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I cooked up a curry last week (very tasty) but the kitchen stank for the next few days - so it got me thinking about fitting an extractor. Because of the layout of the kitchen it's not possible to fit an extractor but a recirculator is an option. Went round a mates house yesterday to take a look at his but wasn't very impressed - it didn't seem to do much except suck in damp air at the bottom and blow it out the top. He said he hadn't changed the filter recently. Is a recirculator worth fitting or should I just open the window and invest in a supply of Air Fresheners to get rid of unwanted cooking smells?
If there's a window to open, it's possible to fit an extractor.
If there's a window to open, it's possible to fit an extractor.
I mean one that sits over the cooker with a fan and lights.
At the end of the day, no recirculating extractor will ever work as well as an externally vented one unfortunately.
Even with a cooker hood extractor to outside, our house still stinks of curry the next day!
They are gash. Well, that's not entirely true. If you replace the filters more than once every three years ( 😳 ) i'm sure the smells would be better.
Ours was just about OK. Smoke was just moved around, some smells were reduced but gash it remains.
Sorry, all the recirculators I've ever seen are useful only for the lights. Can you not put in trunking to carry the vent to the outside wall?
Tweak the layout or find a way to extract outside. Anything else is a poor solution. At best recirculators reduce the amount of grease kicked into the airBecause of the layout of the kitchen it's not possible to fit an extractor but a recirculator is an option.
Ours (with newish charcoal filters) seems to do an ok job, but:
High ceilings, so it whisks the air up from the cooker, through the filters and to ceiling height...
..and we have an extractor at ceiling height, though on the opposite side of the room.
Not as good as direct extraction, but "fine" and better than nothing.
stick a 5 inch louvered vent in the window.
works for us.