The residential exhaust hood is an essential kitchen appliance that keeps the kitchen environment ideal for work. The exhaust hood sucks all grease, oil, smoke, and odors produced while cooking.
In simple terms, it extracts all smoke and removes it out of the kitchen, and drastically improves the kitchen air quality. If the exhaust hood remains uncleaned for a longer time, plenty of grease, oil, and smoke will be accumulated on the exhaust hood. It causes smoke blockage at one stage, resulting in a smelly kitchen environment. So, regular exhaust hood cleaning is a must.
In case you are not a frequent chef or don't often cook, seasonal cleaning will be enough. However, if your kitchen is quite busier, then regularly check for grease accumulation and clean it whenever you find excessive grease on the exhaust hood.
Tips for cleaning your exhaust hood:
You will require all necessary equipment, tools, and cleaning solutions near you. These essential elements include Boiling water, baking soda, gloves, vinegar, degreasing soap, scrubbing brush, dust brush cleaner, kitchen towel or dishcloth.
- Eliminate layer of dust- Start your task with dusting. For this task, use dust brush cleaner to remove all dry dust particles from the hood surface. The dust brush cleaner can easily reach the narrow spaces, corners, and outer edges of the exhaust hood to remove the dust particles.
- Wipe the exterior surface of the exhaust hood- The exhaust hood exterior captures the dust, dirt, and mud from the outside environment. All you have to do is mix soap with warm water. And then rub the exterior surface with it. For the shinier surface, use the kitchen towel to wipe out the dirt from the exterior surface.
- Remove the strains that appear under the hood- This is where you need to be very careful as you quite closer to its electrical components. Firstly, wear the gloves and then remove the exhaust filters. Prepare a solution from baking soda and water. Now, soak the scrub brush in the liquidized soap and scrub the hood's inner surface.
- Clean the exhaust filter- Franking speaking, exhaust filters collect a massive amount of grease, and if it is not cleaned, it blocks the smoke and degrades kitchen air quality. So, wipe off all grease stuck in your filter with a scrubby sponge. Then soak the filter into a water-filled tub for the next 20 minutes. Rub the filter with a scrub brush after soaking it into a mixture of 1/4th baking soda and water. Rinse the filter again with warm water and dry for some time. Eventually, spray a vinegar solution on the filter and clean it with the towel.
Check the vent or duck- The vent is a long pipe installed right above the cooking range, which helps to extract all strong odors and smoke of the kitchen area. It is very difficult to clean the long vent by yourself. Just take a flashlight, remove the vent cap, and check the vent for debris. If you find any debris, call the residential exhaust hood cleaning company. A team of professionals equipped with all required equipment, tools, and cleaning solutions will come to your place and effectively clean your entire exhaust hood.