Replacing kitchen grease filters regularly is essential for a clean, safe, and efficient kitchen environment.
How Often Should I Replace Grease Filters?
The standard recommendation is to check and clean metal mesh filters every 1-3 months and replace charcoal filters every 6-7 months, depending on how frequently you cook. Ideally order 4 at a tme and replace each quarter. This will ensure a clean efficient and safe environment.
Health and Hygiene
Excessive grease build-up can promote the growth of bacteria and mould, which may create a dangerous to health cooking environment. Regularly replacing filters helps maintain better hygiene in the kitchen.
Fire Prevention
Grease filters trap grease particles from the air. Over time, these filters can become saturated with grease, creating a fire hazard. A spark or intense heat could ignite the built-up grease, leading to a potentially dangerous kitchen fire.
Improved Air Quality
Grease filters also capture other airborne particles, which prevents them from circulating back into the kitchen. When filters are clogged, they lose effectiveness, allowing odours, smoke, and contaminants to linger in the air.
Replacing grease filters, baffle filters and carbon filters keeps your restaurant kitchen safe, fresh and more efficient!
This is an example of what is being extracted from a restaurant kitchen. Without regular replacement this will build up in the extractor housing as well creating a serious fire risk, once alight the fires are difficult to access externally especially on multistory buildings.
