Freshly baked cookies are the best. The crusty messes they leave behind on baking sheets? Not so much.

And that nonsense builds up after a while. The worst part is that no amount of elbow grease, dish soap, or black magic ever seems to make it budge. If you’ve wasted hours of your life that you can never get back scraping away at your pots and pans, you’re going to want to see what this product can do.

It’s called Bar Keepers Friend, and this miracle powder will help you melt all that nastiness away.

(via Little Things)

You can get a whole can of it for under $5 at retailers like Walmart and Target! It’s about time home hackers shared their cleaning secrets.

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