Cooker hood height

AFAIK, the instructions (regulations) you quote are minima, so you can put it as high up as you like. I've seen (ugly, expensive, useless) ones that hang from the ceiling like a huge light fitting.

I did go for an expensive extractor, but as I explained to the kitchen designer, for that amount of money I wasn't just going to recirculate the steam (less some of the grease).

Chris

IMNHO, recirculating cooker hoods are stupid & pointless.

Quite. Part of our kitchen refurb was the requirement that the hood vent to the outside, which it now does via a Bosch telescopic cooker hood.

They take out grease and smells if they have a carbon filter. They do nothing for moisture but you don't get much moisture if you cook in pans with a proper lid.

I don't think this house has ever had a cooker hood. One just opens the window a bit! Brian

There is quite a lot of cooking where part of the intention is to reduce the liquid, so it is necessary to permit this to escape from the pan.

Chris

Quite so, skipping over the fact that everything "dennis" says is wrong.

Try doing that when there's a howling and freezing gale from the north.

Or in the northern Highlands, during midge season.

FWIW the bottom of mine is 97 cm above the hob (and I have 2 x 600 mm hoods over a 1 metre cooker, because that was less than half the price of a range cooker hood). There's a bit of spill but it is fairly effective.

Yeah, right.

Especially this time of year.

Even more so if the cooker isn't next to a convenient window.

So you recommend centrally heating the house then creating a through draft to move all the warm air outside and save yourself money........no, that can't be right.

Externally vented cooker hoods are a Very Good Thing if you cook a lot on the hob.

Apart from anything else they help reduce the flow of cooking smells to the rest of the house.

Cheers

Dave R

What I said is correct you moron.

It is correct so far as it goes, although the use of the word "proper" before lid is a bit tendentious. There is a lot of cooking where you don't want to use a lid at all, let along a well-fitting one.

There aren't that many reasons not to have a good lid.

Reducing if you want and frying are about the only two I use.

Things like rolling boil and such are rubbish and just waste energy.

If we could get him to tell us what numbers will not be pulled on the EuroMillions draw this Tuesday.....

Yours will.

The cheap hoods have to be positioned low to work effectively, and I have seen installations where you basically cannot see into the pans at the back as the hood is in the way - ridiculous. I got at fairly powerful one - about 450 quid, Bosch I think, and put it just above my head (about 6 foot). So a taller person might bang their head. It works effectively on the lower settings with several pans, so no problem at all. Just don't get a cheap rattly fan, and you will be fine.

Simon.