On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:47:59 -0700 (PDT), Martin Pentreath wrote:

On 21 Oct, 11:46, "GB" wrote:
I'd like to buy a recirculating cooker hood that can just go under a line of
wall cupboards - so heopfullt something a few cms thick. Are these
available? The kitchen fitter said that they all intrude into the cupboard
above, but I was fairly sure that's wrong. Can I just check with the gurus
here, pls?

I always assumed the recirculating ones were there primarily for
decoration rather than function (the big flashy chimney ones
typically). If you want one which doesn't extract steam and fumes, and
which you can't really see either, I can't help wondering why you'd
bother?

The recirculating ones use a grease filter to remove grease and a charcoal
filter to remove odours and you replace them every so often (so just like a
deep fat fryer really) - they're not very good, but they're better than
nothing I suppose. We've just redecorated the kitchen and I've taken the
opportunity to put a vent through the wall, remove the charcoal filter and
switch the hood to extraction mode.

SteveW