Cleaning The Kitchen : How to Clean Baked-On Grease From Cooking Pans

Cooking pans accumulate grease quickly, and over time that baked-on grease becomes more difficult to tackle. Get rid of baked-on grease with the help of a cleaning coach in this free video.

Expert: Leslie Reichert
Bio: Leslie Reichert is a cleaning expert known as "The Green Cleaning Coach". She is a national lecturer and a home cleaning expert for Woman's Day and Martha Stewart Living Radio.
Filmmaker: Patrick Russell

Series Description: Solving common cleaning dilemmas often takes a little help. Learn professional deep-cleaning secrets with the help of a cleaning coach in this free video series.

[mdst]

would be nice to see the final result after overnight soaking.

[ircphoenix]

All you're doing to the baking soda by adding vinegar is neutralizing the base with the acid, or neutralizing the acid with the base.

So many cleaning instructions rely on these two things and say "you can tell it is working because it is foaming!"

No. That's how you can tell this particular reaction is turning BOTH potential cleaning products into a neutral hazy liquid that does nothing.

Baking soda alone does a pretty good job as a cleaner. And so does vinegar. But adding them together doesn't enhance either one.

[wishmaster]

couldnt help but notice the pan was just as dirty at the end of the video as it was at the beginning 

[asanam]

Chemistry 101 :: the "bubbling action" isn't cleaning anything.  The base ( baking soda) + the acid ( vinegar ) are reacting and neutralizing each other to form carbon dioxide + water + salt ( sodium acetate in this case ).  Use it as wikipedia suggests to "impart a salt and vinegar flavor to potato chips" or pickling, not for cleaning.

[teresalay]

If you think about it, by combining vinegar with baking soda you are just neutralizing the acidic vinegar with the base baking soda. About all that is accomplished the fun fiz and some scouring power of the baking soda

[JB]

So what is the Morton Salt on the table for?  Ad Placement?

[carolineorita]

Well, I wanted to see the end result.. is there a continuation

[waveoflight]

I need to move my couch. Could I spray it with vinegar and spread baking soda on it to lift it?

[dth]

Change you stream to spray on the squirt bottle. That's my tip.

[polarlab]

She didn't show the result after letting it soak overnight because it doesn't work see my other post

[Kathryn.K]

I had no luck whatsoever I waited for that reaction thing to happen I let the pans soak in hot water overnight absolutely nothing it didn't touch the baked on grease or whatever it is on my pans at all!

[john-kkhb]

funny enough try it last night. left the baking try overnight . didn't remove anything :(

[popoffs]

The acid and the vinegar react to destroy both of them and leave water and salt dang it
Have you ever made a baking soda and vinegar volcano

[kelpkelp]

What kind of vinegar though? White vinegar?

[hannahwilliams]

Get a magic eraser sponge thing. It takes elbow grease but it cleans it really well

[christinebarney]

I am going to try this and will be back to let you know it it worked,

[jayalexander]

everybody in the comments talking 💩 about how wrong she is...but not one of you told me how to clean my damn pan. gosh damn it 😢

[joedevitto]

im trying this.. what is the salt for ? thanks ~

[dylanhilton]

It would be better if you showed us the result.
They are both natural cleaners and work great with lots of things, thanks for sharing

[LA-bvfw]

I use this technique on my oven. I also use it to declog drains.