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Range Hood Advice

8 years ago

I'm looking for a range hood with the following qualities:

  • Powerful - to capture oil and smoke (from 20,000 BTU burner), and to remove cooking odors from highly spiced cooking as well
  • Quiet - or as quiet as possible
  • 30" wide
  • Under cabinet
  • Stainless steel

We have a small house with an open concept kitchen, so we don't want a lot of noise coming from the kitchen from the fan, but we do want industrial performance. Is there such a thing? Willing to pay for quality - don't care one way or the other about brand names.


Comments (5)

  • 8 years ago

    Ventahood. And do not forget to budget for and engineer the required Make Up Air system that your choices will need.

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    8 years ago

    I love my Vent-a-hood but any time you get high CFM it is noisy that is just the way it is I would also suggest in your situation if you can go wider than your range by 6” it will help to capture grease and odors.I do a lot of wok cooking and my hood does an amazing job . Also make sure it is mounted at the right height from the stove and that you have no bends in the ducting if at all possible.Try to remember to turn the fan on before you start cooking and i let mine run for a bit afterwards too

  • 8 years ago

    Often a hood can be noisy due to the ductwork it's connected to. If a hood is spec'd for an 8" diameter duct, and instead the duct from the kitchen is 6" or smaller, the hood will be noisy. That is why you will often see reviews for the same hood, but one will complain it's noisy and one will say it's quiet. The hoods are the same; it's the ductwork.

    Also I think people have unrealistic expectations about hood noise. Any motor, running at head height, will be noisy. Think of your bathroom fan, which is usually 80-120 cfms. How noisy is it? Your kitchen hood will have several times those cfms. If you want quiet, install an external blower, but it will be $$$.

  • 8 years ago
    Which ranges have external blowers or is that a separate accessory?
  • 8 years ago

    There are hoods supplied with internal blowers, and hoods without internal blowers that use external blowers; neither type is associated with a particular range. For least noise, the hood should be ducted to an external blower with an in-line silencer (e.g., from Fantech) if there is room to fit it. If the duct path is very short, there will be only a modest difference in sound level between internal and external, assuming equal flow rates, and in that case secondary factors may select between internal and external.

    Note that this forum is replete with hood topics containing various amounts of technical requirements information.