If you’re looking for a cooker hood, you may be wondering which cooker hood to choose. After all, there are recirculating and extractor cooker hoods. Extracting cooker hoods extract all of the smells and air from your kitchen and can work really well. But what do recirculating cooker hoods do? And is this type of …
Downdraft extractors offer a smart way to ventilate your kitchen without needing a bulky overhead cooker hood. You can hide a downdraft extractor from view when you’re not using it, making it an excellent choice for a minimalist modern kitchen. They can be installed in any area of a kitchen and are particularly useful for …
If you’ve been looking at extraction units for your kitchen recently, you may have seen downdraft extraction fans. These are a relatively new way of extracting the odours and steam from your kitchen. You may be wondering what magic lies under the stylish exterior of a downdraft fan and how it works, and that is …
If you’ve read our other extractor hood articles (Fitting a Cooker Hood, for example), you may be wondering whether all extractor fans for the kitchen need to vent outside. The short answer is no. However, it greatly depends on the extractor fan you buy and which one is best for your kitchen. Let’s find out …
Your kitchen is quite a unique place in your home. Other than the bathroom, no other room is subjected to such huge variations in moisture and temperature levels. You may think that moisture in a kitchen is normal, and it is, but it does need to be controlled. If there’s no way for moisture to …
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What’s the most powerful cooker hood on the market in the UK? In this article we’ll be answering that question and listing some cooker hoods with especially high extraction rates. Since the style of cooker hood affects extraction rates, we’ve decided to look at the most powerful models in each different category of cooker hood. …
A lot of cooker hoods produce a noise that makes it sound like there’s a jumbo jet in your kitchen. This is hardly ideal when you want to have a quiet evening! We put up with this noise because it’s better than letting the smell of fried mackerel make our home uninhabitable. Cooker hoods are …
If you’re looking for a cooker hood that doesn’t need ducting, this roundup of the best recirculating cooker hoods is for you. A cooker hood is a vital piece of kitchen equipment. It can stop your kitchen smelling, stop mould and damp causing issues in your kitchen and, of course, can complete the perfect look …
Cooker hoods are essential if you want to extract moisture, smells and grease from your kitchen when you cook. There are various styles of cooker hoods available on the market that use different methods of removing airborne grease and food odours. The type of cooker hood you choose and the way you use it to …
Every time you cook food using your hob you will cause some degree of air pollution during the process. Whenever food is heated, a portion of the food will evaporate into the air. This is usually most obvious if you’re cooking high-fat food such as bacon on a very hot griddle plan producing a large …
