100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

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  • December 6, 2007 at 9:29 am #32782
    fruitbat
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    Hi folks, looking for a bit of advice from you pros please, since the washing machine crowd were very helpful!

    We’re buying a 100cm range cooker, because there’s a 100cm space in our kitchen, but the choice of 100cm hoods isn’t that great (we don’t really want stainless steel). Is there any reason we shouldn’t have a 90cm hood, of which there are many more available?

    I’d also really appreciate any advice on which hood manufacturers to avoid/favour as we’d like a slightly cheaper one than the ‘matching’ hood from whichever range we go for.

    We’re currently wavering between a Falcon and Britannia duel fuel range, but I am just curious as to whether the Aga Masterchef and Falcon 1000 are built on the same ‘chassis’ – specs seem remarkably similar, except for the hob.

    Thanks in advance

    Fruitbat

    December 6, 2007 at 10:34 am #236382
    Martin
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    Re: 100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

    With any gas hob it is always best to have as large a corresponding cooker hood with the fastest extraction rate possible. Recirculatory hoods are not at all satisfactory for this type of application, full external venting is necessary. Choice as to which is a personal thing really but Bosch are pretty good. 😉

    I personally have an Elica built-in hood (cheap and cheerful) but has worked faithfully for over 10 years with no probs. Sucks the steam vapour out like a Dyson it does (but with none of the racket 🙂 )

    HTH?

    December 6, 2007 at 12:14 pm #236383
    wsts
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    Re: 100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

    fruitbat wrote:
    We’re currently wavering between a Falcon and Britannia duel fuel range, but I am just curious as to whether the Aga Masterchef and Falcon 1000 are built on the same ‘chassis’ – specs seem remarkably similar, except for the hob.

    Thanks in advance

    FruitbatYes they are, and both great cookers too, Personally I prefer the look of the falcon though.

    December 6, 2007 at 1:33 pm #236384
    fruitbat
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    Re: 100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

    Martin – looking at some of the hoods available i.e. the ones with glass round the edge, the area that actually extracts is less than the total hood area, but I presume the good ones have more suction power to compensate for this. So if we got a kickarse 90cm hood, would this be as good as having a weedier but wider 100cm? (we will be ducting, luckily it’ll be on an outside wall)

    WSTS – thanks for that, I agree re falcon!

    December 6, 2007 at 2:10 pm #236385
    Martin
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    Re: 100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

    fruitbat wrote:the area that actually extracts is less than the total hood area

    Indeed so but that will not have any detrimental effect towards their performance as the smoke, steam and vapours will be sucked into the filtration area and away! 😉

    December 6, 2007 at 4:26 pm #236386
    fruitbat
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    Re: 100cm cooker – do we need a 100cm hood?

    Point taken. The reason I even felt brave enough to query this was because Aga sell a’Masterchef Hood’ which is 90cm wide, for a 100cm cooker. And it doesn’t have all enveloping glass bits round the edge to cover the gap.
    So if it’s ok for Aga, is it ok for me?

    Thanks again

    January 2, 2008 at 5:36 pm #236387
    fruitbat
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    Bumping, since still not sure what the right answer is – hood extraction rates seem to vary widely from 250-650 m3/hour so am wondering would a 90cm hood at the upper end of this range do as good a job as the 100cm hood with less extraction power?

    Thanks

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