Multiple extractor fans for smelly foods in open plan kitchen

[willy fixit]

When I'm cooking I want the guest to smell it and get their juices going. I'm with Andy78 in that It's an impossible task.
When I fry up a mackerel for breakfast I do it outside on the portable gas burner. And pretend I'm the hunter gatherer! (In truth it's my wife who hunts and gathers in Sainsburys!)

 

[Wilko]

Hi - just sharing what I've done at home, for what it's worth. House had a largish domestic cooker hood with 150mm outlet but air was recirculated through filters. This just wasn't doing the job, so I created a path out for 150mm metal flue and added a 150mm in line mixed flow fan. This setup now works well .

 

[telectrix]

When I fry up a mackerel for breakfast I do it outside

if you fried a mackerel here, you'd stay outside.disgusting,smelly,inedible, yuk. same with kippers and other creatures that fornicate in water.

 

[willy fixit]

When I fry up a mackerel for breakfast I do it outside

if you fried a mackerel here, you'd stay outside.disgusting,smelly,inedible, yuk. same with kippers and other creatures that fornicate in water.

Don't like fish then Tel?

 

[telectrix]

i'll cross the street to avoid walking past a fish butcher's shop.

 

[Octopus]

Don't like fish then Tel?

Unless its covered in batter!

 

[telectrix]

Unless its covered in batter!

it's still a bloody fish though. same as a trump is still an idiot even when covered in a hairpiece.

 

[alitech]

Hi - just sharing what I've done at home, for what it's worth. House had a largish domestic cooker hood with 150mm outlet but air was recirculated through filters. This just wasn't doing the job, so I created a path out for 150mm metal flue and added a 150mm in line mixed flow fan. This setup now works well .

Thanks for this, would like to learn more about your setup. So you had a circulating hood? Where did and how did you create a path out?

Can you show me what sort of fan you installed?

 

[Midwest]

Doooh hate it when my bestest is just pasted by, story of my life.

 

[PEG]

Hi - just sharing what I've done at home, for what it's worth. House had a largish domestic cooker hood with 150mm outlet but air was recirculated through filters. This just wasn't doing the job, so I created a path out for 150mm metal flue and added a 150mm in line mixed flow fan. This setup now works well .

Sounds groovy have you ever ----ed a pancake and wondered where it went?

 

[Wilko]

Yes a circulating hood. Finding a path out may not be easy, which was why they'd not bothered in my case, I suppose. Metal ducting is better for this application (in my humble opinion) as its fire proof and a lot harder for the mice to eat. Use rigid metal pipe if you can, but there is a flexible metal duct if you need it.
Sorry but the site is not letting me upload pics just now. Perhaps search on Manrose 150mm mixed flow fan and you'll get an idea of it, all 500m3 per hour

 

[Wilko]

Sounds groovy have you ever ****ed a pancake and wondered where it went?

No, but the cat flap now flaps

 

[alitech]

You could consider a re circulating fan hood above hob/oven, and a separate extraction somewhere else.

I would think about contacting the fan manufactures, Xpelair, Vent Axia etc, and ask for some advice on your intended project.

Absolutely not ignored. I was trying to read everyone of them and responding to the helpful ones.

Do you think getting a regular extractor fan and putting an in line mixed flow fan will double or triple the extraction rate? Hence becoming a lot more efficient?

 

[alitech]

Yes a circulating hood. Finding a path out may not be easy, which was why they'd not bothered in my case, I suppose. Metal ducting is better for this application (in my humble opinion) as its fire proof and a lot harder for the mice to eat. Use rigid metal pipe if you can, but there is a flexible metal duct if you need it.
Sorry but the site is not letting me upload pics just now. Perhaps search on Manrose 150mm mixed flow fan and you'll get an idea of it, all 500m3 per hour

Do you think getting a regular extractor fan and putting an in line mixed flow fan will double or triple the extraction rate? Hence becoming a lot more efficient?

The extension is being planned right now.. so I have freedom to do whatever

 

[StephenRowley]

I think snowhead right to do what you want to achieve needs professional advice. People on here are sparkies not ventilation engineers and while there some good suggestions. There's so much to kitchen ventilation you really need someone who really know what their doing. Venting a kitchen gets a bit more complicated because the air can be greasy not just damp. So stuff need to built in way to deal with these unique factors.