Friday Fun: Trying Out An Internet Pan Cleaning Recipe

 Last week I saw a recipe on the internet...maybe Facebook.  It was a way to turn sheet pans that had seen better days back to pristine shininess.

This is the pan I chose with the first little bit of baking soda on it.  Pretty grim looking.  The pan, not the baking soda...

Here is the pan filled with the first layer of the recipe:  baking soda.

This is a photo after adding hydrogen peroxide and turned into a sort of paste.

This photo (above) is after adding the Comet and the Johnson's Baby Shampoo and mushed around a lot.

The internet person said to let it sit at least six hours.  I left it for about 8 hours,

Here is the result after some serious scrubbing, but having said that, after several hours of knitting, the scrubbing hands were rather wimpy.  After the fact I wished that I have left the pan overnight.

You can see that there really is quite a difference between the top photo and this photo.  I am thinking that if I had been able to apply my hands a lot more to the scrubbing, the pan would be much shinier.  As it was, I did use a stainless steel scratcher after having started out scrubbing with a sponge with the green scrubby part on the back.  Did not really do much.

It is not really possible to see, but the surface is really smooth and more shiny than when I started.

This is about the first time that something I saw on the internet came out closer to what I had been led to expect. Usually I am just too gullible and the internet sucks me in to failures.  

 Maybe I will try again with another pan another day.