Vented vs Recirculating Cooker Hoods | Pros, Cons & Advice

Vented vs Recirculating Cooker Hoods | Pros, Cons & Advice 💨
In this video, I explain what vented (ducted) and recirculating (ductless) cooker hoods are as well as their pros and cons. Plus, I answer some popular questions I get asked about this cooker hood/extractor topic.

📖​ Chapters:
➤ 0:00 Vented vs Recirculating Cooker Hoods
➤ 0:51 What Is Vented (ducted) Extraction?
➤ 2:29 Advantages Of Vented Extraction
➤ 3:13 Disadvantages Of Vented Extraction
➤ 3:45 What Is Recirculating (ductless) Extraction?
➤ 4:43 Advantages Of Recirculating Extraction
➤ 5:22 Disadvantages Of Recirculating Extraction
➤ 6:07 How Often Do You Need To Clean Grease Filters?
➤ 6:57 Do You Need Carbon Filters?
➤ 8:10 Which is better, Vented or Recirculating?

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[kitchinsider]

I get asked about this topic all the time. So I wanted to put a video together explaining it as best I could. Not the most glamorous video but hopefully a helpful one! 👍

[gailashby]

Great informative kitchen advice- yet again! Just finished my new kitchen installation. Your videos gave me so much good advice with the planning and design. Thank you!

[eDavy]

In new housing builds in Belgium you have to install a mechanical venting system (like system D) in your house. So the recirculated air from the cooker hood will also be cleaned by the venting system of the house. You even get bad energy points when you get an inspection when you use a vented hood that sucks the air out.

[rosielee]

I have just been researching about changing the filters on a cooker hood all night on Google and here. This video just popped up and so informative and now I understand the cooking hoods system more. Thank you!😅😊

[knightbeat]

This is very helpful! Short, precise and comprehensive!

[fissshh]

Thanks mate. You’ve helped me made a decision to go with the recirculating extractor fan because my cooker is located in a bad position which doesn’t have access to outside wall. Plus I’m to lazy to cut a hole and do all the work 😂

[rizwanshafique]

Finally someone has explained things the right way

[neilpickup]

I have had both types. Once even in the same house!

When I moved in there was a switchable extractor fan set to recirculate, and while it did reduce the smells, the kitchen was far too hot when cooking. Even with snow on the ground, the kitchen window had to be open, so far open in fact that on more than one occasion the gas flame was blown out when on minimum!

I had the trunking fitted, the carbon filter removed and the lever switched to extraction - what a transformation!

My kitchen was no longer a sauna.

Since the unit was the same, I would consider this to be a perfect demonstration of how much better extraction is over recirculation. Admittedly it was quite a small kitchen 3.4m x 1.9m appropriately, but my parents were so impressed that they had theirs changed over too.

While their dining kitchen was over twice the size of mine, and never a sauna, they still needed the window ajar in the winter - much wider in the summer along with the door to the outside opening.

Although there is inevitable heat loss with extraction, my experience was that this was more than compensated for by additional heat from cooking.

While both were gas hobs, with an electric oven in my case, and a gas oven/grill at my parents, I now live in an apartment with a single living area which is probably 2-3 times the size of my parents kitchen. My ovens are still electric, but the hob is now induction so it produces far less waste heat than the old gas ones did.

Even so, after cooking a meal, the room is warmer than it was before, so I really have difficulty imagining what it would take for extracted heat to ever become a disadvantage.

[alexthomson]

This is so so helpful! I now know I have a recuirculating hood. I thought the developers just hadn't connected any duct or flue to it. If you saw the standard of the build I live in you would understand. So shoddy. This has been a massive help to me. Thankyou!

[DragonFry]

Sixteen years with a recirculating hood and just finding out now there’s a filter that needs to be changed periodically. 😮

[odavies]

Something important to consider. Venting to outside creates negative pressure which can affect a chimneys draw so consider this if you have open fire, log burner etc.

[iamchickenthecat]

Thanks for the video. We bought a house and for the last 5 years we thought rangehood was vented into roof space . Until we watched this video and realised it is a recirculated!! 😅 Point being, we have been quite happy with the performance of the recirculated one, even to the point we thought it was as good as extracted 😂

[weschapman]

Have recently renovated my kitchen and had to replace a 20 odd year old slide-in JennAir stove with vented downdraft ventilation. In the US at this point options are limited to a straightforward replacement. In researching my options there were the usual high end suspects for consideration. They all required a separate downdraft system and a relocation of the oven to a wall unit.

However, I came across an unknown brand called Elica which got my attention as it combined induction with downdraft in only an 8.25” depth with a slim duct exit to the rear allowing for two large drawers under the unit that are only 4” shy of full counter depth.

Now that the unit is installed I must say that any misgivings I had about the brand have started to subside and the delight of the inclusion of many features of the other brands makes the decision a no brainer. Especially when looking at the power ratings of the 4 cooking zones. Perhaps the only observation might be that the number of heat settings is limited to 9 plus a Power level. Other more expensive manufacturers seem to offer a broader array of heat settings but thus far I’ve seen no reason to have such small incremental setting given how quickly the heat and pan respond to changes in a setting.

[altaibro]

Bro, you are a life saver! This is what I was searching for!

[shadowf]

Very informative but, Two things. Charcoal filters does not filter smell as good as a vented system. BUT a Plasma or plasmex filter is as effective as a vented system and keeps the heat inside. A far more better alternative even thou the initial cost is higher. Building a new house with a exhaust air heat pump. No way I'm letting the warm air out. Installing a Plasma filter in the cooker hood and won't even install the chimney for ventilation. I will install a chimney for the fireplace thou. Livin in scandinavia so low heating costs are essential.

[silviaventura]

This is my first time with recirculating hood, I didn't know that existed!, Is very noisy, I going to watch out for the carbon filter, thanks for video.

[lauramiller]

Very informative! I have been debating the vented/non-vented has I plan my remodel. This provides an excellent overview and answers many questions. Currently I have no vent. (Apparently that is common in my neck of the woods.) Thank you!

[beeclair]

Thank you so much for this video, it's very comprehensive and you have just made my research a lot less stressful

[juliegardner]

I am glad I watched this, very informative and helpful to a new user of opened kitchen doors/windows in the past. Thank-you.

[susana]

Another well done video.❤
Something not everyone thinks about when redoing their kitchen.