Martha's Homekeeping Handbook advises that these filters should be cleaned monthly. I had the hood installed nearly six years ago, and have never done this task, or even thought of doing this task.
To be fair to myself, I don't use the ventilation hood as much as I should, preferring instead to allow cooking smoke and odors to waft throughout our home. So let's say I use the hood five days per month, out of a potential 30 days. Based on those figures, it would surely be wrong to say that I had missed 72 monthly ventilation hood cleanings. Rather, dividing 72 by my truly disproportional disuse of the hood, perhaps I am down to 12 missed cleanings. And I haven't had the hood for six whole years yet! So maybe it can be considered only 11 missed cleanings. And frankly, I travel a lot -- perhaps an entire month in total each year -- so that would reduce the missed cleanings to maybe only ten. Ten is a nice round, clean number. How bad could it be?
I removed the filters a few minutes ago, expecting to be able to quickly rinse them under running water and then replace them. But they were a wee bit sticky, and the blackish gunk in them didn't seem to be coming off at all.
So now I'm soaking them in a sink with hot water and dishwashing liquid, as Martha suggests. I think I may have to leave them there for a few weeks.
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