Grease surrounds us, it penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together. No, wait—that’s The Force. But grease is everywhere. It’s in our galley, our grill, our engine rooms—not to mention our garages and motor equipment at home. While ordinary boat soap can help loosen surface grease, there comes a point when you need a degreaser, which, as the name implies, is a

An intrepid tester bastes the fiberglass test panels in grease and grime.

cleaner specifically tasked with removing grease.

When a reader mentioned his upcoming plans to clean his grimy engine pan liner this winter, we checked our files and what was on the market. Finding two shelves of degreasers at our hardware store, and no recent data of our own,…