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| Range Hoods Tips: Understanding Quality Filter Systems on The Range Hoods |
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As you shop around for range hoods, you need to pay close attention to what happens with the grease. This just does not work ... simple aluminum mesh filters catch some of the grease, which heats up as you cook and drips back down onto the stove top.
You will never see flat aluminum mesh filters in a restaurant for a good reason - grease dripping back down onto the stove top can cause a fire.
All of our range hoods adress the grease filtering/catching issue one of two ways: 1) grease catchment cups or 2) Charcoal filters. Grease catchment cups are clear plastic "dishes" mounted below the cone shaped mesh filters.
As the filter catches grease, it heats up and drains down into the oil catchment cups.
When you are ready to clean the filters, you simply unscrew the cap, remove the filter assembly, rinse and wash (dishwasher safe).
Range Hoods' Charcoal filters use a series of inverted cup shaped "baffles", which cool the moist greasy air as it flows though, condensing/catching oil and then allowing the grease and moisture to flow down into the lower trough (where it is held until cleaning).
Recent popularity of the commercial look in residential kitchens has created a very high demand for baffle filters. The extra expanse of stainless steel underneath the ranger hoods does make for a more professional, industrial appearance.
Performance wise, baffle filters allow slightly better air flow at the expense of trapping a bit less grease, but the difference is too slight to consider as a factor in your choice of hood model.
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