With the help of a single glass of this ingredient, you can restore the shine of your range hood. Let’s see together how this is done.

Hood cleaning

The kitchen hood is a necessary device for the elimination of vapors, fumes and odors that are released during the cooking of food. Its use ensures that the ambient air can always be kept clean and free of pollutants. In fact, its function is to suck up all the smoke created during cooking. There are two types of hoods: there is the extractor hood and there is the filter hood. The extractor hood expels the sucked air into the kitchen through a duct that reaches the outside. The filter system sucks up all the fumes released, purifies them by filtering them and reintroduces them into the kitchen environment.

How often does it happen that after grilling something, your home is filled with strong, lingering odors? This happens very often and is a very annoying condition. This happens because the hood has not been activated or because it has not been cleaned properly. If it is not cleaned constantly, the suction capacity is seriously compromised. Therefore, it is necessary to commit to its cleaning and maintenance so that it is always efficient.

One glass is enough and your hood will thank you

Coming home in the evening after long hours of work and realizing that the house smells like roast meat at lunch: it’s certainly not the best welcome. We rush to open all the windows in the house, and in addition to letting in frost, the smells will not disappear in a short time, quite the opposite. If you’re wondering why you still smell this smell despite using the hood, the answer is: your appliance is in dire need of a deep cleaning. When the hood is clean, air can be sucked in and filtered much more easily. When it is dirty, the passage of fumes is blocked, making it difficult to expel them.

Dirty hood

If you intend to finally dedicate yourself to cleaning after months and months of neglect, we have the most effective and fastest solution for you. It will need to be cleaned both internally and externally, but before proceeding, make sure to unplug it. Cleaning the outside of the hood will be much easier: equip yourself with a cloth and a good degreaser. The trickiest part is the internal cleaning. Let’s see how it’s done.

Hood cleaning

Deep cleaning the hood: use this ingredient and it will shine again

If a degreaser is enough for the outside of the hood, for the inside you will need something more powerful. First, you will need to disassemble the hood structure: there is a lid that contains the filters. The filters should be removed from the lid, so that you can clean the lid thoroughly by immersing it in an extraordinary solution provided for this purpose: water and vinegar. Generously fill a fairly large container with water and a glass of vinegar and dip the lid in. Let it soak for half an hour and after thirty minutes wipe it with a cloth: everything will come off, even the most stubborn dirt.

Vinegar is an ingredient that lends itself very well to the home, its use can work miracles in the most varied situations. However, you can perform the same procedure with filters: the important thing is to make sure that all grease and residue are gone. Only in this way can the hood become fully functional again.