Bread As a Sponge for Oil Is the Best Kitchen Hack I Learned All Year - CNET

If you want to degrease a pan or the top layer of an oily sauce without ruining a sponge, a single slice of bread could be your new favorite cleaning sidekick.

While we have vastly improved how we dispose of most things, excess cooking grease still presents a problem. Down the sink? Not advisable. Neither is the dishwasher and even the garbage bin can become a gnarly affair.

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Getting the bulk of the grease out of a pan after cooking a batch of bacon or burgers is a good first step, but that greasy pan will either take down a sponge or half a roll of paper towels. What if a humble slice of past-its-prime sandwich bread was the all-natural foil for greasy pans you’d been looking for?

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