What do you clean aluminum pans and cookie sheets with?

Christine
by Christine
Cannot stand to look at my aluminum with the baked on grease. I soak/wash them in Dawn and have scrubbed them with everything I can think of. There must be a way to clean them up.

  8 answers
  • Melissa LB Melissa LB on Apr 23, 2018

    Try a lemon juice/baking soda paste.

  • Nancy Turner Nancy Turner on Apr 23, 2018

    That is why I started using foil on my pans when I put them in the oven. I could never get them totally clean. Now I use parchment paper or foil on them and don't have to look at them getting too disgusting.

  • Missy Burch Missy Burch on Apr 23, 2018

    Barkeeper's Friend is the only thing I've ever found to ever work.

  • See if this helps:


    https://m.wikihow.com/Clean-Aluminum


    https://www.jesrestaurantequipment.com/properlycleanaluminumcookware


    And here is a prior conversation on this subject:


    https://www.hometalk.com/diy/clean/house/q-cleaning-old-aluminum-pots-pans-set-13457555

    Cleaning old aluminum pots/pans set
  • Lin6417041 Lin6417041 on Apr 23, 2018

    Why not try oven cleaner?

  • Jennifer Trissell Jennifer Trissell on Apr 23, 2018

    I have good luck with elbow grease and a soap steel wool pad (SOS).

  • Ginny Ginny on Apr 24, 2018

    I think I answered this one yesterday but will try again again.

    Buy commercial/restaurant weight cookie sheets by Nordicware(?) from Sams Club in packs of three or WalMart (sold individually). Come in small and large sizes. Are worth the few extras bucks you pay for them. Have have four for at least 20 yrs. and there are almost no baked on gunk on them. Clean well with Brillo or plastic net scrubbie pads. My son used to borrow mine to make cookies so I bought him some of his own. Take a look and you will be sold on them. Good luck.

    • Excellent suggestion! A number of years ago I fell over some restaurant quality cookie sheets at Home Goods of all places. I think they were $10 each and I bought two. I went home and baked a batch of cookies and made a sheet pan dinner (now all the rage!), and they baked and cleaned well. I went back the next morning and bought 2 more for myself and a bunch extra as gifts. During any large cookie baking session it is so handy to have 2 trays in the oven and preparing 2 more when the first batch is out. Goes so much quicker!

  • Michelle Leslie Michelle Leslie on Jun 11, 2020

    Hi Christine, I make a paste of baking soda and water, apply and let it sit for a few hours, then use the rough side of a scrubber sponge to scour it off, repeat if needed.