Help! Baked on grease on mini-muffin pans!

Can someone help me figure out how to get these pans clean??  I have 2 sets of min-muffin pans that i use for Tea Tassies.  They stick; especially when the filling overflows (and it always does!) so I greased not only the inside but around the outside/top of the tin.  One pan is non-stick, the others are very old pans my old boss passed on.  So now the tops of the tins (and a few I ended up not using) look awful with sticky yellow grease.  

Any ideas how to get it off?  I don't want to scratch the non-stick pan.  Would vinegar break down the grease?  It's literally baked on so soaking with just regular dish soap isn't likely to help.  

SOS pads will get it off easily. Use rubber gloves.

The old pans can be cleaned with an SOS pad, I've cleaned mine often with one. The non stick is trickier, Dawn makes a spray that is called a Power Dissolver, that works great. You might try a garbage bag with a big dish of ammonia and let it set sealed overnight, that will work too, but be careful of the fumes. Keep it away from cats!

Find a sturdy, non-reactive, heat resistant pan or container in which to completely submerge the mini-muffin pan. Submerge pan. Run tap water as hot as you can and cover mini-muffin pan with very hot water. Squirt in dishwasher detergent and gently agitate by sloshing mini-muffin pan up and down a few times. Let sit overnight. Should loosen baked on crud which can be gently wiped away with a good sponge. Repeat if necessary.

Note: cover the soaking pan with a cookie sheet or something to keep the cats away from it.

Oven cleaner works like a charm.

Any of the above! 

catwoman707 said:

 
Oven cleaner works like a charm.

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Yes, I had a ceramic dish that had baked on char around the top edge.  I soaked and scrubbed to no avail.  I was cleaning the oven and thought the worst I could do is ruin the dish.  I sprayed the oven cleaner on and put dish in garage for 10 minutes so the cats could not get to it.  Brought it in and it wiped right off!

That sticky yellow grease is pretty impossible to remove unless you scrub! And even then, it's hard.

Do you have a hand held steamer?  I've found that hot steam works really well.   You need to use a steamer, not the steam from a kettle or pot of boiling water.

I bought a hand held steamer especially for tasks such as that, and to clean the grout around my tub and sink.