How to clean the hood in the kitchen - on your own experience

Cleaning the kitchen is a thankless task: you rub, wash - and so much effort goes into it. And I want to have strength left for hobbies, books, and so on. Therefore, one does not want to do such work as washing the hood from fat. And you feel that it will take a long time. But, as you know, it is necessary to wash and remove greasy deposits, otherwise your appliance ceases to perform its functions over time, and all unpleasant odors remain in the kitchen.

It turns out that you can easily clean the hood, and make it so that the next cleaning will not have to put so much effort. There are many different ways to clean a kitchen hood, both folk and chemical, but we liked one, which we tried. We start with the disassembly of the equipment.

Before we understand how to clean the hood in the kitchen, we must disassemble it. This presents no difficulty. Before degreasing the cooker hood:

1. We turn off the device.
2. We find the fixing latches (usually there are two of them), press the latches. Carefully, holding with one hand, take out the filters. In all hoods, the devices may differ, but in the bulk, the filter can be easily removed from the grooves.
3. Further actions already depend on the type of your hood. Before cleaning the hood from grease, read the instruction manual, or ask your husband. If nothing else needs to be removed: a pipe, an air filter, then our task is to clean the removed filters, and rinse and clean the inside of the hood with a sponge or a napkin.

Before cleaning the hood filter, we need to wash the body of the device itself. In order not to waste time, you can soak the grease filters in hot water for the time being. This can be done either in the sink by closing the drain with a plug, or in a metal pan. Fill with boiling water. Pour a little dishwashing detergent into the water, or sprinkle it with powder, such as Pemolux. Let the filters soak. So, how to wash grease from the hood housing?

Do not use metal sponges, otherwise you will scratch the case. Take a viscose or microfiber cloth and pour it generously with any dishwashing detergent or Anti-grease gel (for example, SANITA).

The product should be thick, concentrated!

Apply to the body and inside of the appliance, and leave for 5-10 minutes. Wipe after that. All dirt, grease, stains - everything goes away. Finally wipe with a dry cloth. Next: before washing the kitchen hood filter, you need to apply a layer of detergent on the body and inside. This is done in order to facilitate the process of future laundering for you.

On a dry cloth, drop a drop of concentrated dish detergent. We wipe the entire body, and inside the body too.

This layer serves as a barrier between dust, grease, and the surface itself. The next time you wash your device - you won't have to spend a lot of time - the whole cleaning will take a few minutes. In the future, you will also have to process the washed and dried filters.

So it's time to clean the hood grate, and the hood filter. Wash the grate in the same way as the body was washed. How to clean the filter? Our filters are soaked - it's time to take them on. Take a stiff brush and try to clean the filters with it. Didn't work? It doesn't matter, it means you need to take other measures. We put the filters back in the sink, and fall asleep abundantly with soda. Leave for a while, 20-30 minutes. Next - again a brush with detergent, three on all sides. Filters should be easier to clean after soaking.

If the yellowness remains, then it remains only to boil. We take a baking sheet, or a saucepan, pour boiling water, pour 2-3 tablespoons of soda, and put on fire. Boil for 5-7 minutes. Leave in this water until it cools completely. Then remove the remaining fat with a sponge or brush.

After the cleaned filter has become light and clean, apply a layer of detergent on top of its surface with a dry cloth.

As it dries, add the product drop by drop onto a napkin. We wipe the surface until the stains disappear. The easiest way is to wash the filters in the dishwasher by turning on the “very dirty dishes” mode. But, in the absence of a dishwasher, we try other options.

Folk remedies

There are many more simple means than washing grease, cleaning the grate, and kitchen hood filters.
Laundry soap

Laundry soap, especially the simplest, dark, 72% soap perfectly breaks down and removes grease from any problem surfaces. In order to process and clean the parts of the hood, grate half a bar of laundry soap. Pour soap into a saucepan, or a deep baking sheet, pour boiling water, lower what we need to clean. If it is impossible to boil, after 5 minutes of soaking, we take it out and start manual cleaning. For cleaning you will need a sponge and a scraper.

Vinegar

You can try cleaning the hood with vinegar or vinegar essence (dilute 1 part vinegar to 7 parts water). With a sponge dipped in vinegar, treat all surfaces of the hood, leave for 5-10 minutes, and wash off all dirt and grease with a sponge or napkin.

Salt

How to clean the hood from fat with salt? Very simple. We make a concentrated solution of coarse salt and water. Pour ¼ of a pack of salt into hot water, lower the parts for cleaning there. If the water has cooled down, you need to heat it up, but do not bring it to a boil.

soda and glue

A good way to clean metal surfaces, as well as forks, spoons, and yellowed pots. In this way, it is quite possible to wash the fat from the hood. We take 1 glass of soda ash, 2 tubes of stationery glue, and 1 bar of laundry soap. We rub the soap on a grater, pour everything into a saucepan, and boil for 10-15 minutes. The main thing: as soon as you take it out of the water while hot - with a brush or sponge, immediately remove the dirt and grease. If the water, and the filters to be cleaned, etc., cool down, then you will not remove the dirt.

After cleaning and processing with dry wipes with detergent, hoods in the kitchen, we assemble all the parts in the reverse order. Everything shines and sparkles clean! In conclusion, I would like to say that it is better not to use too aggressive means - this can have a bad effect on the hood, and reduce its service life.

The video shows how to clean the hood from grease.