargain with an icky drinking glass dishes is, of course, to avert the mess in the first place.

"Brand sure you scrub glass cookware quickly after each use," says Forte. "The longer grease builds upward, the more hard it is to remove. Pay special attention to the corners and handles every bit these areas are oftentimes more than challenging to make clean thoroughly. Afterward you launder and dry the dish, hold it upward to the lite to cheque information technology. Food residual is often non visible when information technology's wet and in the sink — it'south easier to see when dry out and held to the light."

Lauren Piro Senior Web Editor Overseeing all things dwelling for GoodHousekeeping.com and HouseBeautiful.com, Lauren swoons over midcentury design and employs tough-love approach to decluttering (just throw it abroad, ladies).