[Shop-talk] Kitchen vent hood?

[Jim Franklin]

If you want to evacuate that kind of smoke, and still maintain a conversation, you need to spend money. 

As points of contrast, in my current home that I planned to flip, I installed a nice hoo from Frigidaire like in your picture, cost all of $150 or so. On fan 1 it is like a tornado in sound and barely evacuates steam from boiling water. It has a direct pipe straight up through the roof. The noise comes from the mesh filter and the cheap fan design. The switch block was loose when I got it and I had to take it apart to tighten it. The MR22?? lights are almost impossible to install because the sockets are misaligned with the housing. 

10 years ago I received a Viking stove for free and remodelled the kitchen around it including a 42" hood with commercial style grease baffles, and a 1200 cfm exterior fan. It would suck pets into space and you could still hear normal conversations. That was about $3000, plus all the DIY of building a soffit in an adjoining room and running the solid duct to the back of the house (always use solid ducting).

A friend has some fancy Italian setup with the motor integral to the roof vent, and straight ducting. It works well, is quiet, cost a lot, and the motor burned out after 10 years and took months to get parts for. I would leave the exotica for the garage. 

Broan/Nutone make decent consumer lever stuff, Fantech is better. 

I just remembered I had a Broan Allure III that had a nice quiet level 1 for extracting steam, and did a decent job of bigger stuff at higher levels but still had the mesh screen so it was noisy on level 3, but fine for this bachelor. It would not handle cructacean conflagrations though.

jim

> On Sep 19, 2020, at 11:18 AM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:
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> If you happen to be a friend on Facebook, you know how much I like cooking.  Sometimes I make a mess, stink up the place with whatever I'm working on.  I made some blackened shrimp one time, and got my cast iron skillet hot enough so that the butter coated shrimp burst into flames when they hit the pan.
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> I'm thinking a nice vent hood to pipe some of the fumes and such outside would be a nice addition.  Has anyone added such a device to their own kitchen?  Tips, tricks, recommendations?
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> mjb.
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