Same miracle occurred at my house! Yay for good grease-sucking hoods. Chag sameach!

Me, three! made the sufganiot at night, finishing at 1:30. Sleepers didn't notice a thing!

Sigh..I wish I could join you guys in celeberating a hood miracle. I was so looking forward to it when I bought the highly recommended Kobe CHX 191 hood. I am so underwhelmed by its performance-it is vented straight up through the roof and even when operating at the highest CFM it can't seem to keep up with the raising fumes from the front burners. I hadn't realized how little the hood and range overlap less than 12 inches so I am forced to use the back small burners for the oily stuff! I brought the baffle version thinking it will be a breeze to pop those in the DW but alas, they don't fit in my Bosch unless I remove all trays from it. Sorry, don't mean to rain on ur parade but just as a word of advice to other hood shoppers-check the overlap between the hood and range.

you guys are funny. I oven fried the livivot.

Love this! Happy Hanukkah to all!

Oh, that sounds so nice...the food and the hood! I was at a friend's for dinner, something spilled over in the range oven, smoke poured out, she turned on the hood and in 3 silent seconds the room was clear. Awesome.

Happy Holiday Cooking!

Congrats and enjoy!

We are going through unpleasantness with our contractor over the positioning and bad finish work on a new hood installation, unfortunately, but as-is it does move air and is such a gigantic improvement over having an un-vented kitchen.

Very glad we went for a serious piece of equipment -- an Imperial 600cfm. Also nice is that it takes standard PAR20 floodlight bulbs, 2 x 50 watts, which means a wide range of halogen or LED bulbs fit and with tons of light. Much more enjoyable to cook!

Livundev_liny, I'm sorry that your hood isn't effective. It's so frustrating to do your homework and do it all right and have it fail.

Bpathome, mine is far from silent. I knew that was a sacrifice I made in enchange for power and economy. I'm sound sensitive, and it's not loud. But it's not as quiet as it could be. Of course, I was paranoid, so I used it on high. Low is far quieter.

Quahog, I read your thread. I was going to comment, but so many people already had. I'm glad at least it works. I hope he makes it right. That is so wrong.

Happy Chanukah all.

Wow- I only wish for a hood like that. Night 7 and I'm still smelling the grease from the first night. All listed hoods are now on my shortlist. Best test of a hood that I know of. Thanks,

A side note on latkes... We're at my parents house for a few days and my mom made amazing latkes, baked, not fried, with hash browns! Now, I'm a traditional girl who likes my latkes crispy and oily, but these really were good. Even my kids ate them and they are picky.

Happy Chanukah
Sounds delicious even if you can't smell it for days.
I got scared away from a more powerful hood due to the MUA issue and having induction. The good news, I can only smell dinner for about 12 hours instead of days. I was thinking of replacing with a Kobe but will nuke that one.
I need a rear vent.

Viennamommy, I'm glad that one actually worked for you guys. My husband says I'm Cooks Illustrated cult member. Last year I tried their hash brown, baked latke recipe. Total failure. None of us liked them at all. So this year I went back to the traditional method.

A2gemini, mine vents to the rear. It's not actually that powerful... Only 620 CFM. But we also didn't want to deal with MUA. We'd originally budgeted for an OTR microwave, but then I was educated here. No money left for anything generally recommended. I was able to get mine for under $400; so it was powerful for the price, and it had baffles that I can put in my dishwasher. I'm sure it's not the best hood out there. But as it passed the Chanukah test, I'm willing to give it my stamp of approval. I used to smell my curries, etc all night long, especially in my daughter's room. Now I don't smell them so long as we clean up after dinner. For reference, I'm coming from basically no venting. In my old kitchen, there was a fan in the ceiling that vented into the attic. (The wall was full of mold they pulled it down.). As I said, I tend to use it on high because I'm paranoid. It's 6.5 sones on high, so it's not horrible, but it's pretty damn loud. Even on low it is still 3 sones. If we'd had the budget, I'm sure I could have found something quieter. But I used to set of my smoke detector constantly, and I haven't once since I've had it. No smokey house any more when I make hamburgers or steaks. And I can always turn it off right after cooking, so I never hear it while we eat.

cook1: One other plus for the Imperial brand is that it has a 7 year warranty which includes in-home service -- if it breaks, a tech comes to your kitchen and repairs it.

That's also why we're insisting our contractor mount it in a way that fully complies with mfg specs -- we'd have gone cheaper w/o the warranty so it'd really suck to have it voided.

The miracle in my case is that I didn't set off the smoke detector when frying my latkes (we only have a recirculating hood - not possible to vent outside). We set it off just twice over the past year, I think making salmon in both cases, and oh, what a pain to turn it off (and it is absolutely ear-splitting).

Happy last night of Chanukah!

We went more for form than function when we chose our hood (figuring, anything was better than the piece o'crap in our old kitchen!). DH did tell me after we started using it (and were kinda underwhelmed with its power), that we could replace it.....

It does look sleek, and is pretty quiet (on the lower speeds especially), but I wouldn't mind replacing it with something that's still relatively quiet, but clears away the latke aromas better!

Lucky you! I'm still smelling the brisket with mushroom and onion gravy from Sunday dinner. My kitchen is unvented and has no windows:( I hope someday to join the ranks of the venters!