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“I’m on a quest to clean my favorite pot,” is how one TikToker put it while revealing burnt-on grease on the underside of a frying pan. Oh, but aren’t we all? Decorative pot racks seem like a great idea — until, that is, they reveal the nightmare of rusty residue hiding beneath your hard-working cookware. And let’s not even get started on the gunk that adheres to the business side of cookware and refuses to come off. I mean, you should see my favorite Pyrex.
TikTokers are taking care of business by testing out cleaning products that claim to finally remove all of that stubborn residue. And the great news is that they found five bonafide viral cleaning products that truly do the trick — from creams and sprays to pastes and powders. The great thing about TikTok, of course, is that if you don’t believe it, you can see it with your own eyes. The five products below — available at Target and Amazon — perform their kitchen miracles so well they’ve become viral superstars.
So if you love to make a mess in the kitchen, go for it! There are stews to slow cook and cookies to bake and chickens to roast — it’s all part of running a well-oiled kitchen. But stop treating caked-on grease and gunk like it’s par for the course. Start fighting back with these viral cleaning products.
Bar Keepers Friend
Bar Keepers Friend keeps it old school: it’s a powerful powder inside of a cylindrical container, and it’s just over $2 for 21 oz of this powerful yet gentle cleanser. This TikToker used it, along with a wet sponge, to create a paste that would clean what could very well be ancient grease from the underside of a recently thrifted pan. The secret? Letting it sit for 10 minutes as it breaks down the grease. “Boy, did that just melt away,” the TikToker said while scrubbing the pan for about eight minutes in total to gleaming results.
The Pink Stuff
It’s hard to describe the viral sensation that is the pink stuff. You would think that its famous because of its unlikely color, but then again that wouldn’t be enough for 133,000 Amazon shoppers to give it a five-star review and make it the site’s number one best-selling cleaning product. Nope, The Pink Stuff works. Take it from a TikToker who was left speechless Why how well the pink stuff cleaned a severely burnt pan. “The amount of stuff that this is able to clean when nothing else will is HUGE. I was able to remove adhesive that had been stuck on a fridge & been unable to be removed completely for years,” wrote a shopper.
Scrub Daddy Power Paste
The all-natural, non-toxic, and environmentally friendly Scrub Daddy Power Paste — sold at Target with the famous mold-resistant Scrub Mommy sponge — Is so effective At removing cookware gunk ( and so much more) that thousands of five-star reviewers are praising it high and low. “Gets all the burnt-on food and residue off in an instant!” one wrote. This TokToker wrote, “it’s safe to say I’m in love,” while scrubbing the nasty side of a white-enameled pot. “I mean look at the difference.” The pot? Immaculate.
Dawn Platinum Powerwash Spray
If the power washer you use to clean your house’s siding had a cookware equivalent, it would be Dawn Platinum Power Wash Spray. This is not your typical Dawn product — it’s actually five times better at making grease disintegrate. You don’t even need water. “No soaking” either, as this TikToker pointed out while getting a coating of oil and grease out of a perfectly fine pot. “It leaves me entire apartment with a pleasant aroma that sometimes I just spray it for fun!” wrote a giddy Target shopper.
Scotch-Brite Heavy Duty Scrub Sponges
Now for those baked-on, caked-on Pyrexes I was talking about earlier. For glass and ceramic cookware — inside honestly put enameled cast iron cookware in this category too — you have to be careful of scratches. TikTokers love the Scotch-Brite Zero-Scratch Scrub Sponges for their ability to both scour off grease and go easy on more delicate cookware. “The non-scratch sponge is also great for cleaning countertops,” this fan adds. “I like how they don’t scratch my precious metals and aluminum,” added a Target buyer.
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