Greasy Range Hood? The $1.50 Filipino No-Scrub Trick

Reach up to the top of your range hood and drag one finger across it. That yellow-brown film that never wipes off is not grease anymore, and it was never your scrubbing. In this one I show you what that film really is: how the heat from frying and the plain oxygen in the air turned your cooking oil into a hard varnish, the same reaction that seasons a cast-iron kawali, which is why soap slides right off it. Then we lift it off all three places it hides, the aluminum hood filter, the tops of your cabinets, and the hood itself, with hot water, baking soda, and a little time, not a fifteen-dollar bottle. I also show you the two things that quietly ruin an aluminum filter, and three small habits that keep the grease from ever coming back. New videos every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. If you keep a kitchen that fries, come sit with me: https://www.youtube.com/@LolaTessCleans Sources for this one: the chemistry of oil hardening into a solid coating (Sheryl Canter, on cast-iron seasoning), the dirty kitchen, or kusinang labas (Wikipedia), aluminum care for range-hood filters (Futuro Futuro), and the melting range of lard (USP).