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Burned-on food gunk is the last thing you want to face on a Sunday night after a particularly good lasagne or nut roast. When your scourers have turned black and the dishwasher won’t shift it, here’s what to do: forget washing up, just pop it outside overnight and let the slugs go to work. Slugs are equipped with 27,000 tiny teeth spaced along a rasping tonguelike appendage called a radula. It’s custom-made to get into small gaps and crevices and scrape off rich sources of food, like mould (or burned-on cheese bake). They really are specialists at this.