Kitchen Exhaust Hood Cleaners Spill the Dirty Details
As a professional hood cleaning service we see the best and the worst in restaurant commercial kitchens. The following are a few of our favorites, things only we see when commercial hood cleaning.
Is the a lizard or a mouse?
One of our hood cleaning technicians found a drowned lizard in the grease trough of this commercial kitchens while performing a routine hood cleaning.
Is this a commercial kitchen or dump?
This, unfortunately, is common in many national chain fast food commercial kitchens. The kitchen exhaust hood is to the right out of the picture. The kitchen hood cleaning service techs had to plow through trash and garbage before beginning the exhaust hood cleaning.
Petrified turd or… what?
Commercial kitchen hood cleaning included the roof fan and roof ducts. This is a grease containment box, part of the kitchen hood system, that has been forgotten and abused. That brown looking thing should be a white or tan grease absorbent sock.
Burnt carbonized grease
The hood cleaning techs found this in the grease trough. Every commercial kitchen cleaning should include the grease trough as part of the commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning.
Busted Hinge
The “L” shaped part hanging off of the kitchen hood exhaust fan is a broken hinge. Hood cleaning technicians rely on the commercial kitchen owner to maintain all aspects of the commercial kitchen hood so they can provide a safe and thorough commercial kitchen exhaust hood cleaning service.
More Flying Donkeys Above Commercial Kitchens
This is yet another forgotten grease sock that the cleaning service guys found on the roof. Note also that the grease box is not even installed on the commercial kitchen hood roof fan.
Dirty Colonoscopy Pic r
Here is a kitchen exhaust system in dire need of hood cleaning service. This is an offset in a kitchen hood duct found when performing a deep commercial kitchen cleaning service. We pulled about 23 gallons of grease from this horizontal duct during the commercial kitchen cleaning.
Commercial Kitchen Roof Fan
This was a new commercial kitchen hood cleaning customer’s roof fan. It was so filled with grease and debris burnt oil was oozing from the seams and flowing down the roof.
Fry Station or Dumpster Diving
Fry station. The hood cleaning services team pulls any rolling equipment away from the walls to properly clean the hood. Notice the coagulated orange grease that dripped from the kitchen hood back into the fryer and overflowed onto the floor. The floor is covered with paper wrappers, grease and fries. Hood cleaning services do not include equipment or floors that is part of daily staff housekeeping and hygiene.
Looks Like a Cartoon
Commercial kitchen exhausts pull all grease laden vapors, smoke and steam away from the kitchen. We find this colorful build up on kitchen using oils with high sugar content cooking at high temperatures. Hood cleaning technicians have to find the fun in all the nasty.
Another Overflowing Trough Story
New customer hired us for commercial kitchen cleaning service. This was their kitchen hood trough, the part that drains the filters. Regular kitchen hood cleaning services will keep this open so the grease can flow into the grease cup. Now that we took over this account they won’t have any problems.
What a Story
These two pics go together. The close up is a roof fan filled with grease and debris to the point that it’s overflowing like a full diaper. The second pic is the same fan. Notice the grease containment box is not filled meaning the intake is clogged causing the leak from the backside of the fan and onto the roof. The roof is damaged beyond repair. Kitchen exhaust system cleaning does not include roof deck cleaning.
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