7 Benefits of a Kitchen Range Hood
Although largely overlooked, a range hood is actually one of the most important appliances in the kitchen. They are designed to remove odors, heat and smoke that can occur while cooking. If you do not have a range hood, we strongly recommend installing one. Apollo Heating and Air Conditioning of Minneapolis, MN, shares the following 7 benefits of kitchen range hoods.
- Improved Air Quality. Perhaps the most important job of the range hood is to improve the air quality of your kitchen. Hoods are designed to remove odors, smoke, grease and other pollutants that are released into the air while cooking. The polluted air is sucked through a motorized fan and is either carried outside or filtered and re-circulated. Without a range hood, you and your family will find yourself breathing in the aftermath of dinner, causing possible eye, nose, and throat irritation. In addition, vent hoods help prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. Studies show elevated levels of carbon monoxide in kitchens caused by using the stove without turning on the range hood.
- Stay Comfortable. Cooking produces a lot of heat which can make a kitchen quite uncomfortable. Another great benefit of range hoods is the removal of excess heat and steam, providing a more pleasant cooking environment for the chef and the rest of the family.
- Less Kitchen Odor. Nothing smells better when you are hungry than a great meal cooking. However, cooking smells can linger long after dinner is over. Turning on your range hood helps suck out unpleasant odors and stuffiness, leaving your home smelling fresh.
- Easier Cleanup. Without a range hood, grease and excess moisture from cooking can create a sticky film that is difficult to clean. Using a ventilation hood will help prevent annoying greasy buildup and cut your cleaning time in half. Proper ventilation also helps to prevent the growth of bacteria and mold, a definite plus for anyone with allergies or asthma.
- An overhead range hood offers additional lighting for food preparation and cooking.
The proper lighting also makes clean-up easier and ensures removal of all that hard to see grease and grime. Lighting features can range from basic to state-of-the-art, depending on which model you choose. - Stylish Upgrade. Range hoods are not only practical, but can also be a stylish addition to your kitchen. These days range hoods come in a wide variety of designs. Shop around to find the perfect fit for your budget, kitchen space, and personal style.
- A Good Investment. Real estate experts agree—if you are trying to sell your home make sure your kitchen is up to date. An attractive kitchen with modern appliances adds major resale value to your home. Choosing the right range hood can make a big difference in the look and feel of your kitchen. You will more than likely see a good return on this investment.
The proper lighting also makes clean-up easier and ensures removal of all that hard to see grease and grime. Lighting features can range from basic to state-of-the-art, depending on which model you choose.Apollo Heating and Air Conditioning is well known for furnace repair in Minneapolis but also offers kitchen hood venting services. Feel free to contact us with any further questions regarding the benefits of installing a range hood in your home.
Can This Kickstarter Gadget Eliminate Your Range Hood Envy?
The unsung hero of the kitchen is the range hood. This appliance — an over-the-stove fan that seamlessly blends in with the rest of your kitchen’s decor — makes a huge difference in the overall tidiness of your living space. Range hoods suck up smoke and odors, along with the oily residue that fills the air when frying foods.
For nearly eight years, while living in a studio apartment in Los Angeles, I deeply coveted one. I cooked with oil a lot, and thus fought a never-ending battle against the sticky film that seemed to coat everything in my kitchen. Unfortunately, no option existed on the market for a portable range hood that could be used by an apartment dweller like me.
But that day has finally arrived. The AirHood, a Kickstarter and Indiegogo darling with over 4,000 backers, has debuted as the world’s first portable range hood. It promises to reduce smoke and odors, grease and the formation of oil film — the latter being the bane of my existence for all those years.
I’ve since left my perpetually-sticky West Coast apartment behind for a new one in Connecticut that features a range hood, but I still had to test out the AirHood for myself to see if the old me — and others out there losing the battle against a greasy kitchen — could improve their lives by picking up one of these gadgets. AirHood models come in two versions, one wired and one rechargeable wireless option, and I gave both a spin to see if the AirHood truly is the kitchen savior it appears to be.
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What’s Good About the AirHood
It Looks Great
I am a big-time homer when it comes to Mid-Century modern and space-age designs, so I immediately fell in love with the AirHood the moment I saw it. It looks like a charming little 1960s robot, with a round head sitting atop a stout, cone-like pedestal. It comes in two colors: a white option that will work with any decor (and will likely be the more popular option), and my preference, a retro bold orange color that draws even more attention to this funky-looking little appliance.
Admittedly, if the AirHood did what it claimed to do and I didn’t have a range hood, I would pick one up just for the functionality even if it was the ugliest thing I’d ever seen. But the fact that it might be the best-looking thing on my kitchen counter really sweetens the pot.
It’s Very Good at Sucking Up Oil
My main issue with the lack of a range hood in my previous apartment was the oil film that would show up everywhere. It was inescapable, and a real pain to clean. In testing the AirHood, my main goal was to see how it performed at sucking up oil — and I’m happy to say that I came away impressed.
The AirHood has a replaceable charcoal filter on the backside for filtering out odors and smoke, while the front of the device has a removable and washable stainless steel mesh oil filter. And let me tell you, that filter can haul in some oil.
The AirHood’s fan is pretty powerful, spinning at 5,000 rpm in the highest of its three settings on both models (though the wired version does seem to put out a bit more power).
I was amazed to see the amount of oil collected on the front filter after just one meal. It was enough to coat a paper towel — meaning that if the AirHood wasn’t there absorbing that oil, all of that grease would have ended up settling elsewhere in my kitchen. You’ll still end up with some oil splatter on your stove, but that’s to be expected, as even a range hood won’t prevent that.
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It’s Unobtrusive
The AirHood leaves a pretty small footprint; there should be room for one on most kitchen counters. Both versions of the device are 13.1 inches tall (15.1 inches with the optional Base Boost), 8.7 inches wide and 5.5 inches deep. This compact size makes the AirHood easy to incorporate in your cooking routine; not once during my testing did I feel like the AirHood was in my way.
The one piece of the AirHood that makes it a tiny bit cumbersome is the carrying handle. Both versions of the AirHood have a metal handle that folds behind the device, and is wider than the body.
I found this handle unnecessary, as the AirHood is plenty easy to carry just by grabbing its thin base and picking it up (the AirHood weighs around four pounds, with the wireless version weighing about 1/10th of a pound more).
What We Don’t Like About the AirHood
Its Range Is Limited, As Are the Stoves It Works With
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There is one notable advantage traditional range hoods have over the AirHood: positioning. Because they live directly above your stove, range hoods are in the prime spot to soak up all of the smoke, steam, odors and oil that naturally rise up from your pots and pans. The AirHood, meanwhile, has to be positioned next to your stove. From there, it does a great job of absorbing whatever’s coming off of the pan right in front of it, but if you’ve got another pot cooking on the opposite side of the stove, the AirHood isn’t going to help you out much there.
That said, at the end of the AirHood isn’t really competing against range hoods; it’s meant for those for whom a true range hood isn’t an option.
A bigger limiting factor lies in its construction: because its body is made of plastic, AirHood is not recommended for use with a gas stove, as an open flame near the device can potentially melt or otherwise damage it. This wasn’t an issue for me during my testing — I have an electric stove — but it’s going to be a deal breaker for a lot of potential customers (including myself in my old LA apartment, which had an ancient gas stove).
It’s Loud
The AirHood has three different power settings — 3,100 rpm, 4,000 rpm and 5,000 rpm — but in my testing, I found that only the most powerful setting produced the desired result. The first setting, which is extremely quiet, didn’t seem to do much of anything at all; the second setting provided some reduction in visible fumes, but not enough.
The downside of having to operate the AirHood on its highest setting is that it’s very loud — particularly the wired version, which almost sounds like a box fan. To my ear, it seems to be slightly louder than my actual range hood.
I often like to listen to podcasts while cooking, but having the AirHood running on its highest setting basically made that impossible to do.
It Could Be Better at Filtering Smoke & Odors
The AirHood is great at eliminating grease from the air, and it also proved better at pulling steam out of the air than my range hood (I had the two engage in a little tug of war over a boiling pot of water). But if there’s one area of ventilation where the AirHood disappoints, it’s with smoke and odor. The appliance certainly removes some smoke and odor from the air, but I found that meals that were particularly smoky or smelly would still fill the kitchen with odors, even with the AirHood on its highest setting.
Alternatives to the AirHood
As the world’s first portable range hood, there aren’t really any alternatives on the market. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have choices, as you’ll have to decide between the wireless and wired versions of the AirHood. The wired version definitely offers more power, but at the cost of being considerably louder.
Its cord is long, which is theoretically good for moving the AirHood around your stove, but in reality just leads to a giant cord resting on your counter at all times.
All told, the wireless version would be my pick. Although it’s slightly less powerful than the wired version, the difference in performance really isn’t all that noticeable. It’s also quieter, and the ability to easily move it around your stove with no wires getting in the way is super convenient — plus, it looks cleaner, too. The battery lasted for several weeks of dinners for me, though having the battery die in the middle of cooking a meal is admittedly a bummer — and not something you’ll ever have to worry about with the wired version.
AirHood: The Verdict
If you live in an apartment without a range hood and have an electric stove, then it’s worth buying the AirHood. It looks great (people will ask about it), it will leave your kitchen a lot cleaner, and it’s easy to use. Sure, it could be a little quieter and it won’t free your kitchen of odors entirely, but using an AirHood is a million times better than the alternative of cooking in a dirty and smelly kitchen with no air filtration at all.
It’s also fairly affordable. AirHood is currently taking preorders, with the first units shipping out later this month. The AirHood Wired is priced at $140, while the AirHood Wireless goes for $180. Both options can also be purchased as a bundle that includes the Base Boost and replacement charcoal and oil filters. The wired bundle is currently on sale for $160 (MSRP $190), and the wireless bundle has a sale price of $200 (MSRP $230).
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Johnny Brayson is Gear Patrol’s associate home editor.
Muffle furnaces with exhaust. Muffle electric furnace SNOL.
Muffle laboratory electric furnaces SNOL with an exhaust hood with a useful volume of 3 to 12 liters are designed for analytical work with various materials and heat treatment (heating, hardening, firing) in air at a temperature of 50 to 1250°C. The working chamber of electric furnaces is made of a ceramic muffle, which is heated by iron-chromium-aluminum wire heaters made in the form of a spiral.
Heating in the SNOL furnace with a hood for 3 and 6 liters is carried out from three sides – the top of the muffle and side walls, and in models for 10 and 12 liters from four sides – side walls, top and bottom.
The manufacturer SNOL provided for the production of an electric furnace of each volume in two versions, differing from each other in heaters. In the first variant, they are completely pressed into ceramics and the temperature of use of such furnaces is up to 1050°C. In the second case, the heaters are located in the grooves, and therefore the temperature of using such furnaces is up to 1250°C. I note that SNOL 12/12-V with a hood is produced only with a temperature of 1250 ° C.
When heating products and materials, accompanied by the release of gases, combustion products and fumes, it is necessary to have an extractor in an electric furnace to quickly remove these harmful products from the working chamber. Such SNOL furnaces are equipped with an exhaust device (an abbreviation with the letter B at the end of the electric furnace brand, for example, SNOL 3/10-V, 10/11-V, etc.
). The resulting smoke or evaporation in the chamber furnace is removed through an opening in the upper part of the working chamber of the electric furnace. Such muffle furnaces are recommended to be installed in a fume hood. If, when choosing stoves, the temperature in them is too high for you, then you can take a closer look at drying cabinets with a hood.
Temperature control of electric furnaces is carried out by digital electronic temperature controllers, which allow to carry out technological operations with high accuracy of temperature maintenance. The SNOL muffle furnace with an exhaust hood is equipped with a thermostat with the ability to set the duration of heating and holding.
At the request of the client, electric furnaces can be equipped with programmable thermostats.
These muffle furnaces are not made by hand (manually), but are assembled on automated factory lines, which ensures high quality of products.
| Semi-closed heating elements | ||||
| Model SNOL | Volume, l | Dimensions of the working chamber, WxLxH, mm | External dimensions, WxLxH, mm | power, kWt |
| 3/11-B | 3 | 150x200x100 | 425x610x650 |
1. 8
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| 6/11-B | 6 | 180x270x130 | 450x680x675 | 2.2 |
| 6/12-V | 6 | 180x270x130 | 450x680x675 | 2.2 |
| 10/11-B | 10 | 200x300x180 | 470x700x725 | 4.0 |
| 12/12-B | 12 | 200×350×180 | 495×730×765 | 4.3 |
| Closed heating elements | ||||
| 3/10-B | 3 | 150x200x100 | 425x610x650 |
1. 8
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| 6/10-B | 6 | 180x270x130 | 450x680x675 | 2.2 |
| 10/10-B | 10 | 200x300x180 | 470x700x725 | 4.0 |
| 17/10-V | 17 | 300x300x180 | 750x750x650 | 4.5 |
Muffle Furnace SNOL 6/11-B (with hood)
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It is very important for the heating of materials, accompanied by the release of vapors, products of sublimation or combustion, the presence of an exhaust hood to remove these products from the working chamber.
Muffle electric furnaces are produced, equipped with an exhaust device (modification with the letter B).
It is very important for the heating of materials, accompanied by the release of vapors, products of sublimation or combustion, the presence of a hood to remove these products from the working chamber. Muffle electric furnaces are produced, equipped with an exhaust device (modification with the letter B).
Laboratory muffle electric furnaces SNOL with a useful volume of 3 to 10 liters are designed for analytical work with various materials and heat treatment (heating, hardening, firing) in air up to a temperature of 1150°C.
Muffle Furnace for Analytical Works and Heat Treatment of Materials
When it is necessary to process materials in air to a temperature of 1150°C or to heat materials accompanied by the release of combustion products, a muffle furnace with an exhaust device, with its ease of use, is the best solution for any kind of work. State-of-the-art fibrous lining materials reliably protect the elements of the furnace, and high technical characteristics ensure that each of our muffle furnaces will perform at the highest level.
Analytical work and heat treatment of materials in air up to a temperature of 1150°C.
Ceramic muffle – an easily replaceable block with built-in heaters.
Wear-resistant corundum tile to protect the bottom of the muffle.
Modern fibrous environmentally friendly and energy efficient lining materials.
Metal housing with polymer powder coating.
Special technological shelf in stainless steel at the doorway.
Microprocessor temperature controller-programmer with digital indication.
Technical characteristics of laboratory muffle electric furnaces SNOL
Volume of muffle furnace SNOL 6/11-V (with exhaust), l – 6
Max. temp., ° С – 1150
Set. power, kW – 2.2
Eg., V – 220
Working chamber: Width / Length / Height – 180-270-130
Dimensions of the muffle furnace SNOL 6/11-V (with hood): Width / Length / Height – 450-600-545
Weight of the muffle furnace SNOL 6/11-V (with exhaust), kg – 40
Muffle laboratory electric furnaces SNOL with an exhaust hood with a useful volume of 3 to 12 liters are designed for analytical work with various materials and heat treatment (heating, hardening, firing) in air at a temperature of 50 to 1250°C.
The working chamber of electric furnaces is made of a ceramic muffle, which is heated by iron-chromium-aluminum wire heaters made in the form of a spiral. Heating in the SNOL furnace with a hood for 3 and 6 liters is carried out from three sides – the top of the muffle and side walls, and in models for 10 and 12 liters from four sides – side walls, top and bottom.
The manufacturer of the muffle furnace SNOL SNOL 6/11-V (with a hood) provided for the production of an electric furnace of each volume in two versions, differing from each other in heaters. In the first variant, they are completely pressed into ceramics and the temperature of use of such furnaces is up to 1050°C. In the second case, the heaters are located in the grooves, and therefore the temperature of using such furnaces is up to 1250°C. I note that SNOL 12/12-V with a hood is produced only with a temperature of 1250 ° C.
When heating products and materials, accompanied by the release of gases, products of combustion and fumes, it is necessary to have an extractor in an electric furnace to quickly remove these harmful products from the working chamber.
Such SNOL furnaces are equipped with an exhaust device (an abbreviation with the letter B at the end of the electric furnace brand, for example, SNOL 6 / 11-V (with a hood). The resulting smoke or evaporation in the chamber furnace is removed through an opening in the upper part of the working chamber of the electric furnace. Such muffle furnaces are recommended Install in a fume hood If, when choosing stoves, the temperature in them is too high for you, then you can look at drying cabinets with a fume hood.0003 Temperature control of electric furnaces is carried out by digital electronic thermostats, which allow to carry out technological operations with high accuracy of temperature maintenance. The SNOL muffle furnace with an exhaust hood is equipped with a thermostat with the ability to set the duration of heating and exposure.
At the request of the client, electric furnaces can be equipped with programmable thermostats.
Muffle Furnace SNOL 6/11-V (with hood) is a unique heating device, which was originally intended for special heating of specific materials.
Moreover, the materials are heated completely and up to a certain temperature, which is set in advance by you.
It is also worth paying your attention to the fact that the basis of this furnace is a certain muffle, which is a special protection of the processed material, as well as the muffle is the main working space of the muffle furnace.
The working chambers of currently produced laboratory ovens have a volume of three to a couple of hundred liters, depending on this, their execution can be desktop or floor. Some models include exhaust systems, including forced ones – this is necessary when working with substances that evaporate or smoke when heated.
Laboratory ovens provide heating over a wide temperature range, up to 1700 °C. At the same time, digital thermostats / programmers allow you to set a temperature change schedule with high accuracy. In simpler models, conventional analog thermostats are used, they simply keep the temperature at a given level.
Temperature uniformity inside the oven chamber is achieved by uniform distribution of heating elements over its surface (it has the shape of a cylinder or parallelepiped), up to the door.
Heating blocks can be quickly changed. For thermal insulation of laboratory furnaces, fibrous materials are used to replace aluminosilicon refractories; this significantly reduces the mass of equipment and its thermal inertia.
Additionally available
Laboratory table for the furnace
crucible tongs
heat-resistant gloves made of Kevlar, fiberglass
porcelain crucibles, corundum crucibles
fume hood for muffle furnace
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