On Amazon replacement filters are less than $15 for 4. I am not a rich person by any means. But $15 a year vs cleaning the damn things...I'm all in for the spend.

This is a good method if you have a fairly small filter like you do. Mine is too large to fit into even a jumbo frying pan. It's even too big to fit into the sink. I ended up soaking it in a large plastic tub, in hot soapy water with bleach added to break up the grease. A good rinsing and it was good to go.

@@rosaleesantamaria7673why put more junk in the landfill? This is a very easy method and effortless action to mitigate garbage.

1. Your dishwasher will clean it thoroughly, even with just hot tap water and no detergent. I know this from experience. Part of the dishwasher's magic is mixing the oils in the water, and yes, the water does actually absorb the oil a bit. The reason that this doesn't happen with food, is that we don't stand there and blend it for 20-40 minutes. If you put detergent in there, then it is even better. If you clean the filters often, like every week or month, or just after heavy use, then you'll not need to worry about clogging, because there is too little each time. The other part of the dishwasher's magic is letting the oil sit at the top of the water until it gets absorbed or mixed with detergent. This allows the water to sucked from the bottom and sprayed above. This cycle traps the oils at the top of the pool of water. 2. A lot of oil/grease on its own will clog, or at least start to accumulate, but detergent handles that just fine. As proof, place an oily filter or dish in the dishwasher as normal, but be sure to add a prewash with no detergent. After the prewash has been running for about 2-5 minutes with warm water, pause the program, then let the water stop dripping, then open the dishwasher, and then run your finger over various surfaces. You'll see that they are squeaky. At this point, everything is filthy, but it is squeaky, which means that the oils are not a problem.

​@@eugenetswong No part of the dishwashers magic is dissolving the oils, it's closer to emulsifying them but another part is that the dishwasher detergents have high ph that will dissolve aluminum, and that's what the filter is made of. It won't dissolve the filter in one wash cycle, but it will take a bit more of the anodized off each time, and then the deterioration will be faster.

No you didn’t.

@@juelz4516 🤷‍♀

haha

I hope they weren't aluminium like mine are!

Thank you for sharing your trick as well!

You're not kidding. I'll do this.

Ha ha ha ...remember ...they are the ones that never clean ....yakkkkkkk

So true! Thanks for bringing positive vibes to KZfaq.

Because people are miserable 😂😂😂

. . . after he was so nice to take the time to make this video.

Sorry not sorry , people make more work for themselves , all you have to do is put it in the dishwasher. These men on here just like to hear themselves talk

What triggered my journey to clean mine was cooking salmon. We cleaned everything at least four times before realizing the oils from the fish had penetrated the filter.

Do I have to dissolve the Oxiclean powder completely ? Mine does not completely dissolve in hot water. It leaves a residue.

Let me know how it turns out!

Great to hear!

It worked. Thanks for the tip! All 3 baffle filters are clean.

Are they even dishwasher safe?

@@TheGreenbutsad yes

I owned an apartment building. Believe me, tenants never clean these filters.

@@TheGreenbutsad no, the dishwasher detergent eats up aluminium slowly but surely.

Thierry Coton That's why you make sure you buy a quality extractor with stainless steel filters.

The electronic spy is not your friend.

I just thought it and didn’t say anything and it popped up 👀👀

Your phone heard it that's why it popped up in your suggestion. The phones have a built in spy, I swear. Lol. Does to me all the time.

@@rashidanjackson happens to me too on many things, just thinking about it, they trigger the ads.

@travelingtrex has a video on cleaning aluminum pans too. Think he uses Barkeepers Friend.

thanks! I've spent hours bent over my bathtub trying to clean them but this sounds much easier

Thank you.

Then ask your neighbour

@@walterrudich2175 I live in an APARTMENT ya goof! lmao... u really think one apt has a dishwasher and not another?

@@emm_bee 😃😃😃

Oven cleaner often contains lye with is rather caustic (corrosive)... It does not "play well" with aluminum...

Try soaking them in coke. Then wash with dawn dish soap.

So sorry!

I do the exact same thing with the racks in my oven, but I spray them with oven cleaner first before putting them in the washer. They come out like new!

Not sure if that's a good idea for your dishwasher pipes for drainage long term...could get clogged and would be costly plumbing repair.

@@danielcirino4533 I bet he pours this pan of greasy water down the drain.

Dawn is a strong dishwash liquid & this is a great idea!

Once I did that and it turned out dark , lost its shine and I realized it is not dishwasher safe .

Literally every hood filter has a "do not put in the dishwasher" in the instructions lol

​@@yankis.Maybe all the ones you've owned but mine are dishwasher safe.