Did I miss the memo on how to properly clean your brand-new aluminum cake pans (magic line in this case)? This happened to me a month ago and I thought it was a fluke, but then happened again today with another set of new pans.
I washed and dried the new pans prior to greasing them. Finished mixing my batter, got out the homemade cake release, applied with a paper towel, and after the first swipe of grease the paper towel was COVERED in grey schmutz. OMG it was disgusting, all I could think of was: if it's coming off on a paper towel, is this stuff going to come off on my cake too?
Needless to say I scrubbed the bejeepers out of the pans, so hard I thought I was going to bend the pans. Everything was turning black: my scouring pad (just a scotch-brite green, not like brillo or anything), my hands, the water. Eeech. Tried to grease the pan again: STILL GREY paper towels! Another scrubbing and wiping out FINALLY appeared to get the grey out.
Thank goodness I used a paper towel to grease the pans - I would have never even discovered this if I'd just sprayed them with Pam. Yech!
Is this normal?? What's up with this??
Oh gosh... ewwwww. Good thing you noticed or you may have noticed when you took it out and had to rebake!!! I've never had that problem but will definitely be aware of that.
YES! I ran mine thru the dishwahser on pot scrubber mode and FINALLY got rid of it!
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