Cooker Hood recommendations

arty688

Hello,

Though I would change my cooker hood as:-

 1  the lighting is bad and being partially sighted I need good lighting

2. I keep hitting my head on it

I was thinking of one of those angled ones , also not too fussed about its extractor abilities only after ok which I know seems odd as that's its main function. I would put lighting and noise above its ability to extract.

So I thought I would do the usual and look for reviews / YouTube but I was surprised by the lack of reviews.

Has anyone any recommendation for a 60cm angled cooker hood thats not too expensive ?

Cheers

ThisIsWeird

Just discovered 'telescopic' hoods whilst researching for bro', and he's gone for this on his new kitchen.

Slimline, sits under a cooker wall unit out of the way, and you just pull it forwards as and when needed - as far as you want.

https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/en/product/cooking-and-baking/cooker-hoods/builtincookerhoods/DFS067A51B

Not up and running yet, so no idea of how effective, or lighting and stuff.

There's a cheaper Series 2, but I think less powerful and more noisy. All being relative.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226524485724?

A Series 4, slight dink: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226521408137?

EssexExile

I put brighter bulbs in my old hood so I could see what I was cooking. And I agree, noise is important. Most online retailers mention noise in their specifications but you have to be careful because some quote the noise on the lowest setting and some on the highest setting. Some quote both.

arty688

ThisIsWeird said:

Just discovered 'telescopic' hoods whilst researching for bro', and he's gone for this on his new kitchen.

Slimline, sits under a cooker wall unit out of the way, and you just pull it forwards as and when needed - as far as you want.

https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/en/product/cooking-and-baking/cooker-hoods/builtincookerhoods/DFS067A51B

Not up and running yet, so no idea of how effective, or lighting and stuff.

There's a cheaper Series 2, but I think less powerful and more noisy. All being relative.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226524485724?

A Series 4, slight dink: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226521408137?

Thanks , but it's to replace one with a chimney so can't really change without a major kitchen work/ redecorating 

arty688

EssexExile said:

I put brighter bulbs in my old hood so I could see what I was cooking. And I agree, noise is important. Most online retailers mention noise in their specifications but you have to be careful because some quote the noise on the lowest setting and some on the highest setting. Some quote both.

Think the bulbs in the one I have now are non standard and the whole unit is not very good and banging my head is becoming annoying to me but the kids find it funny...

Chickereeeee

ThisIsWeird said:

Just discovered 'telescopic' hoods whilst researching for bro', and he's gone for this on his new kitchen.

Slimline, sits under a cooker wall unit out of the way, and you just pull it forwards as and when needed - as far as you want.

https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/en/product/cooking-and-baking/cooker-hoods/builtincookerhoods/DFS067A51B

Not up and running yet, so no idea of how effective, or lighting and stuff.

There's a cheaper Series 2, but I think less powerful and more noisy. All being relative.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226524485724?

A Series 4, slight dink: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226521408137?

The couple of telescopic ones I have tried and not very smooth to pull out, and I have heard that they get worse as gunk collects in the rails, which I can believe.

Is there any real benefit to the telescopic part? I imagine  most steam etc would be pulled back to a normal under-cabinet one, and you could make sure to put the worst saucepans at the back anyway.  The pull-out ones seem to offer more faff, and opportunities to bang your head.

ThisIsWeird

Chickereeeee said:

The couple of telescopic ones I have tried and not very smooth to pull out, and I have heard that they get worse as gunk collects in the rails, which I can believe.

Is there any real benefit to the telescopic part? I imagine  most steam etc would be pulled back to a normal under-cabinet one, and you could make sure to put the worst saucepans at the back anyway.  The pull-out ones seem to offer more faff, and opportunities to bang your head.

No idea - hasn't been tried in anger yet.

I'd hope that Bosch would be decent in terms of operation, but we'll see.

Bro already had a sloping type, which worked 'ok', but it's hard to see how it can catch steam wafting out forwards of the surface.

Like Arty, and possibly 'cos he's 6'2", he'd also done a good bit of head-banging with previous hoods, hence looking for something that wouldn't do this. I'd like to think that, for normal cooking, the extending bit can stay in place, but for full-hob jobbies, it can be pulled out to cover more area. Anyhoo, we'll see.

silvercar

I've never found a cooker hood that extracts smells efficiently. Instead I have an extractor fan on the wall (to comply with building regulations)/ In practice I open the window.