Aunt Bea
Master Chef
I've been cleaning my kitchen cupboards and getting a couple of boxes ready for the thrift shop. The other day I pulled out a couple of old Pyrex pie plates that had so much baked on gunk around the decorative edges and handles that I was ashamed to put them into the donation box! Then I remembered a tip that I think the Chief posted about using ammonia to clean the baked on gunk from stove grates. I put the pie plates into a 2 1/2 gallon Hefty ziplok bag and poured 1/2 cup of ammonia into the top pie plate. I sealed the bag and let it sit for 24 hours. This morning I washed the two pie plates in hot sudsy water with a sponge scrubber and the gunk came right off with no scrubbing! One of sparkling pie plates went into the donation box and the other went back into the cupboard. Now I have a couple of old casseroles in the "gas chamber"!