Dirtiest Pyrex dishes ever. Are they salvageable?

[LemonViolet]

OK NO JUDGING AT THE STATE OF THESE PLEASE!!!

I found these languishing at the back of the pan cupboard when I went to put away a lovely new pan and it didn’t fit. Not used for aeons and from an old life really when I was a student-style clueless slob well past the age that I should have known better!!!

This is very old, very thick dried grease-grime, solidified on. I don’t want these dishes now as I have some beautiful colourful Le Creuset stoneware that I am unhealthily obsessed with carefully clean after each use. Clearly I didn’t take care of these in the same way.

If they were in decent condition then I’ll donate them, otherwise it’s landfill and guilt sadly. Is there a way to save these does anyone think? They’re beyond a squirt of oven cleaner and a scrub with a sponge I think.

We got given ones like that by someone emigrating. Soda crystals left to soak and biological washing powder did the trick. They came up like new.

Daz and boiling water, then cover and leave to soak for 24 hours

@LemonViolet

I’m now wondering if buying new nuclear strength cleaning products and single use plastic bags might negate the point of trying to save them from landfill to assuage eco-guilt-stress!

That is a valid point.

What about immersing them in a solution of bio washing powder in a bucket or trug or similar, and putting in the shed for a few weeks? This way you use what you have and give them a chance?

Soak in hot water then rub over with a dishwasher tablet-will take a bit of elbow grease and several tablets but should do the trick

Absolutely no judgement here just waiting to see the finished result.

That looks like my oven door by the time I get round to cleaning it every few years. Dishwasher tablet is the best I've found but it has to be the right kind. I find the all in one kind too soft - it needs to be one of the basic type that you need separate rinse aid and salt with.

Oh this is going to be so satisfying. Thank you for sharing!

Hot water and laundry powder (has to be powder not the pods). Soak them in a bowl of it.

Fill them with boiling water and a few scoops of vanish clothes washing stain removing powder. Leave overnight. It works a treat. You’ll not get them clean by hand or in a dishwasher. I feel better about my own pots now 😳

Another vote for Lakeland oven cleaner.

If you want to throw them away, throw them away. Do you feel like you should because it's disgusting and says you're disgusting? Because it doesn't. Throw them away as a gift to your poor struggling past self.

Otherwise you could try boiling them in coke but you'd need a giant pan!

Bio laundry powder and a long soak in boiling water. Ideally overnight. The gunk will fall off in the morning.

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I had good success on my oven door using one of these

Koh and one of their black sponges. It cleaned the grease off my oven like it wasn’t there.

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I'd try pink stuff. It's 99p in b&m. It's surprisingly effective and doesn't take much effort.

Agree. Pink stuff is witchcraft, it works SO well on this sort of stuff. Smear it on, leave for a bit, attack with kitchen scourer.

I cleaned a dish like this with a bowl filled with hot water and Vanish. Cover it with water/vanish liquid and leave overnight. Rinse and scrub lightly with a nylon scrubber. Job done

I saved a badly burned pan with cream of tater and boiling water.

For those, I'd be tempted to try either strong degreaser or oven cleaner, leaving them to soak at least over night (probably outside!)

Soak in VERY strong bleach solution in near boiling water.

I would just donate them to the glass recycle bin.

Will you use them after you have gone to all this effort of cleaning them up? I too use Le Creuset and my Pyrex don't even get a look in these days.

But I know it's proabably nostalgia and all....

They can't be recycled as they're not clean.

Try some oven pride rubbed in and placed in a bag over night. Then a brillo pad to scrub it clean

I watch a youtuber who cleans stuff like this with oven cleaner, just leave on for half an hour and rinse really well

I think you'll get them clean. It's only dirt. Old dirt can be cleaned too. Soak in water with cleaning products you already own. Change the water occasionally. They'll eventually come up "clean" enough to go in a dishwasher. If you don't have a dishwasher maybe a friend will do them for you (after a few cycles of soaking of course).

I'd slather them in the pink stuff paste and leave for a day or so then scrub and rinse and finish with the dishwasher tab trick. Good luck!

They can't be recycled because they're Pyrex.

I think recovering them will be quite satisfying. Start with really good soaks and work from there.

Of the suggestions on this thread the one that definitely won't work is bleach - that'll just change the burnt on goo from black to white but won't remove it.

Oven cleaner will work, but bio washing powder is probably the cheapest solution.