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Running a restaurant or commercial kitchen can sometimes be a grueling task. From the actual kitchen and food aspect of the business to handling the financial aspects of running a business, it can be hard to find ways to keep costs down. To help keep costs down business owners will often find cheaper replacements for temporary items that need to be replaced every few months, and one item we see in particular that gets added to the cheap replacement list are exhaust hood filters. While it may seem like an easy choice just to throw a cheap filter on your exhaust unit it could actually wind up costing you more money in the end.

What you get when you buy a cheap exhaust hood filter is poor quality. But why is this significant? If your hood filter does not properly do it’s job you could be putting your kitchen, staff, and equipment at risk. One of the main features of hood filters is preventing kitchen fires. Kitchen fires typically originate under the exhaust hood, and hood filters help to prevent a fire or a spark from being pulled through the exhaust system. A quality hood filter will be properly tested to stop grease fires from spreading, and as well as preventing sparks from igniting any grease buildup that may be within your system’s ductwork. If you are using a cheap hood filter you are put at risk on several fronts. A cheap hood filter may not be properly keeping grease from forming in your ductwork which puts you at a huge fire risk. If the cheap filter doesn’t keep out a potential fire or spark from benea...