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Unless clearly proven otherwise it’s most likely venting into the room.

by ianai 4y ago

sendfoods 4y ago
Maybe these type of stovetop-height vents [1] can make a large difference here. [1] https://www.bora.com/be/de/kochfeldabzugssysteme/bora-s-pure/ https://www.bora.com/be/de/kochfeldabzugssysteme/bora-s-pure...
- tpxl 4y ago
  That design is garbage. Hot stuff from your stove will naturally rise, so capturing it above the stove is much better.
- manojlds 4y ago
  Is it doing some Harry Potter or Ghostbuster magic? Also, pressure cookers have a vent on the top and blow the steam up. Also what happens to spillages? Edit: they do say this - "If anything is spilt during cooking, the integrated tray safely catches both solids and liquids." - yeah that's gonna go well. Like another commenter says, this is total garbage.
jhugo 4y ago
Is this common? I've only lived in a few places with gas hobs (a couple of places in Europe and a couple of places in Asia), and all of them had an extractor with a vent through the wall to the outside. I thought that was basically universal.
- Brybry 4y ago
  In the US, especially apartments, kitchen cooktops often have no ventilation (or the hood will even fake vent into a cabinet). I don't really know how it's code but it might be because there's often a window in the room that can be used instead? I think that's how some bathrooms got away with not having a vent too.
Tor3 4y ago
I've never seen one venting into the room. There's always been a vent to outside. Otherwise it would be pointless to have one - like using an air conditioner venting the hot air inside the room.
- tym0 4y ago
  In the UK all the one I've had vented into the room sadly...
  - Tor3 4y ago
    That's.. incredible. Why is it used at all then? It sounds like worse than not using it. If I'm not venting outside when I'm frying something then the smoke alarm goes off too.
    - kmlx 4y ago
      because it filters the air, it doesn’t just simply put the air back into the room.
    - manojlds 4y ago
      The carbon filter removes smoke and such right, so the smoke alarm won't be triggered. What do you mean when I'm not venting outside? You mean when you are not running the extractor?
      - Tor3 4y ago
        Sometimes when I'm running the extractor I may at the same time have the door to the living room open and the kitchen window open and running the living room wood stove at maximum - if I do, it sucks so much air from the room that the ventilator in the kitchen doesn't get a chance: The stove takes air via the kitchen window and goes straight past the ventilator even if at max, and into the living room. Where the detector sniffs enough to notice. A rare situation of course, but it has happened to me a handful of times over the years (and also the opposite - ventilator in kitchen running at max, kitchen window closed, living room wood stove going, the vent sucks smoke from the living room wood stove and the smoke detector goes off). As to the other comment - my ventilator doesn't have a carbon filter and I have little experience with those. I recon it will remedy some of the problems with re-venting back into the room compared with the alternative (using nothing). And I've seen vents in Japan with carbon filters, or at least something similar - but they vent outside, not inside. I wonder though about all the other kind of fumes from cooking, the metal-grid "filter" in my vent gets quite greasy and needs to be washed and cleaned now and then.
is_true 4y ago
If it's venting in the room it's a filter, not a extractor

Unless clearly proven otherwise it’s most likely venting into the room.

by ianai 4y ago

Unless clearly proven otherwise it’s most likely venting into the room.

Maybe these type of stovetop-height vents [1] can make a large difference here. [1] https://www.bora.com/be/de/kochfeldabzugssysteme/bora-s-pure/ https://www.bora.com/be/de/kochfeldabzugssysteme/bora-s-pure...

tpxl 4y ago
That design is garbage. Hot stuff from your stove will naturally rise, so capturing it above the stove is much better.
manojlds 4y ago
Is it doing some Harry Potter or Ghostbuster magic? Also, pressure cookers have a vent on the top and blow the steam up. Also what happens to spillages? Edit: they do say this - "If anything is spilt during cooking, the integrated tray safely catches both solids and liquids." - yeah that's gonna go well. Like another commenter says, this is total garbage.

jhugo 4y ago

Is this common? I've only lived in a few places with gas hobs (a couple of places in Europe and a couple of places in Asia), and all of them had an extractor with a vent through the wall to the outside. I thought that was basically universal.

Brybry 4y ago
In the US, especially apartments, kitchen cooktops often have no ventilation (or the hood will even fake vent into a cabinet). I don't really know how it's code but it might be because there's often a window in the room that can be used instead? I think that's how some bathrooms got away with not having a vent too.

Tor3 4y ago

I've never seen one venting into the room. There's always been a vent to outside. Otherwise it would be pointless to have one - like using an air conditioner venting the hot air inside the room.

tym0 4y ago
In the UK all the one I've had vented into the room sadly...
- Tor3 4y ago
  That's.. incredible. Why is it used at all then? It sounds like worse than not using it. If I'm not venting outside when I'm frying something then the smoke alarm goes off too.
  - kmlx 4y ago
    because it filters the air, it doesn’t just simply put the air back into the room.
  - manojlds 4y ago
    The carbon filter removes smoke and such right, so the smoke alarm won't be triggered. What do you mean when I'm not venting outside? You mean when you are not running the extractor?
    - Tor3 4y ago
      Sometimes when I'm running the extractor I may at the same time have the door to the living room open and the kitchen window open and running the living room wood stove at maximum - if I do, it sucks so much air from the room that the ventilator in the kitchen doesn't get a chance: The stove takes air via the kitchen window and goes straight past the ventilator even if at max, and into the living room. Where the detector sniffs enough to notice. A rare situation of course, but it has happened to me a handful of times over the years (and also the opposite - ventilator in kitchen running at max, kitchen window closed, living room wood stove going, the vent sucks smoke from the living room wood stove and the smoke detector goes off). As to the other comment - my ventilator doesn't have a carbon filter and I have little experience with those. I recon it will remedy some of the problems with re-venting back into the room compared with the alternative (using nothing). And I've seen vents in Japan with carbon filters, or at least something similar - but they vent outside, not inside. I wonder though about all the other kind of fumes from cooking, the metal-grid "filter" in my vent gets quite greasy and needs to be washed and cleaned now and then.

is_true 4y ago

If it's venting in the room it's a filter, not a extractor