How to clean chimney

Cleaning the kitchen is a time-consuming task, mostly when you are dealing with your kitchen chimney and microwave oven. In our Indian kitchens most of the food is made with lots of oil and spices. The smoke and steam produced from cooking makes the chimney filters and stove area greasy and sticky. The chimney should be cleaned twice or at least once in a month, this will make the chimney more effective and also looks good.

How to clean mesh and baffle filters in natural ways

For cleaning the chimney filters, first of all remove the filters from the hood. Mesh filters are aluminum thread made sheets. You can clean your filters in many different ways. Using chemicals, harsh soap or detergents will discolor the aluminum material. It’s better to clean in a natural way. I feel baffle filters are easier to clean than the mesh filters. Here we will discuss the all possible natural ways.

Clean chimney with dishwashing liquid

Firstly apply some dishwashing liquid (ex: Vim Lemon Dish wash Gel) to the filters. Take hot boiling water into a bucket or tub anything in which can immerse your filters and clean it. Be sure that the filters are completely immersed in the water. Now leave it for 1 to 2 hours. If you have a steel container in which you can immerse the filters then better to boil it for half an hour. Boiling will effectively, fastly removes grease than immersing in hot water. After removing it from water scrub it with non-abrasive scrubber like ‘Scotch-Brite Non Scratch Sponge

Clean chimney with paint thinner

Paint thinner is also a good choice to clean the oily and greasy materials. This is a quick option to clean your chimney filters as they don’t need too much time. Just soak a small piece of cloth in the thinner and scrub it on the filters. After cleaning the filters completely, wash it with water and dry it in the sunlight.