How to Clean Range Hood Filter?
Peeping is surely not a good habit but peeping your range hood from the gas stove at a few time intervals is indeed important. You might be thinking about why it’s important? The reason behind the peeping kitchen hood is to ensure the cleanliness and work efficiency of the range hood filter.
Range hoods are an important part of a kitchen because they help in keeping the kitchen cool, clean, odor-free, pleasant, safe, and hygienic. The cooking process emits smoke, excess steam, grease, fumes, heat and unpleasant odor that gets created owing to a mixture of all these gets exhausted through the range hood filter attached in the range hood above the gas stove. All these particles get deposited on the surface of the kitchen hood filter resulting in the deposition of grease that affects its work efficiency.
If you ever feel like that your kitchen hood is not working properly and it is not exhausting the smoke, steam, heat, and odor like before then first of all you must check your kitchen hood filter. If it is excessively greasy owing to its great work efficiency then you should first of all wash and clean the range hood filter.
The cleaning process of the range hood filter is easy and doesn’t require mastery for it, it is a simple cleaning process like other household works. If your kitchen hood doesn’t work properly after cleaning the range hood filter either you need to change your range hood or consult a technician.
Some many ways and methods can be followed to clean the range hood filter.
How to Clean Range Hood Filter?
Cleaning the kitchen hood filter doesn’t require any rocket science, it’s easy to be done. You will just require a few things to get your kitchen hood filter grease-free.
To clean your kitchen hood filter you will need,
- Bucket/Sink
- Hot water
- Baking Soda
- Dish Soap
- Brush or Scrubber
First of all, you need to remove the filter from the kitchen hood. You might be thinking about how to remove the filter from the kitchen hood? In most of the hoods, it’s very easy to pull out the filter either by pushing upward or by sliding.
Now, pour hot boiled water either into a sink or bucket or any other vessel that can carry a filter in it.
After adding hot water add a sufficient amount of baking soda and dish soap into it and twirl the water with a brush or any other material until baking soda and dish soap get mixed well with hot water until the water becomes soapy.
Now put the greasy range filter into it for a few minutes and after that scrub it with a brush or scourer to clean the mess deposited on the range hood filter. Make sure that all the holes in the filter get cleaned well and evenly with soap water and wash away all the greasy particles that are deposited on the filter surface.
After cleaning it with soapy water, run simple clean water over the filter to wash it. Now you can use a cotton cloth or kitchen napkin to dry and clean the range hood filter.
Keep it for a while to get properly dry either on a kitchen platform or in the open air to get some solar heat.
Now after getting dried properly your shiny and clean kitchen hood filter is ready to get fit in the range hood once again to perform at the optimum efficiency to give you a clean, smoke-free, and odorless pleasant kitchen.
It’s very important to keep on cleaning your kitchen hood filter at a few intervals as kitchen range hoods are frequently working. It’s very important to maintain the kitchen hood properly for its efficient and effective working as well as longevity of the life span of your range hood.