How to clean the hood from the fat at home?

Coming to visit one of your friends, you certainly do not pay much attention to cleanliness in every corner of their apartment, but if you come for the first time home, for example, to your girlfriend, you will pay attention to cleanliness, andPay special attention to the kitchen, including the hood in it. If it is clean, then your girlfriend knows how to clean the hood from the fat at home, and you probably think that she will be a good mistress of your house. But if she or you do not know how to clean the hood from the fat at home, then in this article we will teach you this so that everyone can maintain her working condition - and not in order to get married quickly, but just to make her ownlife is more comfortable.

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Why do I clean the hood?

Quite a strange question, especially if the hostess is asking it, is not it? Of course, the hood, which is covered with a layer of fat, and also stuck to it with dirt and dust, can not say anything good about you. Did you know that the cooker hood, where a filter, a grill, and a mesh for a long time no one has even tried to wash it off qualitatively from a layer of grease and dirt, works much worse?

In this case, all smells, evaporation, smoke without any obstacles, safely travel through the expanses of your apartment, tickle the nostrils and nerves of your favorite pets, and just loved ones.

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Preparation of

The process of cleaning the cooker hood begins with the preparation, more precisely - with its shutdown and disassembly. Before you begin to disassemble it, be sure to read the instructions for this hood.

After this, the preparatory work is carried out, strictly following a certain sequence:

• Removing the hood cover, which is located above the stove. To do this, click the latches, and pull the lid out of the slots.
• Remove the filter.
• Remove the pipe that goes from the hood to the vent, because it also needs to be cleaned from the fat layer.
• Remove the air filter.
• The entire hood also check for any contaminants.
  

Each stage of work must be followed by washing the desired part. Fat filters and pipes can be washed in the bathroom, where pre-soak the system elements in degreasing cleaning agent.

Important! As for the most air filters, not any of them can be cleaned - see the instructions that come with the hood for the relevant information.

Do not forget that the surface of the hood should also be washed off from a thick layer of fat. There is nothing special - use the standard detergent and kitchen sponge:

1. Dilute in water, in a 1: 4 ratio.
2. In the prepared solution, moisten your sponge, and then wipe off all contaminated surfaces.
3. Dry the surface to be cleaned at the end, so that there are no any divorces.

But here with cleaning the filter itself you can experiment - there are a lot of methods for cleaning it.

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Choose the method, and then proceed to cleaning

Washing the hood causes the difficulty in choosing the tool used. What remedy will you need to effectively wash the layers of fat? Consider the most popular of them.

Oily Deodorant for Utensils

We use an ordinary dishwashing fat-dissolving agent to clean the extract from fat at home. Soak your filter in this tool for 10-15 minutes, carefully rub it with a sponge or brush, then pour boiling water.

Important! Note that the effect will only be provided if the contamination is fresh.

Soda

You can also clean the filter with a baking soda solution. Perhaps this is the simplest, most effective, and also the safest way to clean the hood thoroughly:

1. Take the largest pot of those that you have and boil water in it.
2. Take soda: for a large pot, there will be enough 1 cup, for an average pot size - half a glass.
3. After this, slowly and gradually using a tablespoon begin to pour in soda.
4. When all of the soda is dissolved, place the filter grate in a saucepan and boil for 30-40 minutes until the dirt begins to drift off.
5. If the capacity you take is small, then sweep the procedure alternately on both sides, turning the filter grille.
6. After completion of the procedure, wash the pan itself from contamination, but do not tighten with it.
   

Soap

It is best to use the old kind brown 72% soap. So, to clean the extract from the fat with this remedy:

1. Take half the piece of laundry soap, a common grater and 2.5 liters of hot water.
2. Finely chop the soap bar so that it can easily be dissolved by throwing it into hot water.
3. In the resulting solution, wet the sponge and wipe all the surfaces of the hood, as well as the filter itself.
4. In order to remove old dirt, use a metal scraper.

Vinegar product

Please note that this working solution is prepared on the basis of very caustic concentrated acetic acid, which in itself is not safe. Therefore, in order to protect yourself, be sure to use rubber gloves.

The cleaning process is carried out as follows:

1. Wipe the rag in acid and wipe it with the entire contaminated surface, abundantly moistening the most persistent accumulations of dirt.
2. Vinegar soak for 7 minutes, and with strong soiling - up to 12 minutes.
3. For old dirt, use not diluted acid, and for the spots just emerging, the solution with water, the proportion 1: 2, is perfect.

Important! To clean the hood from the fat at home, of course, you can take and ordinary table vinegar, which is sure to find in every home. But its efficiency will be somewhat lower, therefore, the quantity and time of exposure, and, most likely, the number of processing cycles, will need more.

Lemon juice

For this option:

1. Take 1-2 lemon fruit, peel and cut into two halves.
2. Pulp with a dirty surface of the hood.
3. The surface that you have covered with lemon juice must stand up for interaction with the contaminants for 5-10 minutes.
4. All wipe off with a damp soft cloth.
5. In case of severe contamination, repeat the whole procedure 2-3 times more.

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Radical methods for cleaning the extract

There are also radical methods than cleaning the hood, but experts do not advise to use them very often, a maximum of 1-2 times during the entire operation of the hood. In the event that the filter has not been cleaned for a long time, the fat is frozen, and also hammered the filter holes, this method will help you out as never before.

To do this:

1. Take a cleaner to clean the drainpipes, and also you need a suitable container, for example, a stainless steel sink.
2. Prepare the product according to the instructions on the packaging for this product.
3. Pour into the closed sink, put on the gloves and place the filter in the preparation you have prepared.
4. Immediately there will be a reaction, after which the grate several times rinse under running water.

Important! Do not forget that this method uses alkali, which is quite aggressive to various metal products.

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Why is the hood so sticky?

The grease grinder lattice is incredibly simple in its design and in its operating principle. A small steel or aluminum mesh, which is laid in several layers, does not give the slightest chance of passing the air directly. He needs to get around all obstacles, from the passage of these obstacles, drops of liquid, fat, and smoke particles in any case, by inertia, collide with the metal.

First of all, the fat settles on the surface of the filter itself, steam is added to it, drops of liquid, all other waste - debris and dust with smoke already adhere to the fat film.

Based on the fact that the extractor is located directly above the plate, all hot air enters it, under the influence of temperatures, the fat layer and all inclusions turn into a solid crust. If you do not clean the hood from the fat in time, it will be a problem for you, because the frozen mass can not just be cleaned and the base of the grill is not damaged.

We hope that all the methods suggested in this article, how to clean the hood from the fat at home, will help you. Remember, not so important is the thoughtfulness of design and the availability of all the latest innovations in technology, how much order and cleanliness of the kitchen. We wish that your home is always well-groomed, beautiful and cozy!