One of the things on my shopping list today was PAM cooking spray. At my Kroger grocery I saw some “PAM Original Easy Cleanup”, in addition to just plain “PAM Original”. What’s not to like about easy cleanup? So I bought a can, even though it was a buck more expensive.

Back at home, I looked on Amazon to see reviews of it, but, oddly, couldn’t find it there. I wonder what makes it “easy cleanup”.

Haven’t tried it yet. Has anyone else used it?

It is the slogan. Huffers tell me it is the best.

Have never used the "easy cleanup" version. The original seems to work fine for me.

Pam sucks ,Barb rules

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I wonder what makes it “easy cleanup”.

Maybe it has the soap already built in.

I've never thought PAM was particularly difficult to clean up.

Maybe just new packaging? I didn't see any "easy clean up" version on their website.

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Pam sucks ,Barb rules

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That looks like my kitchen when I was a kid. Moms ALWAYS wore high heels when doing the dishes!@!!

Normal Pam has stuff in it besides oil that can leave a sticky, gunky residue.

I quit using Pam years ago. It left an after taste to the food in my opinion. There are many other options.

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Originally posted by maladat:
Normal Pam has stuff in it besides oil that can leave a sticky, gunky residue.

This. Over time, continued use of the original PAM leaves a sticky residue on pots & pans. I switched to a mister which I keep filled with extra virgin olive oil.

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Originally posted by Gibb:
Maybe just new packaging? I didn't see any "easy clean up" version on their website.

Re: “Maybe just new packaging?”

I now think that you’re probably right about that. Just new can art, with a new claim, to justify raising the price to that of their other varieties, e.g., PAM OLIVE OIL.

The PAM ORIGINAL EASY CLEANUP is on the PAM web site. Second from left in the first picture:

https://www.pamcookingspray.com/

Back in the day, long ago....

Some buddies went to a railroad salvage store and bought the worldly remains of a case of Pam. Some were damaged and leaked out. Others were still full and could be convinced to spray. So under the Jeep it went. The idea being to coat both the underside and topside of the jeep fenders with anti-stick.

Then into the muddy woods they went. Then a full day of fun. Then back out into the drizzle. But low and behold, all the other jeeps were well coated with sticky, gooey mud. But Dave and Louis had a jeep without hardly any mud. The Pam worked wonders and the mud that did cling then slid right off and on to the ground. Others had to use a mud stick to dig the mess off so they could turn their front wheels.. Not the Pammed jeep.

Afterwhich Pam became the choice of serious mudding folks. I assume the OP here stuck with cooking debris, not serious woods gunk.

Probably has more polymers added to it because idiots were spraying it onto their non-stick pans. I had a ex- who would use Pam for everything, her non-stick skillet felt like a fruit roll-up wrapper after so many uses; ended up having to show her how to use oil and butter for cooking. Her mother was domestically useless and willfully ignorant so, she had nothing to teach her daughter.

I only use Pam for grates used in roasting. Otherwise, the squirt bottle of olive oil near the stove gets used much more frequently.

^^^ racks are about the only use for that stuff. Only thing I hate worse than PAM is Karen.