I scrape the grease out if the pan is still warm unless I use it for something else. Sometimes the cat's tongue helps too, it's like sandpaper. Gloves can help but I am allergic to the powder inside, most of the detergent too. The dirty things I let soak.

They say lemon helps but lemon is way too expensive. I once tried it no result.

With us electricity is not the most expensive but the wires and all the nonsense, tax over tax. A bill of 1400 euros/year is about 200 use of dlectricity :(