Should you use your Cooker Hood?

The short answer is yes, but why are Cooker Hoods our friends?

When cooking, odours and vapours are being generated. Add cooking oil to the mix and it is not just moist air and food smells that get dispersed into the kitchen. We need to trap the fat content from the mix. Cooker Hoods have filters that do exactly that.

A charcoal filter must be used when the cooker hood is not ducted to an outside wall. The Cooker Hoods extracts the air from the kitchen, the charcoal filters trap the fat content and odours. The air is then recirculated back into the kitchen. Charcoal filters are effective for 4-6 months before needing replacement.

When the Cooker Hood has access to an outside wall the air is ducted out. In this case Cooker hoods with washable filters are the best alternative. They trap the sticky stuff just like charcoal filters do. The difference is that they are reusable. They can be washed in a dishwasher or by hand in hot water and the moist air and odours are ducted out.

If no cooker hood is being used at all, moist air, odours and fat content all get dispersed into the kitchen. This may not be visible at first but it is happening every time we cook. Over time this will become visible as a mix of dust and solidified fat build up.

It is better to use washable filters or replace charcoal filters than to have a build up of sticky stuff. It is easy to ignore this is happening, but life is too short to have to clean stubborn sticky stuff from walls, cupboards and ceilings. Cooker Hoods are our noisy friends. They stall the sticky, dusty solidified fat that builds up in our kitchens when we are not looking. At CKD we will help you select the most efficient, quietest, and right choice for your kitchen.