I have a six burner gas stove. When installed 11 years ago, there wasn’t a “riser” type of vent with the required capacity. We installed an overhead vent hood. I’m doing some kitchen remodeling and we really want to get rid of the hood – it’s over the island and screws up the space visually. Two questions:
- Is there a high-capacity riser vent available now?
- Does it really matter if I put in a vent that’s only rated for 80% of the capacity. It’s not like we’re a resturant and regularly ask Scotty for more afterburner!
thanks
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I have a gas stove in an island with one of those vents that comes up in back. Mine #### hard enough to pull all the fire to one side of the pan I'm cooking in, but it doesn't actually do a thing for the airborne grease if I'm sauteeing something. The other day I was just browning some chicken with the fan on high and my husband in the next room started complaining that grease droplets were collecting on the screen of his GameBoy.
If you never brown chicken, or you don't have lot of ionically charged surfaces you want to keep clean, maybe it would work for you. I just think it's best to have something up top to sort of gather the rising grease before it gets away. My kitchen has a vaulted ceiling, so it would be extra hard to put in a hood. Mostly I try to cook outside on a butane hot plate if I want to do something really hot and greasy, like a steak in a cast iron skillet or something. But that's how sorry those riser vents are, in my opinion. Prefer mosquito bites to a houseful of airborne beef fat.
If you do move the hood and get one of those rising ventilators, you might at least put in one of those remote Fantech units and a louver in the hole where the duct used to be. That would be better than just the downdraft. I really wish I had that. Smoke really collects up in my vaulted ceiling. One day I'll figure out what to do about it. Maybe a big air cleaner that looks like a dehumidifier on top of one of the cabinets.
My sucking thing is a Thermador incorporated into the cooktop. They do show a stand alone Cook-n-Vent 45" unit for sale by itself. It goes up 10". 650 cfm. http://www.thermador.com
Wow, that sounds awful. I hope the euphemism police don't bust me for that paragraph. I'm really talking about cooking!