Way back when I got a stainless steel hot tray for Christmas. I tried my hardest to keep it clean, but it got stained pretty badly from all the bottoms of thousands of pans and Pyrex microwave dishes and platters and stuff that have rested on it.

I tried Comet, I tried liquid soaps, I tried brushes. Nothing really worked. Then today I ran across a Facebook post from a friend who said he’d used something called Bar Keepers Friend to clean up a big hunk of steel he wanted to use in his oven to cook pizza on. Rod told me it worked like a charm, so I thought I’d give it a shot. I went down to Bed Bath and Beyond and found a can of the powdered stuff for $4.49. I followed the instructions and scrubbed and scrubbed. Then I made a paste and let that sit on the tray for a few minutes before scrubbing some more. I did that four times.

Behold!

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