Choosing a kitchen cooker hood

d0nkeyk0ng

In the midst of kitchen extension work. SWMBO loves her various Asian cuisines so the kitchen can get very smoky/pungent, and this quickly permeates the whole house. Fine when you’re hungry but not so when you’re trying to sleep. We often resort to opening the doors and windows to ventilate. The current cooker hood/ fan is a built in recirculating one. We would like to go for vented but there are so many choices and styles (who knew you could buy designer extractor hoods?) I’m flummoxed on where to start. 

Kitchen size will be approx 5m by 5m when finished. Gas hob, 5-burner. 

Belenus

Can the existing current cooker hood be adapted to vent to the outside?

I believe that some are designed so they can be used for either recirculation or venting outside. I may be wrong about that.

Another_Level

Is the hob fitted to an island unit or against a wall ?

What's thy length  of your hob ?

few days ago fitted a neff n70 90cm cooker hood (very short duct to outside) being used over an 80cm  5 gas hob with woke burner for a very fussy customer, They love it and want the same in their other house 

Loads of extractor hobs on the market, some are chinese copies some are original quality products from known manufactures.
Fitted them all (customer sourced) cheap end are pants  no suction and as loud as concorde 

Chickereeeee

Another_Level said:

Is the hob fitted to an island unit or against a wall ?

What's thy length  of your hob ?

few days ago fitted a neff n70 90cm cooker hood (very short duct to outside) being used over an 80cm  5 gas hob with woke burner for a very fussy customer, They love it and want the same in their other house 

Loads of extractor hobs on the market, some are chinese copies some are original quality products from known manufactures.
Fitted them all (customer sourced) cheap end are pants  no suction and as loud as concorde 

Can I be cheeky  and ask which you would recommend  for me? Against outside wall, 100cm gas hob/range cooker. Extraction vent hole in wall as low as possible, without compromising noise/performance, please.

Thanks

d0nkeyk0ng

Belenus said:

Can the existing current cooker hood be adapted to vent to the outside?

I believe that some are designed so they can be used for either recirculation or venting outside. I may be wrong about that.

It’s a recirculating one only so no it can’t be adapted. The kitchen it’s currently in is 2.5 x 3m and it’s utter pants at clearing the fumes so I wouldn’t want to reuse it either. 

d0nkeyk0ng

Another_Level said:

Is the hob fitted to an island unit or against a wall ?

What's thy length  of your hob ?

few days ago fitted a neff n70 90cm cooker hood (very short duct to outside) being used over an 80cm  5 gas hob with woke burner for a very fussy customer, They love it and want the same in their other house 

Loads of extractor hobs on the market, some are chinese copies some are original quality products from known manufactures.
Fitted them all (customer sourced) cheap end are pants  no suction and as loud as concorde 

It will be against the side wall (the island will have the sink) and vented out to the back wall. I’d rather pay a little extra for something that works very well. 

Current hob is 700mm. I think new one will be 700-800 depending on which one we go for. 

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We went on reviews from Which according to our budget and room volume for electric (gas has different requirements?) then looked at the versions. For example you can look at the spares on the Neff web site and see that more expensive version or one that has a high score use the same motors as the cheaper ones. But extract to the outside, always been the case in our house but make sure the backdraught preventer is fitted or it gets cold in the winter.

Ended up with a Neff due to cost and chimney hight for the room (some are not as easy to fit as others it seems especially if you need the higher clearance) but the one scoring well wasn't available in the UK (for the B reason) and that is when we used the spares part section of the Neff site to see what was the same in the one we bought compared to the higher scoring one. Bit convoluted but got there in the end.