Dirtiest Pyrex dishes ever. Are they salvageable?

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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.

This may be the most satisfying thread I’ve read on MN for ages. Following for updates …

I would put any over cleaner on it and cover with cling film, then use a scrub daddy/ scraper. There is a cleaner on YouTube called Auri Katerina who cleans ovens/trays like this it's a good method.

I get not wanting to waste stuff and doing your best from the environment. But if I was getting second hand stuff, I'd not really personally want dishes that had been sitting filthy in someone's cupboards for a long time (years?) and then covered in stuff like toxic oven cleaner... I'd bin them!

You can use mr muscle oven cleaner. Spray them. Put them in a bag overnight and ride in the morning. Job done.

Oh my, I wish these were mine. This would be a perfect and satisfying way to spend an hour on a Sunday afternoon

I'm shaking my head reading most of these. I don't think anything will get these clean again. They're too far gone. Burnt food and glass have become one, like Jeff Goldblum and the fly. My glass dish is nearly the same and I have a dishwasher, it does fuck all for burnt on food.

If you're going to stop using them though you could put them in your garden as a nice shallow receptacle for creatures to drink from? I have one in my garden for foxes and hedgehogs and the birds.

Im just here for the After photos.

Send them to Fairy and see if they will include them in their new commercial and get them squeaky clean or for their development lab.

We are all very invested in the outcome. Please keep us updated!

Since there are so many clever cleaning people here, I have some steel pans and oven trays that have black burnt parts on the inside that I don't know how to get off. Scrubbing with the green side of a sponge and soaking does nothing. What do you recommend? I have pink stuff, a metal scrubby thing and soda crystals, are they safe to use on something I'm going to eat from?

The pink stuff and a car ice scraper (used just for this purpose) works a treat on the oven door

I have some steel pans and oven trays that have black burnt parts on the inside

That's exactly the sort of pan my dishwasher sorted out (with some suitably high-powered dishwasher tablets). Took more than one run through, and they did need a little scrubbing in places, but they are now gleaming and shiny.

Soak in boiling water with a large amount of biological washing powder.
After a day put them in your dishwasher on the longest wash with a fairy platinum plus dishwasher tablet. They get my oven shelves clean.

Also desperate to see the after pictures.

Sorry but just to rewind a second - did someone up thread say they used cream of tartar to remove baked on scunge and have we all blithely skated on past without wondering wtaf it does to us the rest of the time?????

OP - I too am here for the after pics. It's not as good as sporner corner but the volcanic cysts have been a bit a thin on the ground recently.

My boyfriend has a dish like this
I need to prove I can clean it!!

Take them outside and out of reach of any pets, and spray them with Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner.
They will be as good as new.

Checking in on my “lunch” break (weird late Sunday shift). I love MN, you bunch of weirdoes! Now I have a responsibility to you all to try and save the bastards.

OK. We’ll start with an overnight soak in washing powder and go from there!

i'd go straight to oven/bbq cleaner.
the spray on stuff. it won't hurt the glass at all and won't soak in and be dangerous to your health.
so don't bother with elbow grease or soaking go straight to the hard stuff.

On a group I am on, people are leaving their dirty oven racks on the grass overnight, and then in the morning they are clean!

I don't know what magic happens in the grass as night (I reckon it's the neighbours dog come over for a good lick or something), but you could give that a try.

I will put a disclaimer in here though, that I am such a slattern that I let my Labrador lick out the scraps from a pyrex dish once, after he had left not a trace, he excitedly began carrying the dish around the kitchen. He dropped the dish and it shattered all over the floor. It was fairly clean though, before it went into a thousand pieces.

So I don't really recommend this method, but perhaps the magic grass is worth a shit. If you don't have a Labrador, that is....

Shot of course. Not a shit.

There's a TikTok video where they clean some really caked on saucepan bottoms with salt, baking soda, washing up liquid - mix that lot together on the bottom of the pan, layer on some paper towels then soak with white vinegar. Not tried myself but lots of videos where it seems to work!

I know my TikTok viewing is very dull - but there is a whole rabbit hole of cleaning TikTok!

I'd see those as a challenge. Something will get it off. I'd even consider taking a razor blade to the bastards.

Sterident tablets works a treat on mugs . Leave overnight. Might help.

I'm just here for the reveal!

My last tenant left the pans in a similar state! I put them in the dishwasher on an intensive cycle
Absolutely amazing results! Wish I'd taken some photos now

He hadn't actually cleaned anything for a year 🤮🤮 just a quick rinse