If you have been pricing a kitchen degreaser, a heavy-duty oven cleaner for baked-on grease, or even a professional house cleaning service because your cabinets feel sticky and your range hood looks lacquered in old cooking oil, stop. The highest-CPC searches in this niche — deep house cleaning, kitchen hood cleaning, commercial degreaser, vent hood cleaning, and best oven cleaner — exist because grease is expensive to outsource and annoying to live with. Most of that baked-on film does not need a $20 bottle or a same-day maid. It needs a grease-cutting dish soap that already sits next to your sink.

The $1 kitchen hack is this: a few drops of a real degreasing dish soap (Dawn Ultra or an equivalent grease-cutting formula) in hot water, applied with a barely damp microfiber cloth, then rinsed and dried. On stubborn spots, add a pinch of baking soda. That is the entire “product.” It is the same chemistry restaurants use to strip fat off plates — surfactants that grab oil so water can lift it — just used on the surfaces the oil landed on first.

This is not a cute CleanTok trick that fails on real kitchens. Editors at The Kitchn tested multiple cabinet methods and ranked warm water plus Dawn as the winner for greasy fronts. Pro cleaners say the same thing for stovetops, hoods, and cabinet undersides. You are not inventing a cleaner. You are using the cheapest commercial-grade grease cutter you already own.

Why kitchen grease wins against “regular” cleaners

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