How To Clean your kitchen Chimney at home?

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Perhaps the most important appliance in your kitchen is the chimney. It does a fine job of evacuating all the smoke and vapors which would otherwise leave the kitchen grimy and smelly. But do you know that kitchen chimneys are mostly overlooked when it comes to cleaning? Due to the regular uses, even heavy-duty chimney filters get clogged up with dust and greasy materials. These oily substances need to be cleaned timely so that they do not damage the chimney’s motors, blades, and filters and allow it to function properly. For this, you have to do regular cleaning.

A professional kitchen chimney cleaning service may not be feasible every time. Hence it is important to know how to clean your kitchen chimney at home.

Thankfully there are some easy ways of kitchen chimney cleaning at home with the help of some readily available materials

Kitchen Chimney Cleaning Tips

Kitchen Chimney Cleaning Tips

While a kitchen chimney is necessary for modern-day living and lifestyle, regular cleaning is essential. If you want your kitchen chimney to work properly, keep in mind that you should clean the kitchen chimney from time to time. Also, regular care ensures that the kitchen chimney suction functions effectively and in its strongest form.

The regular cleaning of the chimney does not mean you have to dismantle all the parts of the chimney and require a help of a professional kitchen chimney cleaning service. You can easily do this on your own at home, like any other cleaning, with some cleaning agents readily available in your kitchen.

Here’s how to clean your kitchen chimney the easy way without having to shell too much on it.

1. Use Dishwasher liquid or Soap for Kitchen Chimney Cleaning

Dishwasher liquid or soap can easily clean the dirt settled on the filters.

  • Begin with taking out the filters from the chimney hood. Next, dip them in hot boiling water.
  • If you have a lemon kitchen dishwasher then add 2 spoons into the bucket, otherwise, you can use any other dishwasher gel. Now let the filters soak in it for 2 to 3 hours.
  • After this, you need to take the filters out of the bucket and clean them with a non-abrasive scrubber like scotch brite.
  • You will see that slowly all the dirt is getting removed. Now, rinse the filters with clean water.
  • Put them in the sun to dry and then place them back in the chimney hood.

2. Vinegar for Kitchen Chimney Cleaning at Home

Another readily available cleaning agent in our kitchen cupboard is vinegar. It is said that vinegar has acidic and mild abrasive properties that are tough on the oily-greasy stain and can easily clean the substance. Along with this, vinegar also has disinfectant properties. You can use this to clean your chimney’s filter, blades, panel, and hoods. Dip a paper towel in the vinegar solution and wipe the surfaces clean for a quick clan of the hood.

  • You need to dilute one-two cups of vinegar in hot boiling water for filters and meshes cleaning.
  • Once you have prepared the solution, take the filters out from the chimney and soak them in the solution.
  • Let the filters immerse into this solution for 1-2 hours.
  • Once you see dirt is getting loose, scrub the filters with a non-abrasive scrubber.
  • Next, wipe them with a wet cloth and let them dry completely before placing them back into the chimney.

3. Use Baking Soda to clean the kitchen chimney hood

Since baking soda has a gentle abrasive nature, it is commonly used for cleaning. You can also use it for cleaning your chimney. 

For cleaning the stains on the chimney hood:

  • Make a thick paste.
  • Add a few droplets of water or vinegar to 2-3 tablespoons of baking soda to make a paste.
  • Mix well till it turns into a paste.
  • Apply this paste to the stains and allow it to stay there for 5 minutes.

This helps the stains to come to lose. Remove the dirt with a moist cloth.

If you want to clean filters and meshes, you will have to make a solution of baking soda. Take a big tub that can take in filters and meshes. Fill it with hot water, and add two cups of vinegar, two to three tablespoons of baking soda, and salt. Mix the solution well. Put the filters and meshes into it for 2 hours. The dirt will soften. Remove this dirt with a scrubber and clean water. Keep them for drying. Upon drying, place them back into the chimney.

4. Paint Thinners for Cleaning Chimney Oil

Paint thinners contain organic solvents such as acetone, toluene, turpentine, and other mineral spirits that easily remove the tough stains and oily substances. Unlike other cleaning agents, thinners evaporate easily and get mixed with the air you end up inhaling. This might impact your health.

So, instead of cleaning the whole filter or mesh, it is better to use it only on the most stubborn grease lodged in hard-to-reach places such as crevices and folds. Use it as a last resort when no other cleaning agent works on the stain.

5. Caustic Soda for Removing Oils Stains from Chimney

The other alternative for kitchen chimney cleaning can be a caustic soda. It is also acidic to easily cut the grease or oil stains, like baking soda. Compared to other cleaning agents, it’s inexpensive.

  • For cleaning your chimney, you will have to mix caustic soda in hot water and turn it into a paste.
  • Apply this paste to any stain or grease substance on the exterior of your chimney and leave it for five-ten minutes, then wipe it with a clean wet cloth or paper.
  • If you want to clean the stains from filters, oil trays, or meshes, then sprinkle the caustic soda over the stain and pour hot water.
  • As soon as you pour the water, you will see some fumes. Let it settle and stay on the filters, oil tray, or mesh for two to three hours.
  • Once the stain, grim, or dirt gets softened, wipe it off with a clean wet cloth.
  • Dry the filter, tray, and meshes and put them back into the chimney.

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Conclusion

Kitchen chimney cleaning is not as difficult as you could have anticipated. It can be done effortlessly with just a few basic cleaning agents. It is recommended to clean the chimney once every 2-3 months.
So next time, try to clean your chimney at home on your own, rather than give your hard earn money to an expensive cleaning service. All it takes is some elbow grease and some underrated kitchen products to make your kitchen look sparkling.

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