Recently I've started to take over the housework at my parents house as they are both finding it too much to do as they are both quite old and infirm now.
I started in the kitchen yesterday cleaning and trying to remove decades of clutter.Indeed there were tools, screws, gardening stuff and all sorts in the drawers and several tobacco tins my father had put random things like half a dozen screws , some tap washers , a couple of bulbs and a stanley knife blade in, all a bit frustrating.
However, and more to the point of the thread, mother has quite a few pyrex dishes that have that ingrained blackish fat baked onto the surface and it's a absolute pig to shift. I've done a google but have come up with conflicting advice, some say heat the pyrex others say that's the worst thing to do, some saynot to use anything abrasive although I'd already started with a brillo pad
which up to now has seemed the only thing to work .
Obvious question then, is there a method that is kind to the glass and preferably won't involve me scrubbing for hours on end?
I started in the kitchen yesterday cleaning and trying to remove decades of clutter.Indeed there were tools, screws, gardening stuff and all sorts in the drawers and several tobacco tins my father had put random things like half a dozen screws , some tap washers , a couple of bulbs and a stanley knife blade in, all a bit frustrating.
However, and more to the point of the thread, mother has quite a few pyrex dishes that have that ingrained blackish fat baked onto the surface and it's a absolute pig to shift. I've done a google but have come up with conflicting advice, some say heat the pyrex others say that's the worst thing to do, some saynot to use anything abrasive although I'd already started with a brillo pad
which up to now has seemed the only thing to work .Obvious question then, is there a method that is kind to the glass and preferably won't involve me scrubbing for hours on end?
