Cleaning Baking Sheets (and the Crazy Thing that Worked Best!)

[Music] welcome to clean freak and germaphobe about a year ago i cleaned this baking sheet it was black we were ready to throw it away and i wanted to see if i could get it clean i did get it clean so even a year later it's still shiny it's amazing and i know a lot of people pointed out that it's scratched and it is than it was before i mean i don't mind that it's scratch i've used this many times since i'm not a huge baking person so i haven't used it a ton but you can see it's still shiny and there's all sorts of different kinds of baking sheets and they're all not going to look like that because they didn't start out like looking like that there's nonstick there's all sorts of different kinds of aluminum untreated and treated so the internet is full of different ways to clean these so if you have an old cookie sheet or baking sheet or whatever you call it i want to find the best way to get it clean when it came to that one that i just showed you it took me hours i'm not kidding hours i use so many things on it and mostly i scrub and spread and scrub with a brillo pad and so today i'm going to test out these popular internet ways to clean baking sheets and i have a whole lot of different kinds so this one i don't know it's it's kind of one of those thinner ones but it has a lot of this this is the stuff i hate the most it's that black stuff it doesn't come off it's actually smooth and it doesn't come off easily so that's also i've got this one and it's not very bad it's actually the best one of all it's got some stuff on the back everything seems to accumulate on the corner this one is a non-stick pan from food network and i always talk about how it is easier or harder to clean a pan and this one has these grooves all the way around i hate grooves i wouldn't buy this pan because of it but i also have another one from the same company from food network and this one's a lot worse so these are non-stick which means i have to be careful what i use on them i'm not going to use certain things on them because it will ruin them so anyway i have all these different methods and we're going to test them out so we're going gonna start with for my first trick i'm going to put this really bad this is probably the worst one pan in ammonia and this is probably a different finish than i'm used to using but i'm going to put it in this ziploc kind of bag and i'm going to put ammonia and this says that it removes tough dirt and grain so we're going to let it soak i'm going to start this one before we even do the rest so that it will have laundry soap it doesn't need to soak in it it's the fumes that clean it but this is a really strong chemical so make sure to have the windows open actually one thing i'm going to try first that i haven't seen anyone on the internet try yet and this is because of my experience cleaning ovens and i have the same thing going with ovens i'm trying to find the quickest easiest way to clean them but i scraped off a lot of baked on um grease with a razor blade i had one from the dollar tree that worked okay but it was flimsy so i actually have this heavy duty one that extends like this i don't really need that long part right now but i just wanted to show you because it's cool and of course as usual i'll have a link to that in the video description below with links to everything i'm going to try here i'm not going to use this on a non-stick pan okay we're going to try it on on this one first and what i'm basically trying to do is get off any mechanical build up i don't know if this is going to make it oh right there it makes a big difference i can get off that so this surface it actually works really well so like i was saying like all the tests are not equal because everything is different and i'm so glad that my neighbor had so many different kinds of hands because if you have this one that has a surface on it we can even take off the label this actually reminds me of the oven the glass in the oven that i cleaned in another video i'll also link up to that in the description okay so that looks so much nicer already and i think that's going to be pretty easy to clean off so razor blade does really work on that greasy stuff if it's a smooth surface by the way i put down some plastic sheeting and i've taped it so that i don't get any overspray on my countertops and ruin those and i'm also going to put on gloves because now i'm using chemicals i feel like i'm doing a science experiment today this is the easy off fume free oven cleaner i'll put a link to everything in the video description make sure to get the fume free it's so much better and it works just as well from my experience as the one that stinks die evan this one still smells just not that bad shake it really well i'm only going to leave it on for about 15 minutes okay i know the time's about 11 o'clock i'm hoping hoping hoping this stuff gets it off on the hard to reach places which is the corners and the top because those are just a nightmare to get clean that's a pretty good coat okay that's ready to just sit there the next one we're gonna do baking soda and hydrogen peroxide so this is a three percent we're just going to make a little mixture with this and make a paste so i have this arm and hammer it doesn't matter what kind you use but i've taken to buying this in bulk big big amounts and then you can get this for like a dollar at most grocery stores dollar tree has it too okay so you just want to keep adding the hydrogen peroxide until you have a nice taste i feel like i'm a cook right now that's too runny i think so i'm going to add a little bit more baking soda now it's kind of gloppy that's what we want okay so we're gonna let that sit we're we've got about four minutes more on the easy off can't really tell if anything's changed i do think it has some because they're look if i pull up the plastic there's brown i think that is you know working its magic and then we also still have this one it's even browner i think you see that liquid at the bottom super brown now we're going to try this this one is kind of a wing and a prayer but it's a dawn platinum foam five times more grease absorption because i don't have enough pans i got to do half and half i got some painters tape okay so this half is going to be bar keeper's friend and this half is going to be the height the five times power dawn i don't think dawn's gonna work for this at all like at all but i'm going to try it because i can't help it so this stuff you need to shake it first i'm gonna spread this around like we did with the other one and now for the dawn i have the spray kind and i like the pump kind a lot so far so i want to just try that okay now we have let our easy off sit for 15 minutes and take this out now i'm just going to rinse this okay i've got to say that overall it did take a lot off i mean you can definitely tell that it took a lot off because this was a lot more black but it didn't take off everything so i could either do another spray down i'm going to use one of these scotch brite fan scrubbies [Music] i'm just gonna rinse this now i never saw what these look like before but look at this it's coming better and the back is better but i mean we've got a long way to go here so i'm gonna leave this for 15 minutes on the worst spot and come back see if we can get this cleaner without scrubbing for hours okay so now we're gonna move on to this one and this is a funny one because we're going to use ketchup people will swear by ketchup because it has this acid in it we're going to take the scotch brite and just see if this ketchup works at all some people were surprised how well it worked just really surprising to me a lot of those gimmick things they work on the internet and i'm like they're just faking it you guys this is unreal to me unreal okay let's go and let that sit okay then lastly we're gonna do this side and the first thing i'm gonna do is try to use the magic eraser i've heard this work really well i think it might not work on this surface and i can't try it on all of them so we're gonna see these are the sheets and i don't have any of the blocks left so i'm just gonna get this wet and then see what we can get off look something is coming off for sure i'm gonna try the big block yeah it's just gliding over most of this look at that i'm not that's the difference between the brand name mr clean the magic eraser and they came out with these in 2005 and then this is when i got off of amazon and a golf pack where i read an article online that said you don't have to pay for the brand name you can get these cheaper ones because it's all the same but it's almost white and then look at this one so i really wish i had a mr clean like scrub a bigger brick but i don't so i'm just gonna keep working on this for a minute okay it's definitely not gonna clean up completely with this unfortunately we're coming back to this original one with the easy off to see what we can get off now okay i think that helps a little bit more but you know it's definitely not like i hoped because it's still doing something i'm gonna leave this one upside down and just come back to it again so let's come back to the ketchup now now i'm gonna rinse this off so i'm gonna put a quarter cup of borax but first let's get this warm okay it's already warm about a quarter cup of borax to warm water make sure it's all dissolved okay i'm just gonna let that fill up i'm just gonna rinse this off and use my scrubby to see if we can see a difference this is the dawn been sitting probably for like 15 minutes [Applause] that did help we're going to see if this side does any better with the bar keepers friends hmm so far right here is the best that i see of any of the spots that i've scrubbed you can see that's coming off so i kind of want to try this now comment just for a little kick okay i don't think the don did an awful job not the best okay so i'm going to try to soak this pan and borax in there because my sink just didn't soak enough we're gonna let that sit and see if that will help in the meantime let's come back to this pan you guys i'm actually thinking that comet is working better than barkeeper's friend or dawn that looks pretty good as far as like up here on this part [Applause] that was not one of the original things i thought i would test okay so let's turn this side we had the dawn before oh yeah okay let's rinse this whole thing [Music] it's not really working i'm gonna try some bar keeper's friend on this because the comment wasn't working and like i said every every surface seems to be a little different look how much better so now i'm getting crazy and just trying to catch up on this this is the bar keeper's friend it did take off a lot on the sides i'd have to scrub in the corners but i think like i have hopes i can get this completely clean with more scrubbing i'm not going to show you the scrubbing you get the idea and this side with the dawn it it did okay it wasn't terrible look on the sides right here especially we got offsides just going to try our ketchup over here well it's it's done some but i can't tell it's that different let's go back to the easy off okay the easy off is not easy off any more than it was i mean i'm i'm getting a little bit off but let's try this side oh yeah this side did not have it that's right we're gonna move to this one of all the things i mean this is a nonstick surface so it's different of everything i've tried this seems to be the very least like nothing unfortunately okay so there it is looks about the same to me okay now we're gonna go to the borax and it's been soaking for a little while yeah nothing seems to have changed here at all like now that might not be an honest a good test because it wasn't soaking very long let's see what we can get from this pan the very worst pan that we have it's really stinky so there we go with the ammonia let's just go over our results we've got this one with easy off and it is of the two pans way better way way better but it needs a lot more work we've got the ammonia soak and i could tell when i scrubbed it nothing was scrubbing off so that tells me because these are the same pans with the same materials that the easy off works better for this pan by far it's not even a contest so i wouldn't even bother with the ammonia i would just do easy off then we have the baking soda and hydrogen peroxide one this is a non-stick pan so it might be different for you if you have a different kind of surface but it didn't do a thing nothing okay then we have this one that had dawn on this side bar keeper's friend on this side and then we use comet and of all of them this is the second best okay so the first step to me is ketchup because it really did on this surface work the best i mean this is the closest to looking new of any of them that i clean okay so i would say i declare catch up the winner and this surprises me more than anything i wish i had more ketchup because i want to try on some of these other surfaces but this one's the best and then this one with borax solution didn't do a dang thing again this is nonstick and borax might work on some of these others so there we go i'm going to rank them number one ketchup number two this one which is a combo i would say bar keeper's friend and comment and scrubbing number three was easy off course this one was a challenge it's not really a fair contest because this one's so much worse but we can see a big difference then i would say the next one these are tied for the last place because they both look just about as bad as when they started all right that's it for my tests i'm going to keep working on these just for my own satisfaction see how clean i can get them i might add a little bit at the end of the video but if you like to give it a thumbs up share it with anyone who you think might need it thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next [Music] [Music] video [Music] okay we're gonna do the after i scrubbed and scrubbed with an sos pad and this is as good as it got so this one has already been the best and you know it doesn't take off whatever that is the non-stick pans just don't clean very well so i wouldn't get non-stick pans i actually would get the kind that i started with they're really heavy-duty ones but this one did get a lot off i feel like if i kept scrubbing for hours i might get it all the way clean that's pretty good this one's a different patina i don't know why this one doesn't look the same as that one maybe they aren't maybe they're made by different companies or just whatever was cooked on them made them differently different but this doesn't have a sheen at all where that one you know you can see that it has a sheen and then our other food network pan that's nonstick also didn't get much cleaner so here we go

Channel: Clean Freak & Germaphobe

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Length: 16min 35sec (995 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021