Extractor cooker hood with no vent

Bollo2019

I've recently bought a new kitchen and had an extractor cooker hood fitted, however due to the placement it is not ducted to vent externally. I was told by the kitchen fitter that I could get away with this by using filters. Trying to establish if this is correct as I'm reading suggestions that filters are used if you use a recirculation hood... So will filters be effective in extracting or will the steam, smells and grease not just bypass and end up being blown into the ceiling the hood is fixed to?

doningtonphil

On our recirculating one there are vent holes on the side of the chimney. The chimney just buts up to the ceiling.

Air is sucked in through the filters and is expelled through the vent holes. The filters are pretty good at capturing the grease and smells, good idea to maintain them regularly

TELLIT01

Yes they do work, but as said by doningtonphil, filters need to be changed regularly.

trailingspouse

Yes, you can just use filters. Personally, if you can't vent to the outside, you're spending a lot of money on a hood when you could just open a window to clear cooking smells...

TELLIT01

trailingspouse wrote: »

Yes, you can just use filters. Personally, if you can't vent to the outside, you're spending a lot of money on a hood when you could just open a window to clear cooking smells...

It's not always that simple. Our hob is about as far from the window as it's possible to be in the kitchen. That was the only practical place to put it. Also, I wouldn't want to have a window open in the middle of winter when trying to keep the house warm. The extractor also help minimise the amount of steam circulating in the kitchen.

Meepster

I could go into a lot of detail here, but I haven't got the time, however a recirculating hood can actually be better at getting rid of smells and steam than one that is vented.

This is due to the fact that 99% of people don't use them properly in the first place and if it's not being used properly, recirculating hoods are usually working more efficiently.

markin

If you don't use an extractor at all you end up with grease on the walls and ceiling but you should still open a window for the steam.

Ganga

TELLIT01 wrote: »

It's not always that simple. Our hob is about as far from the window as it's possible to be in the kitchen. That was the only practical place to put it. Also, I wouldn't want to have a window open in the middle of winter when trying to keep the house warm. The extractor also help minimise the amount of steam circulating in the kitchen.

Agree 100% with above,with up to 4 pans boiling away on the hob the extractor hood keeps the steam/smells down.

Belenus

Ganga wrote: »

Agree 100% with above,with up to 4 pans boiling away on the hob the extractor hood keeps the steam/smells down.

Unless you need a rolling boil for pasta etc, then turn the heat down to a minimum and put lids on the pots and you should get far less steam escaping.

Sandtree

You just need to check if your hood comes setup to do either or if you need to buy a "recirculation kit" which are the filters (and possibly a holder for them) that your fitter mentioned. These are used to trap the smells and generally work fairly well.

shown73

There does also seem to be a big difference in extraction rates with different makes. Worth looking into.