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Today there are many different kitchen hoods that are designed to purify and remove air contaminated during the cooking process. The choice of a cooker hood should be based on the intensity of the dirt and the size of the kitchen, as well as its capacity and the filters installed on the hood.
How to choose a hood in the kitchen
Design features of modern hoods
The structure of the hood for the kitchen includes: – an electric motor with a fan (from one to two motors); – a cleaning filter (from one to four); – a body.
Traditionally, the hood is attached to the ceiling or wall, however there is a type of hood that is built into kitchen cabinets.
Wall-mounted kitchen hoods come in a variety of geometric shapes, but the most popular model is rectangular. No less common are chimney-type hoods, although consumers recognize the hood equipped with a retractable screen, which is invisible when not in operation, and covers the stove area in a working one, effectively purifying the air as the most harmonious and functional air purifier.
Also, some good modern hoods are equipped with backlighting, which allows you to monitor the degree of readiness of food in any light. In the design of air purifiers, ordinary lamps and fluorescent lamps are used, the power of which is sufficient to illuminate the kitchen at night. In addition, this feature allows you to significantly save on electricity.
More expensive models of kitchen hoods allow you to adjust the brightness of the built-in lighting and even focus it on a specific object, which gives the kitchen a stylish and unusual look.
The kitchen hood filter can be coarse and fine. The first type is designed to trap fat that is formed during cooking and is made from metal or synthetic materials.
Metal filters can be reused, while synthetic filters are disposable and must be replaced frequently
Grease filters protect the air ducts and the fan motor. If there is another filter in the hood, you will have to remove the accumulation of grease on the air cleaner yourself.
The fine filters contain activated carbon, which absorbs unpleasant odors and perfectly captures fine particles. This filter is well suited for the hood if the kitchen is not equipped with sufficient supply and exhaust ventilation.
It is necessary to clean and change the filters as they become dirty, rinsing their mesh with warm water and detergents. The charcoal filter cannot be cleaned and must be replaced with new ones. It is possible to calculate the replacement period based on the technical documentation of the equipment, but usually it ranges from six months to several years.
Depending on the complexity of the model, it can be equipped with an automatic indication of the level of contamination and the service life, which signals the need to replace the filter with a corresponding light signal.
Efficiency of cooker hoods
The main criterion when choosing a hood is the efficiency of its operation, which depends on the maximum performance of the fan. This indicator is always indicated in the instructions for the device. You can determine its multiplicity as follows: the value of productivity should not be lower than the free area of your kitchen (in square meters), which is multiplied by the height of the kitchen (in decimeters).
When choosing a cooker hood, you must remember to maintain a balance between comfort and performance, since powerful air cleaners consume a lot of electricity and make a lot of noise.
A low-capacity cooker hood is suitable for a kitchen that does not perform daily large-scale cooking. Such models are energy efficient and quiet enough. Usually, hoods, regardless of their performance, have several power modes, and the most expensive devices allow you to smoothly adjust the fan speed.
The simplest and most inexpensive is control with a slider switch. The operating speeds of such a hood are arranged in order and are switched off in reverse order.
Pushbutton control is performed by buttons that turn on the required speed. The option is quite simple and reliable, however, it is inconvenient to wash the hood with such control because of the protruding buttons.
The hood with an attractive touch panel is operated by touching sensors with flat LED indicators. It is much easier to care for this model than for hoods with previous control options.
Sophisticated models of hoods with sensors automatically turn on when steam and smoke appear, switching to economy mode after cleaning
The most effective is electronic control, which allows you to program the operation of the hood, which will turn off on its own either after cleaning the air, or at a time set on the timer.