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If you regularly cook at home, you surely turn on the range hood, which can extract unpleasant odors. With regular use, however, grease and other dirt sticks to the hood. And how to remove it if you don’t have the option to put the filters and other parts in the dishwasher? We’ll advise you on several proven methods and procedures.
Using oil
It may seem strange to clean grease with oil, but this method really works. And quite well. All you need is vegetable oil, to which you add a little lemon juice. Then apply the oil to a cloth and use it to wipe the dirty parts of the range hood. Then let it sit for a few minutes and finally wipe with warm water and dish soap and then finish by rinsing with clean water. The hood should be like new after this procedure, without traces of grease.
Using a degreaser
With this method you need to disassemble the dirty parts of the hood and place them in a container which you fill with hot water mixed with a degreaser. This can be a special product, or it can just be ordinary dish soap. Let the mixture sit for about half an hour and then wipe the hood parts with a cloth. Afterwards rinse them with clean water and let them dry. This method should also be fairly effective on dirt.
Using vinegar
Vinegar will be useful not only for cooking or for removing limescale from a kettle, it will also come in handy for cleaning the range hood. Here too the goal is to create a mixture of vinegar and hot water. Either a 1:1 mixture which you will use to wipe the hood, or increase the proportion of water and immerse the hood parts in the mixture for several tens of minutes. Then remove them, rinse with cold water and let them dry.
Vinegar, however, has one more alternative use. Put it in a pot, bring it to a boil and turn on the range hood. It will draw in the vinegar vapors, which will dissolve the dirt. You simply remove them with a paper towel and suddenly the filters and other parts will be like new again. This method is also worth trying.
