: snipped-for-privacy@zurich.csail.mit.edu wrote: : :> Scorched food residues. Aluminum baking pans used for roasting. :> :> How do you clean an aluminum baking pan that was used for roasting?... :> there are baked on black, dark brown, light brown difficult to remove :> residues. :> :> How would that home cleaning remedies guy on public television, Graham :> Haley, clean it with some compound of various proportions of vinegar, :> baking soda, baking powder, cream of tartar or other substances?... :> especially without need for any elbow grease! :> :3M pad, full strength Dawn, elbow grease. Be a fanatic about cookie :sheets, which should be bright and shiny. Roasters can be dark and it :doesn't matter. Or pitch the old one, buy a new stainless one.
For cookies I use a teflon coated pan. I don't bake cookies on my aluminum cookie sheet anymore. I use it for other oven tasks, not cookies. Stainless, it seems to me, would have problems of its own. Teflon cleans so readily, it's really just the thing for cookies. Cleans in a snap. Must use plastic utensils and scrubbers, however!