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How appe­tiz­ing the hol­i­day cake looks, and what a mag­i­cal aro­ma comes from it! How­ev­er, not all “edi­ble” smells are so pleas­ant, so we strive to get rid of them. The eas­i­est way- ven­ti­late the room by open­ing the win­dow, but cold and even less pleas­ant “fla­vors” can come from the street. There­fore, in mod­ern kitchens, hoods are strug­gling with fumes. Our arti­cle is ded­i­cat­ed to them.

FaberSci­en­tists have proven that strong odors have a neg­a­tive effect on peo­ple’s well-being and can get on their nerves. Kitchen aro­mas that fill the entire apart­ment do not excite the appetite, but rather, on the con­trary, cause dis­gust and irri­ta­tion. BUTif you also remem­ber the unpleas­ant greasy coat­ing on the fur­ni­ture, the deci­sion to buy a hood comes by itself. Those who are going to pur­chase it should not only choose a device suit­able for their inte­ri­or with the nec­es­sary tech­ni­cal para­me­ters, but also care­ful­ly con­sid­er the instal­la­tion of the unit (there are many nuances and pit­falls in this process). We will try to draw your atten­tion to the most impor­tant points.

We meet by clothes

The hood con­sists of four main com­po­nents: hous­ing, air intake, fil­ters and fan unit. Before study­ing in detail the device of hoods, we will care­ful­ly look at these devices. Out­ward­ly, they dif­fer sig­nif­i­cant­ly from each oth­er, and not only in design. The sim­plest- flat hoods. They are of two types: mount­ed- Lana (Kro­na, Italy), FPB-2050 (Cata, Spain), DHU652U (BoschGer­many), as well as built-in- Com­pe­tence DF6260 (AEG-Elec­trolux, Ger­many), TF (Cata). The first ones are mount­ed on the wall under the wall cab­i­net (or with­out it) above the stove or to the bot­tom of the cab­i­net itself. In the sec­ond case, please note that the cab­i­net must be firm­ly attached to the wall, tak­ing into account its weight (in the state when it is full) and the weight of the hood. Built-in ones are mount­ed direct­ly in a wall-mount­ed kitchen cab­i­net (only one pan­el is vis­i­ble from the out­side), so before buy­ing, make sure that a cer­tain hood can be built into the cab­i­net and pre­pare (cut out) the cor­re­spond­ing hole.

Pho­to 1 Cata

Pho­to 2 Eli­ca

Pho­to 3 Eli­ca

Pho­to 4 Eli­ca

one.Hoods are pro­duced in dif­fer­ent styles, so that each buy­er, if desired, can find a mod­el suit­able for the most unusu­al kitchen inte­ri­or. ATthe hi-tech pop­u­lar today, for exam­ple, the Ombu TCC 900 (Cata) mod­el will fit per­fect­ly.
2–4.Hoods are often used to illu­mi­nate the hob, in this regard, mod­els such as Stream are inter­est­ing(2,3) and Cubeal­to(4) (Eli­ca).

Most com­mon- fire­place hoods: Sig­ma VL3 (Cata), ZHC 6244X (Zanus­si), Mia­mi (Jetair, both- Italy). Their name goes back to the shape of the appli­ances (although the design of mod­ern mod­els has changed a lot), they mount such units on the wall above the stove. These prod­ucts are more pro­duc­tive, they can often oper­ate in both recir­cu­la­tion and air exhaust modes. “Island” hoods- Stel­la Iso­la 5P (Kro­na), Isla Gam­ma Glass VL3 BL (Cata), DIA 093650 (Bosch)- designed to be mount­ed to the ceil­ing above the kitchen “island”. ATCor­ner hoods have also appeared in the assort­ment of many com­pa­nies (Ango­lo Box VL3 BL, Cata)- for instal­la­tion in a cor­ner.

Man­u­fac­tur­ers pay great atten­tion to the design of hoods. Cube hoods (Emili, Kro­na), cylin­ders (Pamel­la, Kro­na), fix­tures sim­i­lar to lamps (Black Stream 51 IX, Eli­ca, Italy) and many oth­er non-stan­dard prod­ucts were cre­at­ed.

As for mate­ri­als, the most pop­u­lar- stain­less steel (DWA 093550, Bosch) and alu­minum (DA 289–4, Miele, Ger­many). Mod­els made of stain­less steel look very impres­sive, espe­cial­ly since most often it is pol­ished. Such a sur­face is easy to clean, but can­not be cleaned with abra­sives. In order for it to retain its orig­i­nal appear­ance, it must be looked after (some­times even with the help of spe­cial means). Anoth­er dis­ad­van­tage of this mate­r­i­al- fin­ger­prints remain on it, so some man­u­fac­tur­ers apply a pro­tec­tive coat­ing or offer con­sumers to wipe the stain­less steel with spe­cial com­pounds from time to time. Cata has tak­en a rad­i­cal approach with the devel­op­ment of DurAlum, a mate­r­i­al that resists fin­ger­prints and streaks. Alu­minum hoods are good because their mat­te sur­face “mim­ics” the col­or of objects in the kitchen, per­fect­ly fit­ting into the inte­ri­or, and there are no fin­ger­prints left.

Pho­to 5 Neff

Pho­to 6 Kro­na

Pho­to 7 Kro­na

5.The new wall mount­ing sys­tem Easy hood D 99W59 N0 (Neff) allows you to com­pen­sate for inac­cu­rate posi­tion­ing of fas­ten­ers with­in 6mm.

6–7.AtBel­la 3P (Kro­na) mod­els(6) max­i­mum out­put 390m³/h, while the hood Scar­lett Slim 5P (Kro­na)(7)- 800m³/h

Hoods are dec­o­rat­ed with tem­pered glass and even wood (it is cov­ered with a spe­cial pro­tec­tive var­nish). Glass, as a rule, is used when dec­o­rat­ing hoods in the Art Nou­veau style.- Jas­min 5P LCD/5P (Kro­na), Amethyst (Elikor, Rus­sia), DWA 065550 (Bosch),- and the tree is present on the hoods in the spir­it of the coun­try (“Per­go­la”, Elikor). There are also unusu­al solu­tions. So, COR‑L and COR‑S (Cata) appli­ances, lined with cori­an arti­fi­cial stone, will har­mo­nious­ly fit into the kitchen, which has, for exam­ple, a work­top made of this mate­r­i­al. BUTElikor com­pa­ny offers con­sumers the Epsilon hood, hand-paint­ed by crafts­men from Zhos­to­vo. The main motif of Zhos­to­vo paint­ing on met­al- flower bou­quet.

Main dilem­ma

Before choos­ing a hood, the buy­er will have to decide the main ques­tion: how it should remove unpleas­ant odors.- by means of recir­cu­la­tion or exhaust air? There is still no unequiv­o­cal answer to it. Both options have their pros and cons, and you have to weigh them and choose what you like best. We will tell you about the fea­tures of these two meth­ods. Most hoods are designed so that they can work in both modes, but if you do not lay the duct (it is bet­ter to do this at the repair stage), the device can only be turned on in recir­cu­la­tion mode.

With recir­cu­la­tion, the hood works like this: the fan sucks air under the umbrel­la, dri­ves it through the fil­ters and returns it back to the room already clean. The own­ers of such hoods praise them for their low price and ease of con­nec­tion, but com­plain about the low per­for­mance of the device and the inabil­i­ty to quick­ly and effi­cient­ly remove all odors from the kitchen, as well as the need to peri­od­i­cal­ly change the car­bon fil­ter.

Pho­to 8 Bosch

Pho­to 9 Cata

Pho­to 10 Eli­ca

8–9.Athoods DWB 069751 (Bosch)(8) There is a Dimm func­tion that allows you to choose the inten­si­ty of light­ing with halo­gen lamps your­self. Mod­el Delta Glass DT4S (Cata)(9) equipped with LCD dis­play.

eleven.ATnew mod­els some­times use a dif­fer­ent method of air intake: evap­o­ra­tion spreads along the cen­tral pan­el and then goes inside the case through slots locat­ed around the perime­ter of the hood. This allows for 10% to improve the cap­ture of odors and to reduce the noise lev­el by the same amount. This tech­nol­o­gy is used, for exam­ple, in the Minial­to (Eli­ca) mod­el.

ATIn the exhaust air mode, the fan also takes in air and dri­ves it through the grease fil­ter, but does not return it to the room, but throws it out of it through an air duct con­nect­ed to the ven­ti­la­tion shaft or brought direct­ly to the street. This method of odor con­trol is more effec­tive, but the instal­la­tion of air ducts is quite labo­ri­ous and requires cer­tain knowl­edge. It is not dif­fi­cult to buy an air duct, lay it and con­nect it, but there are sev­er­al prob­lems here.

Let’s say you decide to con­nect an air duct to a ven­ti­la­tion shaft. If you have a ded­i­cat­ed chan­nel (so far this is extreme­ly rare, main­ly in coun­try hous­es), there will be no dif­fi­cul­ties- con­nect to health. But if you have a ven­ti­la­tion shaft in com­mon with your neigh­bors, accord­ing to the norms, in prin­ci­ple, you do not have the right to con­nect to it: first­ly, it is pro­vid­ed for nat­ur­al ven­ti­la­tion; sec­ond­ly, it is able to pass through itself an aver­age of 140m³/ h, and by means of the hood you dri­ve through it an aver­age of 200–700m³/h or even more. ATas a result, many prob­lems will arise: kitchen smells will come back or go straight to the neigh­bors; due to the over­load of the chan­nel, your hood will have nowhere to throw air, which means that the unit will take it bad­ly and it will not be cleaned. In addi­tion, with such a trans­mis­sion of the ven­ti­la­tion shaft, it makes no sense to pur­chase a hood with high per­for­mance.

Anoth­er air out­let option- right on the street. ATin this case, you can buy an extrac­tor hood of any pow­er, and you will not have tech­ni­cal prob­lems with air removal. But you will have to cut a decent hole in the out­er wall, and this, of course, will require coor­di­na­tion with local gov­ern­ments.

Pho­to 11 Kro­na

Pho­to 12 Lex

Pho­to 13 AEG-Elec­trolux

11–12.Embed­ded (Kamil­la Wood, Kro­na)(11) and mount­ed (Smart Pro, Lex)(12) Hoods are com­pact and almost invis­i­ble. They usu­al­ly work in recir­cu­la­tion mode, often equipped with a retractable visor that allows you to increase the air intake, like Kamil­la Wood (Kro­na).
13.There are also such extra­or­di­nary vari­eties of hoods as built-in coun­ter­tops, for exam­ple FM 2500 DDA (AEG-Elec­trolux). This is part of the “domi­no” mod­ule, which, if nec­es­sary, “takes” the aro­mas from the hob. More­over, such a device can work in the modes of with­draw­al and recir­cu­la­tion. Max­i­mum per­for­mance- 350m³/h

If you decide to install an extrac­tor hood, there are a few things to con­sid­er. When con­nect­ing the hood, install a non-return valve so that the air does not return to the apart­ment (if the smells go direct­ly to the street, this device will not allow cold air to enter the room when the device is not work­ing). The mov­able flaps of the damper open when the hood is turned on to extract air from the kitchen and close when it is turned off.

But that’s not all. ATIn most city hous­es, ven­ti­la­tion is nat­ur­al, that is, air enters through the doors and cracks in the win­dows, and goes into the ven­ti­la­tion shaft. If you pur­chase a pow­er­ful hood, it will emit an aver­age of 200–700m³/h Such air loss­es must be com­pen­sat­ed, because if there is no air inflow (say, due to the fact that win­dows with dou­ble-glazed win­dows are installed in the apart­ment), a vac­u­um will occur, and the hood will stop “pulling”. One of the most reli­able (although not at all tech­no­log­i­cal­ly advanced) ways- just open the win­dow, and not in the kitchen (then the hood will take and fil­ter the air from the street), but in anoth­er room. This is cer­tain­ly not ide­al: after all, the air out­side is not very clean, and in win­ter there are even more prob­lems.- The hood push­es warm air out and push­es cold air in. There is anoth­er way out- install sup­ply valves in the win­dows of the rooms (which is impor­tant in the pres­ence of dou­ble-glazed win­dows). True, this will entail cer­tain costs, and com­plex instal­la­tion will be required. ToIn addi­tion, users are not always sat­is­fied with the result and com­plain about a strong influx of cold air.

Pho­to 14 Siemens

Pho­to 15 Zanus­si

Pho­to 16 Kro­na

Pho­to 17 Elec­trolux

14–15.Device LC 956BC60 (Siemens)(14) with built-in LCD pan­el. Mod­el ZHC 9244 X (Zanus­si)(fif­teen).
16–17.Wall-mount­ed hoods are easy to install: with the help of screws, they are easy to fix to the wall. Mod­el Rebek­ka (Kro­na)(16) is equipped with neon light­ing around the perime­ter and a con­ve­nient glass shelf for var­i­ous kitchen items. Instru­ment EFC9680X (Elec­trolux)(17) can be pro­grammed to turn off at a spec­i­fied time.

How­ev­er, do not think that due to numer­ous dif­fi­cul­ties it is not worth installing an extrac­tor hood oper­at­ing in air extrac­tion mode. This is not true. In prac­tice, high per­for­mance of the device is rarely need­ed (for exam­ple, if some­thing is burnt). Usu­al­ly, when peo­ple are cook­ing, the hood runs at a slow speed. If you do not try to send a vol­ume of air into the ven­ti­la­tion shaft that is much high­er than that which it can let through, and peri­od­i­cal­ly ven­ti­late the room, there should be no prob­lems. BUTin coun­try hous­es air out­let direct­ly to the street- one of the most pop­u­lar and effec­tive options for the oper­a­tion of the hood.

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AEG-Elec­troluxIn order for the hood to func­tion cor­rect­ly, it is very impor­tant to cor­rect­ly select and install air ducts, which are pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly in stores. For exam­ple, the noise lev­el of the air flow large­ly depends on their mate­r­i­al. Air ducts made of alu­minum foil dur­ing oper­a­tion of the hood begin to rus­tle and cre­ate addi­tion­al noise, while plas­tic pipes, on the con­trary, absorb sound. But the instal­la­tion of alu­minum pipes is eas­i­er than those made of plas­tic: the for­mer are easy to bend where you need, and the plas­tic ones are mount­ed in seg­ments that require a tight con­nec­tion. It is also impor­tant that there are no air obstruc­tions in the duct. Let’s say, “accor­dion”, bends, nar­row­ings resist the air flow, reduc­ing its speed. The size of the air duct should be select­ed based on the diam­e­ter of the hood out­let: if this para­me­ter is 100mm, it is bet­ter to pur­chase an air duct of a larg­er diam­e­ter, say 125mm.

Pho­to 18 Faber

Pho­to 19 Cata

Pho­to 20 Faber

Pho­to 21 Inde­sit

18–20.Hood Mir­ror Art (Faber)(18) dec­o­rat­ed with a del­i­cate pat­tern, mod­els COR‑S (Cata)(19) and Pearl (Faber) (20) have a mod­ern high-tech design.
21.The Prime hood (Inde­sit) is made of stain­less steel. The edges of the umbrel­la are inclined at an angle of 25, which pro­vides easy access to the con­trol pan­el. Per­for­mance- 430m³/h

Air ducts are car­ried out along the wall; some­times they are hid­den behind hang­ing cab­i­nets or false ceil­ings, hid­den behind dec­o­ra­tive box­es. You can lay air ducts in the wall, but on con­di­tion that it is framed. This option is usu­al­ly used in coun­try hous­es. If you are installing the hood in a cab­i­net, you will have to make a hole in it for the duct (usu­al­ly at the top).

Tothe hood should be con­nect­ed through a sep­a­rate out­let, so you need to think about how to hide the wire: in a wall or a box. The hood must be ground­ed (these devices have a cord with three pins- “phase”, “zero” and “ground”), and it is bet­ter to pro­vide a cir­cuit break­er on the shield. If you live in an old house with a two-wire pow­er sup­ply sys­tem, do not be too lazy to run a sep­a­rate ground wire from the shield.

Fil­ter­ing…

One of the impor­tant com­po­nents of the hood are fil­ters, because the qual­i­ty of air purifi­ca­tion depends on them. It can be assumed that fil­ters mat­ter only for mod­els with recir­cu­la­tion. But in fact, in devices oper­at­ing in the air exhaust mode, fil­ters are installed so that the inter­nal parts of the device itself, the air duct and the ven­ti­la­tion duct are not con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed.

There are two types of fil­ters- grease and coal. As the name implies, the for­mer puri­fy the air of grease, soot andt.etc., that is, they are strug­gling with the bulk of the dirt. They are installed in all hoods, regard­less of the type of device. Dis­pos­able fil­ters made of syn­thet­ic mate­r­i­al have to be changed peri­od­i­cal­ly (grad­u­al­ly appear­ing col­ored icons sig­nal their con­t­a­m­i­na­tion). This is not very con­ve­nient, so they are rare. Reusable are made of alu­minum foil or mesh (more pre­cise­ly, from sev­er­al lay­ers of per­fo­rat­ed alu­minum sheets). They are designed to last the life of the hood and should be washed in warm water with deter­gent or in the dish­wash­er as they get dirty. If the fil­ters are not cleaned in time, the load on the engine will increase and the per­for­mance of the device will decrease. Atsome hoods- e.g. HZTB 9 IX (Hot­point-Aris­ton), KDV907X (Smeg, both- Italy), DD 950 P (Goren­je, Slove­nia)- there is a fil­ter replace­ment indi­ca­tor, thanks to which you do not have to remem­ber when the last clean­ing was done.

Pho­to 22 Eli­ca

Pho­to 23 Cata

Pho­to 24 Tur­boair

Pho­to 25 Tur­boair

22–25.The pop­u­lar­i­ty of “island” hoods is grow­ing along with the spread of “island” kitchens. Such mod­els are usu­al­ly the most expen­sive and pow­er­ful. Attach them to the ceil­ing. An exam­ple would be the Isla Sig­ma DT4 (Cata) mod­els(23), AD 6900IS(24) and DH 1050IS(25) (Tur­boair).

The main pur­pose of car­bon fil­ters- odor con­trol. Such dis­pos­able fil­ters are installed in recir­cu­lat­ing hoods in addi­tion to grease fil­ters. Inside the fil­ter car­tridge are acti­vat­ed car­bon par­ti­cles that neu­tral­ize odors. Peri­od­i­cal­ly, these par­ti­cles or the car­tridge itself must be replaced, which entails reg­u­lar costs (the fil­ter costs an aver­age of 200–500rub.).

Amaz­ing near

So, we have found that hoods dif­fer in design, body mate­r­i­al, air purifi­ca­tion method, per­for­mance andetc. In addi­tion, there are var­i­ous func­tions that dis­tin­guish cer­tain mod­els on the mar­ket or make devices more con­ve­nient.

Atmany mod­els (DWB 069751, Bosch; 9060DM, AEG-Elec­trolux) a resid­ual fan stroke is pro­vid­ed- after turn­ing off the stove, the hood con­tin­ues to work for about 10min with the low­est capac­i­ty to ensure that all odors are removed. There is also inter­val switch­ing, for exam­ple, device D4692XO (Neff, Ger­many) peri­od­i­cal­ly turns on for a few min­utes to ven­ti­late the room. A pleas­ant sur­prise will be a func­tion that allows you to smooth­ly increase or decrease the inten­si­ty of light (its name may vary from man­u­fac­tur­er to man­u­fac­tur­er).

Some hoods lit­er­al­ly learned to “feel”. So, in some Eli­ca mod­els, the tech­nol­o­gy of built-in auto­mat­ic sen­sors AST (ther­mal, tem­per­a­ture and humid­i­ty) is used. Ther­mal reacts to an increase in tem­per­a­ture in the zone of burn­ers, tem­per­a­ture- on the room tem­per­a­ture, and the air humid­i­ty is con­trolled near the hob. Thanks to these sen­sors, it is no longer nec­es­sary to man­u­al­ly adjust the per­for­mance of the hood- it will change itself depend­ing on the type and inten­si­ty of evap­o­ra­tion. There are also hoods that allow you to check the weath­er fore­cast. For exam­ple, the Antarc­ti­ca Meteo (Eli­ca) dis­plays tem­per­a­ture infor­ma­tion from an exter­nal home weath­er sta­tion. Far­ther- even more seri­ous­ly. The On Air hood (Hot­point-Aris­ton) is equipped with a Blue­tooth sys­tem that allows you to make voice calls and com­mu­ni­cate hands-free with­out a phone. ATThe LC 956BC60R device (Siemens, Ger­many) is equipped with a TV, a device for watch­ing DVDs and lis­ten­ing to CDs. You can also watch TV shows with the Avro­ra TV (Kro­na) hood, which has a built-in LCD TV.

Let’s go to the store

We advise you to test the hood in the store: press the but­tons, lis­ten to the noise, see what kind of light­ing the lamps give, you can try to replace the car­bon fil­ter. Now in stores a decent selec­tion of hoods. Com­pa­ny Mod­els Pre­sent­ed Faber (Italy), Gagge­nau (Ger­many), AEG-Elec­troluxCata, Eli­ca, Elikor, Hot­point-Aris­ton, Kro­na, Neff, Siemens andoth­ers

Pho­to 26 Cata

Pho­to 27 Faber

Pho­to 28 Faber

26.The ele­gant Art Nou­veau hood Mishel 5P (Cata) with peri­met­ric air intake is equipped with a remote con­trol.
27–28.“Island” hoods Cas­sio­pea Iso­la(27) and Cylin­dra(28) (Faber) cylin­dri­cal shapes will cer­tain­ly dec­o­rate your kitchen.

The price depends pri­mar­i­ly on the type of device. The cheap­est- flat (aver­age 1500–4500rub.). A fire­place hood with a sim­ple design, with­out tech­ni­cal frills, can be bought for 4500rubles, but on aver­age wor­thy copies cost 8–12thou­sandrub. If you want to buy a unit from a rep­utable man­u­fac­tur­er with an inter­est­ing design, elec­tron­ic addi­tions or an “island” or cor­ner hood, get ready to part with 15–20thou­sandrub. There are also pre­mi­um mod­els for 50thou­sandrub. and even more expen­sive- after all, as you know, there is no lim­it to per­fec­tion.

The edi­tors thank the com­pa­nies Elec­trolux“BSH “House­hold appli­ances”, “Cavent­dom” and “Cam­paneco”, as well as per­son­al­ly Vladimir Alexan­drovich Titov, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of the Depart­ment of House­hold Appli­ances of the Russ­ian State Uni­ver­si­ty of Tourism and Ser­vice, for their help in prepar­ing the mate­r­i­al.

The mate­r­i­al was pre­pared based on the results of a read­er sur­vey on the action web­site “We cre­ate new ideas.

• Source: Ideas for Your Home Magazine#134

Mate­r­i­al pre­pared

Tatyana Popo­va