HI! I have a few of my most favorite aluminum baking pans and lids that are brown with baked on grease etc...and I have not the strength or endurance to stand and buff them with a scratchy pad til they gleam....are there any cleaning chems or soaps that will do this for me?? Thanks!! Mama never told me there\'d be days like this!Homemade Aluminum Pot Cleaner Recipe Ingredients: Cream of tartar White vinegar (can use lemon juice as an alternative) Directions: 1. Fill your aluminum pot with water. For every quart added add 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar and 1/2 cup of vinegar (or lemon juice). 2. Bring the solution to a boil, and then continue boiling for 10 minutes. 3. Carefully pour out the solution, and let the pot cool. 4. Once the aluminum pot is cool enough to handle then wash and dry the pot as usual. of course this can be adapted to clean flat bakeware as well.put pans in sink boil some water with cream of tartar and pour on pans allow to soak as water cools scrub pans should take care of issuesDo you want the lecture why you shouldn\'t be using aluminum utensils to cook with? Aluminum leeches out and is associated with dementia, birth defects, and heavy metal poisoning. In future, line your baking pans with parchment paper for 1) easy clean up and 2) to prevent metal leeching. Okay, now how to clean-to-gleam without scrubbing (which is pretty close to impossible). Method 1: Put your empty pans on the stove and heat them up until they are super hot (a baking sheet will need to cover two burners). Once they are really hot, stand back and pour water in them. This should at least loosen all the crud so you only need to to minimal swishing to remove most of it. Method 2: Put boiling water in your sink, a good dishwashing liquid such as Dawn de-greaser, and let your pans sit for an hour or so. Neither method will get your pans gleaming, only scrubbing will do that. But again, you don\'t want to scrub as you are then wearing away the surface of the metal which leads to more leeching. Many chemicals react negatively with aluminum, leaving dark stains on the metal. Mama never told you there\'d be days like this because she thought you\'d get yourself a set of stainless-steel Revereware cookware. Seriously, consider dumping all your aluminum (not just because of easy clean up, but for health) and replacing with stainless, glass, or steel or porcelain-coated. I know, standard baking sheets ALWAYS come in aluminum unless you\'re Gordon Ramsay and can afford over-the-top-quality stuff, so this is why god invented parchment paper.Thanks, have all of the above that you mentioned...just that a few are favorites as I can pick them up easily - bad shoulders and elbows have weight bearing issues....I don\'t even cook all that much, but seem to burn a lot - even when boiling eggs....it is a miserable commentary on a day in the life of Aunt Susie....Other related question