How To Clean Range Hood Mesh Filter

How To Clean a Greasy Range Hood Filter

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When was the final fourth dimension yous peeked underneath your stove's hood and checked out the frazzle fan filters? If it's been awhile or you've, um, never done this, permit me warn you: it's not going to exist pretty. The purpose of a range hood filter is to collect grease, and so if it'due south doing its job correctly, it's going to await and experience, well, greasy.

Over time, the the filter may get so blocked with grease and ickiness that it loses its effectiveness, which is why it'southward important to make clean these filters periodically.

Thankfully, cleaning them isn't hard at all!

(Prototype credit: The Kitchn)

This tutorial shows how to clean the filter in your sink with just boiling water, baking soda, and a good de-greasing dish soap. (I prefer Dawn.) Some hood filters can actually be washed in the dishwasher, but depending on how long it's been since you've cleaned yours, I wouldn't recommend that without at to the lowest degree cleaning them this style first. (You don't want as well much grease to end up in your dishwasher!)

So, allow's de-grease those filters at present, shall we?

How To Clean a Greasy Range Hood Filter

What Y'all Demand

Very hot or boiling water
Degreasing dish soap (Dawn works very well)
Baking soda
Non-abrasive scrub brush
Paper towels or dish cloth

Instructions

Remove the filters from the hood: Nearly filters should easily slide or pop out of the underside of the hood. Mine had a metal loop I could catch to push the filter upwardly and slide it out.
Fill a sink or bucket with humid water: The hotter the water, the more effective. Depending on how hot you tin get the water from your tap, that might exist skilful enough. For me, I boiled h2o in my electrical tea kettle, and poured that into the sink.
Pour in baking soda and dish soap: Pour a good squirt of de-greasing dish lather and 1/iv cup baking soda into the hot water. Swish effectually with a castor (not your hand considering it'south too hot!) until the water is prissy and soapy.
Put greasy filters in h2o: Submerge your greasy exhaust fan filters into the water. Make sure they're completely covered.
Let them soak: Allow the filters to soak for x minutes.
Scrub the filters: Afterwards soaking, take a not-abrasive scrub brush and scrub the filters. Add more dish soap to your brush if required while you scrub.
Rinse and dry: Rinse the filters thoroughly in hot water and dry with a paper towel or clean cloth.
Supercede the filters and echo equally needed: Put the filters back into the hood, and repeat as needed! Cleaning the filters in one case a calendar month is a good maintenance strategy.

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Cambria was an editor for both Apartment Therapy and The Kitchn for eight years, from 2008 through 2016.