I boiled some in water with dawn soap.
For those who care about such details, I will only add that using hot water and Dawn, Joy or other strong oil/grease detergent will get hot steel perfectly clean and can expose the drying metal to oxidation. (I discovered this by slathering freshly honed, iron-sleeved cylinders with Joy- to remove the honing oil and grit- and rinsing them in hot water. As they are removed from the water, the heat drives the moisture away and a faint orange haze is immediate on the drying surfaces; you can actually watch the oxidation process.)