Cleaning Baking Trays - Tips

Crusted-on food residues and burnt-on grease stains often stubbornly resist cleaning actions with washing-up liquid and brushes. With a few tricks and the right tools, you can clean a crusted baking tray and save yourself hours of scrubbing. Nevertheless, you should clean baking sheets regularly.

Cleaning a baking sheet - with washing soda, salt or dishwasher tabs

Cleaning a baking sheet: These are the options you have

First clean the baking tray of coarse dirt. Then spread concentrated rinse water on it to the thickness of a finger and let it sit overnight. Usually the dirt can then be rubbed away with a kitchen sponge. Against heavier dirt works washing soda, chemically also sodium carbonate.

1. Spread about two tablespoons of soda powder on the sheet and fill it with boiling water a finger's width. Let it all soak in. Alternatively, you can also use dishwasher tabs instead of washing soda.
2. Then scrub the Blecht with a dishwashing brush.
3. If burnt remains, heat the baking tray on the stove and boil soda water in it.
4. Repeat the procedure until all the dirt can be easily wiped off.

Remove grease residue on the baking sheet with salt

Alternatively, salt has proven to get the baking sheet clean.

1. Verteilen Sie Haushaltssalz großzügig auf dem Blech, sodass der ganze Boden bedeckt ist.
2. Schieben Sie es dann bei circa 50 Grad für etwa eine Stunde ins Backrohr, bis sich das Salz braun verfärbt.
3. Nehmen Sie das Blech anschließend heraus (Achtung: unbedingt hitzebeständige Handschuhe tragen).
4. Salz herauskehren und mit heißem Wasser ausputzen.
5. Fettreste können Sie nun leicht entfernen.