How to clean kitchen exhaust fan grease

WHAT YOU NEED TO CLEAN KITCHEN EXHAUST

• Very hot or even boiling water
• Degreasing dish soap
• Baking soda
• Non-abrasive scrub brush
• Paper towels or dishcloth

Kitchen hood cleaning

INSTRUCTIONS

• You will have to remove the filters from the hood. Most of these filters should easily slide or pop out of the underside of the hood. Some of them even have a metal loop that can be grabbed to push the filter up and slide it out.
• After removing the filters you will have to fill a sink or bucket with boiling water. The hotter the water, the more effective it would be. It all depends on how hot you can get the water from your tap, that might be good enough.
• Pour in baking soda and dish soap. You can pour a good squirt of de-greasing dish soap and 1/4 cup baking soda into the hot water. You will have to swish around with a brush try not to use your hands for this purpose because it’s too hot. Until the water is nice and soapy.
• After that, you will have to put greasy filters in the water. Soak your greasy exhaust fan filters into the water. Make sure they are completely covered.
• Let them soak for enough time and allow the filters to soak for 10 minutes.
• Scrub the filters properly. After soaking, take a non-abrasive scrub brush and scrub the filters. You can add more dish soap to your brush if required while you scrub.
• Rinse and dry in a good and proper way. You can rinse the filters thoroughly in hot water and dry them with a paper towel or clean cloth.
• In the end, you will have to replace the filters and repeat them as needed. You must put the filters back into the hood and repeat as needed.

Cleaning the filters once a month would be a good maintenance strategy.