A hood has to actually project over the cooking surface in order to capture cooking vapors. You can do a cabinet look hood that is deeper than the wall cabinets, that will capture vapors. Nothing wall cabinet depth does anything but get your cabinets and house nasty.

What you’re asking for, is form over function. Any hood that doesn’t cover the front burners, will never capture the total effluents the gas burners, plus your cooking puts out. For someone who will not be venting to the outside, effectiveness should be your main concern.

Thanks for the feedback. We don't have gas burners, we've got an electrical range. I live in NYC where my current kitchen has a microwave over the stovetop and no vent at all. My last apartment didn't have anything either....

Just because you’ve had no ventilation in the past, doesn’t mean you should continue along the same unhealthy path. The cooking effluents on an electric range, are the same as on any other cooking surface. Though you don’t have gas fumes to be concerned about, you’ll still need ventilation that covers the front burners.

Your health should be your main concern, not the visual aspect.

1. How wide and deep is the cabinet above the cooktop/range?
2. Do you mind losing a portion of the cabinet above the cooktop/range for the insert hood that fits entirely within the cabinet?
3. Do you mind losing a portion of the cabinet for duct (typically 6" or 7" in diameter) extending vertically from the insert hood?
4. Do you mind having an opening (above the cabinet) that exhausts the air pulled through the insert hood back into the kitchen? See example diagram; air is exhausted through the "soffit opening".
5. Would you consider a slim microwave oven (example) instead of a hood?

It sounds like you need a ductless range hood. They come in lots of shapes and sizes, but the posters here that suggest making sure it’s deep/wide enough to cover the full stove are on the right track. There are also some wall-mounted versions that don’t require the cabinets, like this. If you Google “ductless range hood” or search for that in any major home improvement site, you’ll be able to see the range of installment options. Hopefully you can find one you like. Good luck!

I have never been in an apartment in Manhattan with an externally vented hood except if they got a variance to alter a kitchen window and go out through part of the top of a window opening through a fabricated louvered vent. I think someone who posted in here recently was able to do this.

It's possible that some new construction buildings may have sorted out how to vent out horizontally at each floor plate, but I have never been in a Manhattan kitchen or bath that had any kind of unit controlled fan ventilation. It's pointless to insist the OP have an externally vented range hood or blame her for not having one.

Look in lower left hand corner of this photo. There is some sort of vent coming out of a window opening. (This also shows the commonness of window units in Manhattan apartments in older buildings)

Here are cabinet inserts of varying depths, some of which will fit within the depth of a standard upper cabinet, and capture best over the rear burners, some of which are deeper than standard uppers and would require a deeper upper cabinet.

I believe with many of these you run a short duct up to the soffit over the cabinets and vent back out to the room. So you will be venting the heat back into the room but you will be relying on the filters to capture grease and smells. You may want to buy a number of filter replacements to keep on hand for the future.

https://www.ajmadison.com/b.php/Cabinet+Insert%3BRange+Hoods/N~32+4294960474

Some microwaves and over the range hoods have recirculating vents that do not duct to the outside. You have to change the charcoal filter periodically.

Thanks, everyone. To reiterate - I live in a prewar building in a landmark historic district in NYC so I absolutely cannot vent to the outside! We do have a huge window in our kitchen which I think will help tremendously.

I found an option that I think may work, and checks all boxes. It is a recirculating vent that sits within the cabinet and slides out to cover the front burners as well:

https://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/CRIS30SS600.html

The pull out visor will help. I had an upper cabinet depth range hood in an apartment, vented to the exterior because I was top floor walk-up and it removed odors, trapped grease in the screens and did not coat the upper cabinets with grease. It probably didn't work as well as a deep hood but it worked.

If you go with that Faber CRIS30SS600, you must make sure that you have space within the cabinet (and any soffit above the cabinet) for the hood, 6" round vertical duct, 90-degree elbow, and horizontal duct with grill cover that route exhaust fumes back into the kitchen.

Yes essentially the cabinet above my hood like this had very little use, it was full of hood mechanics and ductwork.

Right, but you must make sure there's enough vertical space. For example, the cabinet above my range is only 12" high and there is no soffit or cabinet above it so there would not be space for that Faber 10" high hood, vertical duct, elbow, and horizontal duct.