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The kitchen exhaust fans in American homes are very weak (at least, every one I've lived in, and visited...). When cooking, you can smell what people are cookin
by fma 7y ago
The kitchen exhaust fans in American homes are very weak (at least, every one I've lived in, and visited...). When cooking, you can smell what people are cooking, so it's not really doing its job of pulling the air out. I upgraded begrudgingly to a Chines brand called Fotile. It's expensive and I fought tooth and nail with my wife because my natural instincts was not to trust Chinese brands I never heard of. Admittedly, it's one of my best purchases. We can be frying stuff on the stove and standing 5 feet away, you won't smell it.
And like the link below says...it's the biggest appliance company I've never heard of. I have the one pictured on the left.
https://www.treehugger.com/kitchen-design/chinese-manufacturer-fotile-designs-exhaust-hood-actually-exhausts.html https://www.treehugger.com/kitchen-design/chinese-manufactur...
- sushisource 7y agoGod I fucking hate the nonsense "range vents" on the bottoms of microwaves that is typical of many American homes (mine included). They do literally nothing. It's infuriating that in my new-construction, rather nice, home I get this pretend bullshit in my otherwise lovely kitchen. I'm tempted to get a proper range hood just because this infuriates me so much, but the cost of redoing the whole cabinet above the stove is steep.
- fma 7y agoLol I was in the same boat. House is new construction, GE appliances... I took down the microwave and replaced it with the Fotile hood. The microwave (its huge...) sits on my counter. Needed to do minor custom wood work to mount and make it look nice, but it's doable. My dad was a carpenter so it was easy to get done.
- graeme 7y agoThanks, I wondered about that. Just moved to a new place that has one. Noticed that air pollution levels as measured by my laseregg still stay fairly high if I'm frying and have the fume hood on. It indeed seems to do little, which is unfortunate.