How do you clean cookie sheets?

Question

I have some cookie sheets, and I am wondering how to clean them, as they have that brown stuff stuck on there. I have been looking for an answer forever, and I can't find.

Help would be muchos gracias (greatly appreciated)!

Answer 1

I have always used soap filled steel wool pads (SOS pads). If you do a quick light cleaning with them after each baking session your pans will stay nice for years. I'd rather have the very faint scratch marks in the aluminum from cleaning with steel wool than have the burned on grease that you get otherwise. Here's a neat tip I picked up from a ThriftyFun post.........place your used, wet SOS pad on a small square of aluminum foil and it WILL NOT rust! This works great! It's probaby one of the favorite pieces of information I found! Another tip.......do not put aluminum articles in your dishwasher with dishwasher detergent. It will turn them dark and rough. You can however put aluminum in your dishwasher and run a rinse with WATER ONLY to get the surface gunk off. I do this when I'm cooking for a crowd and want to get a lot of pans rinsed so food won't dry on them before I can give them a good washing. They're out of sight, out of the sink and out of my way until after the meal is served. My kitchen is small, with limited counter space so this works very well for me.

Answer 2

Oven Cleaner and Sos pads will irreperably harm your cookie sheets if they are the nonstick variety. I tried that "magic"stuff they advertise on TV and it DOES NOT WORK. I have tried soaking, baking soda, and elbow grease, and even brushing with oil and baking empty sheets to cook off the gunk. I know how you feel! I finally broke down and bought new ones and have used parchment and silpats to do all my baking. After 2 years of heavy use they still look brand spankin' new. I kept the old ones to do things like potato wedges, as those don't get crispy unless they are touching metal directly. I have just accepted the fact that they will look gross forever. The gunk problem sometimes comes from spraying pam or other aerosol cooking sprays. They will gunk up your baking gear like nobody's business. But even normal baking with no spray cank gunk it up too. If there is a truly magic cleaning method, I'd like to know it too, but I think you'll just need new pans.

Answer 3

You dont clean cookie sheets you throw them away and replace them, cookie sheets are not met to clean. They usually come in a set when you buy them.

Answer 4

Use a de-greaser like Easy Off oven cleaner. It the same kind of baked on stuff that is in ovens.

Answer 5

you should use some dawn. dawn is really good. let it soak in hot water for a few minutes. then use extremly hot water and a sponge or brillo pad if needed and clean it off then rinse and dry