WOW! These are THE TOOL for cleaning aluminum baking sheets!
I ordered these, not knowing if they would work. After trying a pad on 3 baking sheets, I am amazed! I had some aluminum (100% aluminum, no Teflon) baking sheets that have been a constant pain to clean. My kid and I scrub and scrub, just to get the sticky and the gunk off of them. (We later learned that baking soda and 3% hydrogen peroxide get rid of the sticky, then a soak in dish soap and water will loosen up the gunk so we can scrub it off.) The problem is: We still have discolored baking sheets that look like they have stuff on them. Just a few seconds with a scouring pad in my 5" random orbital sander made 2 of the 3 baking sheets look new. The third one definitely looked clean, but still had some discolored patches. Tip: Wet the pan, then use this scouring pad in a cordless sander. The downsides are: (1) It does not get to the corners of the baking sheets. (2) We can not remove the scouring pad from our cordless sander without tearing the hook-and-loop off the back of the scouring pad, so we might semi-dedicate one sander to the kitchen, which is expensive. (3) I don't think my cordless sander is rated for wet sanding, so I will eventually have problems if I am not careful. (4) It does not get into dents in the baking sheet. We regret throwing away some badly stained stainless steel baking sheets. I am tempted to go to every thrift store in town, looking for high-end but stained cookware to restore. Read more
