Cleaning roasting pans ...

Galtizz

I bought a silicone (?) rubbery plastic 'thing' for scrapping bits off pans from a local cookware shop for 95p.

It is square with a thick side for a handle and a thin side for scrapping, it's brilliant and it stops my hubby using a brillo pad on my stainless steel baking tins and new stainless steel hob (which just needed a quick wipe with a damp cloth but is now permenantly scratched) >:(

Sheel

A few years ago I bought a tray for soaking the barbecue grill in from Tesco for about £6 which is great for soaking large roasting pans , oven shelves etc overnight in a washing powder or other solution. Don't know if Tesco still sell them , but I noticed this morning whilst shopping on the Lakeland site that they have THIS ONE

Curry_Queen

Oh you bunch of heathens!!!!! :eek:


Doesn't anyone here use the scrapings from their roast tin to make delicious gravy???? All you need to do to loosen any burnt/sticky bits is heat the tin on the hob and add some wine!!! It's a well-known process called de-glazing and reduces down to make delicious gravy

A quick wipe-out with a damp piece of kitchen towel and bob's your uncle!!!

Scrubbing and using soap products will actually make things stick to your tin as you destroy the protective layer built up by cooking!

sonic

Sarahsaver wrote:

My mum stayed up here last week. She said to me that she was told at school in home economics class that the blacker the roasting tin the better. They build up their own protective layer which is is effective as the non-stick stuff - and cheaper too! She went to school in the 1940s, in the days before teflon pans and dishwashers.

Absolutely right. It's called 'seasoning' the pan. Can't have that and a shiny surface though. Choose one or the other.

moggins

All my oven trays are black, now I just have to stop hubby from washing up my wok instead of wiping it round with some kitchen towel.

MimiJane

Maybe it's just me, but I HATE the burnt bits left in pans! It all has to come off I'm afraid ...

MATH

Curry_Queen wrote:

Oh you bunch of heathens!!!!! :eek:


Doesn't anyone here use the scrapings from their roast tin to make delicious gravy???? All you need to do to loosen any burnt/sticky bits is heat the tin on the hob and add some wine!!! It's a well-known process called de-glazing and reduces down to make delicious gravy

A quick wipe-out with a damp piece of kitchen towel and bob's your uncle!!!

Scrubbing and using soap products will actually make things stick to your tin as you destroy the protective layer built up by cooking!

PMSL @ Curry Queen

Mrs MATH is always complaining about the state of my roasting tins and on the occasion she uses one makes a big thing of lining it with tin foil amid much curling of lip, rolling of eye, and the odd disparaging sniff. Now I normally bust grime before it's past the gate but IMO, and there's no nice way to say this - the dirtier they are the better they work.

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I have just read through this lot of postings and towards the end there was a posting about a large recepticle for putting tins ect into. I have still got my old plastic baby bath(my babies are 38 & 36 now)I use it for soaking almost anything in.I have also used it a a large oblong thingy to soak wallpaper in when decorating, and also as a big paste bucket when decorating,less chance of it fallingg over. My old baby bath not only bathed my two girls ,but over the years has also bathed my 7 grandchildren,not all at the same time though !

Str4berr3

I use the Non - Stick foil to put over my baking tray so when its time to wash-up, all I need to do is wash the grease off. This foil is'nt cheap but I only use his for my roast and other food that are guaranteed to stick.

I have got one of those Non - stick silicon paper thingys ( reusable ), but the cons of this is you cant really mould the paper around the tray so it would be tricky when you are trying to pour the juices of you roast meat out.