A longtime Food & Wine Test Kitchen pro spills the tea on cleaning stubborn cooking stains, from baked-on roasting pan crud to scuffed-up cookie sheets. Plus, the most bizarre, ridiculous, and ...

Now I'd consider cleaning while you're at the unattended/lightly watched phase of cooking to not be clean-as-you-go but cleaning when you're done. Sure, you'll still have one or two things to clean up ...