powerful kitchen extra hood for Indian cooking?

Eastender

Just started to try to cook curry but our current chimney hood is unable to cope and have to open all the back doors, to ged rid of the cooking odour! even the clothes have curry aroma:D

So I'm asking can recommend a suitable chimney hood that is powerful enough, not sure how powerful it needs to be?

Thanks.

googler

Does your hood extract, I.e. vent to the outside of the house, or does it merely recirculate?

cte1111

I've never found a cooker hood that is effective. Opening windows / doors is much better and you don't get the awful noise.

Eastender

googler wrote: »

Does your hood extract, I.e. vent to the outside of the house, or does it merely recirculate?

vent outside the house.

Swan_2

I love the smell of curry all over the house

googler

Eastender wrote: »

vent outside the house.

In that case, make sure the cooker hood motor is actually connected to the vent ( we found ours wasn't, and I had to install ducting myself), and ideally that it's not connected with any more flexible ducting than is needed. The ribbed flexible ducting restricts airflow.

With the hood running full tilt, go outside and make sure there's some good airflow from the vent.

ryder72

Extractors work if they are properly specified.

As a thumbrule the extraction capacity should be a minimum of 10 times the volume of the room. Try and ensure that this extraction rate is not on the intensive setting but on the lower settings, else the noise level also goes up. I tend to work with a multiple of 15 for cooking with strong smells or wok cooking.

Keep your ducting run short and straight with the largest ducting cross-section possible. This maximises extractor performance and reduces noise levels.

Turn your extractor on 10 minutes before cooking. Extractors work best with slight negative pressure so a door or window wide open actually hinders performance. Open a window slightly and make sure that this is ideally on a wall opposite the hood. If not, atleast a sufficient distance away from the hob to not alter air flow by creating a draft.

Ideally your extractor should be wider than your hob.

Let your extractor run for 10 minutes after cooking.

Keep your grease filters clean.

Buy the most powerful extractor you can afford. A cheap extractor is probably also going to be noisy. You get what you pay for.

Finally - extractors work. Without extractors you are letting grease, odours and humidity stay in the kitchen and this will affect your enjoyment of the kitchen and possibly cause long term damage to your furniture (humidity and discolouration from grease).