Get your frying pans sparkling again with this handy cleaning hack.

It’s easy for our frying pans to end up covered in grime and grease. We regularly put oil and other fats in them to fry things like meat, eggs, or vegetables, and this can leave them in desperate need of a clean.

Oil and grease can be cleaned with soap if you get to it quickly enough, but many of us will find that it doesn’t take long for this residue to become welded to the surface of our pans.

However, cleaning fans online have claimed there’s an easy way to get rid of any unsightly black marks on our frying pans. You just need one 65p item that might already be in your kitchen cupboards and a little bit of patience.

The hack was uncovered after one Reddit user said they were having difficulty cleaning their frying pan and didn’t want to use steel wool on it for fear of scratching the non-stick coating.

They said: “Cannot for the life of me clean off this pan. I’ve scrubbed so much with a regular sponge and a Scrub Daddy. I don’t wanna use steel wool because I think it’ll scratch the surface.”

The top suggestion from cleaning fans was to use baking soda – a common ingredient predominantly used in cooking that has become a favourite among cleaning enthusiasts as a natural cleaner.

But the advice wasn’t just to sprinkle it on the pan and hope for the best. Instead, you should mix some baking soda with water in the pan and then heat it up to loosen the grime.

One person said: “Fill the pan with water and a good blob of baking soda – then put it on the stove and boil for a while. It will loosen up [the grime].”

Another added: “If boiling baking soda water doesn’t get it 100%, you can use steel wool VERY lightly. I have what I think is this exact same pan.”

The original poster was quick to try out the hack for themselves just a couple of hours later, and returned to the post to praise how “easy” the pan was to clean when they tried the trick.

They wrote: “This worked! Thank you! I can’t believe how easy it was with the baking soda.”