Filters,???????????????

[Ron Musgraves]

Filters,

Can a filter be made that reduces the ducts from getting so bad?

 

[JohnB]

A filter does cut down on the plenum and ducting getting real dirty.. Mesh Filters used to work great but they were done away with by the NFPA... The regular baffle filters work good , but we are talking about cooking 10 to 15 hours or more a day for between 90 to 180 days.. Man thats alot of grease.. I think it would be a good idea for someone to come up with a better filter system, although it would cut down on the vent hood cleaning frequency which would be bad for the hood cleaning business...

 

[Ron Musgraves]

yeah, but if we want to save lives whats a few dollars lost in cleaning.

 

[dodsonish]

Baffle filters claim to catch 80% of air laden grease. Gaylord has a filter that is supposed to grab 90%+.

 

[Ron Musgraves]

great info again.

 

[JohnB]

JOSH when you say Gaylord Hood Filters are you talkin abou the filters like the gaylord hoods over the Burger King Broilers ... I know those filters catch alot of grease... They are a little hard to clean but they do a heck of a job, if they are positioned and hung right in the hood...

 

[dodsonish]

I was wrong about the brand...it is Greenheck, not Gaylord.

http://www.greenheck.com/pdf/kitchen/GreaseExtraction.pdf

 

[JohnB]

I also read a while back about greenheck has an exhaust fan with teflon coated blades that grease will not adhere to ...We checked on it one time for a customer and these things were high...

 

[Przrat]

I know a guy who has great baffle filters that dont allow restaurants to wait forever to get their hood cleaned. They cause excess grease accumulation to become very obvious in many ways.