Fi's Fact of the Day: Cleaning Burned Grease off Pans

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So I burned some olive oil on a pan I used yesterday into one of those really difficult grease burns that seems like it's fused to the pan.  But!  I learned a trick for this from other people who know more about these things than me!  I am boiling some baking soda in the pan now and the stain is detaching from the bottom without horrific amounts of scrubbing on my part so that's cool.

Update:  The stain is completely gone now.  Did not have to do any hard scrubbing, just disposed of the now-crusty looking baking soda and lightly scraped it with a fork and then used the sponge a bit.  Yay!