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title: "Cleaning Viking Range Hood Filters Over an Open Burner"
description: "How to clean Viking range hood filters, baffle and mesh, how often over a professional open burner, and why a neglected hood ends up needing a motor."
url: "https://vikingmiami.support/blog/how-to-clean-viking-range-hood-filters/"
date_modified: "2026-08-21"
Category: "Maintenance & Prevention"
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# Cleaning Viking Range Hood Filters Over an Open Burner

## How to clean Viking range hood filters: two filters, nothing alike

**Baffle or mesh** filters catch grease on its way up. Every hood has them, they are washable, and they last the life of the appliance.

**Charcoal** filters absorb odor on the way back into the room, and only a hood that **recirculates** has one. It cannot be washed. Washing it destroys it, and a soaked charcoal filter does nothing at all afterwards.

## Why monthly here

An open-burner professional range is not the cooktop it replaced. It puts out more heat, it is used for more searing and frying, and it throws considerably more grease-laden air at the hood above it.

In this climate the hood is also moving humid, salt-carrying air across the same blower every day. The combination is what turns a hood into a motor job rather than a filter job — and the motor is protected entirely by a part that goes in the dishwasher.

## The part everybody skips

The **blower housing behind the filters**. Take a torch to it after the filters are out. Grease in there is grease that got past, and it is the material that eventually reaches the motor bearings.

A degreaser and a cloth, as far in as you can reach, once or twice a year. It is not pleasant work and it is the difference between a filter routine and a repair.

## Getting them back right

Baffles have a **direction**. They are shaped so air has to change direction sharply, which is what makes the grease drop out rather than carry on. Fitted backwards they still clip in and they work noticeably worse — and nobody ever finds out, because the hood still makes the right noise.

Photograph them in place before the first time.

## What this is preventing

A capacitor is inexpensive. A blower motor is not, and it is the part that grease reaches last and kills first. Filters are the cheapest maintenance in the kitchen and the hood is the appliance where that maintenance is most directly connected to what breaks.

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