S/O How often do you clean your range hood fan?

I haven't, I rarely cook anymore and rarely anything fried. How do you clean it? What do you use, I mean? DS just moved back in and he's already fried up a few pork chops and got grease everywhere.

I remember trying to clean that thing in my last house when I cooked every day. It was never clean enough to my liking.

Then how often do you clean the downdraft vent filter? 

You don't have any method of exhaust for your cooktop? Interesting. I don't think that's allowed by code here. 

both times we remodeled our kitchen over the last 20 years we were told it was required by code as well.

I used to clean my entire hood every few months. Now my house cleaner cleans it every week (or whenever they come).

I don't have anything either.  I thought it would be a problem when we built the house but there was no code specifying it.  I never used the hood in my previous home and I didn't want anything over the island and didn't see any sense in having a down draft vent.  I cook almost every day.

I clean mine once a month. I bought a Bissell hot shot steamer and it’s the best purchase I have ever made (next to my vacuum sealer)

My what?

Do I have to clean it if I don’t use it?

I cook every day, but very rarely use the range hood fan - most of what I cook on the stove top is in water or is stirfried (or scrambled eggs sometimes).  We almost never have shallow fried food and never have deep fried.

Your baffles aren’t dishwasher safe? That’s one of their biggest pros… they’re way easier to clean than a mesh filter.

I throw mine in the dishwasher a couple of times a year.

This house didn’t have a vent hood in the kitchen, and the ceiling above the island was *nasty.* (The rest of the house was immaculate… like, my home inspector actually commented on how clean it was.) We remodeled, of course, and I would never not have one.

Beats me.  I don't even have a ceiling fan.  Nor do the other people I know without a hood.  We do all have old houses, though, and they are built specifically meant to breathe.  And in each case they've been left to do that, so perhaps that helps?  

How does your ceiling fan look? Mine runs all summer on low. When I shut it off for winter - - it is scary! LOL. The blades are a bit furry on the edges.

I don't have a 'real' hood so to speak. I have an exhaust fan that has filters, but it does not have duct work that takes it anywhere. I try to turn on the fan when I am cooking, just to start the draft up into the filters. They are stainless steel mesh filters that I can take out and wash easily. I pop them in the dishwasher every so often, when I have room.

My house is almost 100 years old, so there is no ductwork to have a real hood. I had nothing at all when we moved in, but I had the filter type one put in when I got new cabinets about 20 years ago.

It does help, but I still get kitchen grease type film - especially on that ceiling fan, since it is spinning all the time and pulling stuff towards it.

Loads of fun cleaning that fan - yuck. I have to use de-greaser (LA Awesome!) and get it wiped down. But ick. It's nasty!

I cook a lot. A LOT! I do make loads of burgers and browned hamburger. I do try to use a spatter screen and turn that exhaust fan on - but it's in the air.

I cook bacon every week, for the week. But I do that in the oven.

You're supposed to clean it?? haha!! just kidding.