Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

With a good recirculation hood and daily cooktop use, you can change the activated carbon filter every six months. It costs money and is not necessarily sustainable.

The exhaust hood blows fat, odor, and water vapor outside. Which brings us to the topic, because cooking produces a lot of water vapor. If it is not expelled outside through the exhaust hood, it has to be ventilated out of the house.

You don't have to operate your exhaust hood at 500m³ per hour; there are generally several settings.

I find it strange how you can build a house and then use a recirculation hood, like in an apartment... the exhaust hood is exactly what keeps the kitchen clean, right? No more greasy, fatty air constantly being recirculated...

We have a cooker hood in the upper cabinet. Miele with a 12-fold filter, so far it could handle everything well even with minced meat and nothing smells. Previously in the apartment, we only had interior walls in the kitchen and a cheap recirculation hood, where most of the air passed by at the front.

You've been living there for 4 weeks, right? Just wait until the filters slowly get fuller ;)

By the way, it is also a misconception that the range hood is supposed to prevent odors. Its main purpose is to prevent vapor (water steam with fat droplets) from spreading everywhere. And at most to extract smoke (although smoke ideally should not occur during cooking). Odors cannot even be prevented by commercial exhaust systems, which have a multiple of the extraction capacity.

With a recirculation hood, the fat also ends up in the (fat) filter....

You have been living there for 4 weeks, right? Just wait until the filters slowly get fuller ;)

We have been using the hood for 4 years now, everything is fine. Don’t demonize things you don’t have, this is not a religious class.

As good extractor hood manufacturers, Berbel and Novy should also be mentioned.

And with the activated carbon filters, there are also variants with regeneration in the oven. As an alternative, a Plasmanorm filter should also be mentioned.