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Crybaby wrote:Looks super, Norm.
I'm jealous because the new stove hood I ordered in stainless steel won't be here until Wednesday. I guess that's not too bad considering I ordered it on Friday. I kept looking and looking until I found one I liked and had the bells and whistles I wanted. I had to pay a lot more than I expected, too.
I thought I'd found one but the depth was so much greater than the one I have up there now that I knew it would drive us crazy visually. Also so many of them had halogen bulbs which throw so much heat and use so much electricity! And though I know I could use LED bulbs in those receptacles, I kept reading that the LED bulbs that fit in there don't perform well near high heat; many reviewers said their LED lights worked fine as long as they kept them on the "low" setting or they flickered! My contractor said he would install it for $100, including cutting the duct in the wall to vent it outside, as I wanted one vented this time. The one I decided was too deep also had warnings about what a bear it was to install; one guy who said he was an electrical engineer even supplied a picture of his scabbed knuckles with his review saying the inside "works" had a lot of sharp edges and how it was even difficult for him to install!
But I learned a lot about stove hoods by doing all the research. I learned about CFMs (cubic feet per minute), with which the power or air movement for range hoods is measured. I also learned that if you use a grilling pan or have a high BTU burner or burners, you need more CFMs.
So I kept searching and finally found one I liked which came with LED modules built-in (with bulbs included!) and 400 CFMs when it's on high (it has three speeds). I liked the three levels of light from the LEDs, too, as we use the stove hood for a night light in the kitchen so now I won't worry about power use or the darn bulb burning out all the time!
After it's installed, I'll try to get Al to take a picture of it and email it to me so I can post it. That's the ONE thing that makes me want a smart phone -- the ability to take pics.
I'll bet you're still enjoying the heck out of that gas stove, too, Norm. As much as you cook, you really deserved it.
UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Nice looking exhaust hood Michelle!
You are right about the cfm / burner heat. The thing is, if you are using only one burner on high, the air flow is not going to inhibit any problems with the lighting or the motor that drives the fan.
The fan / hood I previously had before the kitchen remodel, was a rated 350 cfm at .25" WC static.
If I had 3 burners of the 4 burner cook top, ( gas ), the fan controller would automatically be indexed to the high speed so as to compensate for the increased entering temperature.
UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Another thing to remember, is that room temperature air will mix with the flame / burner heat, which helps cool the exhaust heat. Sometimes, We open a window slightly to allow make-up air to replace the exhausted air.
UNCLE JIMMY wrote:It's funny, but my one cousin Dee, covers the whole stove top with tin foil, AND....hahahahaha the exhaust hood so it doesn't get dirty!
NormM wrote:Looks nice. Mine also comes on automatically if the heat is high enough.
Crybaby wrote:NormM wrote:Looks nice. Mine also comes on automatically if the heat is high enough.
Yeah, they say it's a safety feature, Norm, but I did read in reviews of several older Broan hoods that it drove some people crazy, as it would come on and not go off for 10 minutes or so. A few people said they went back in and disabled the feature (shoot, we'd have to PAY someone to do that!) and others said they knew it would void the warranty but they disabled it anyway; one man even told you HOW to disable it I his review! I just love reading reviews as I find them so darn helpful, especially when they're really funny, like the engineer posting his "war wounds" from installing the unit EVERYONE said was a *itch!
But since I purchased a 2017 model hood (no reviews yet that I could find, just questions and answers on a couple of sites), I hope they've refined the feature a bit. As long as it doesn't come on when we're sitting down to eat dinner long after we stopped using the cooktop, I won't blow my top. I am hoping it will suck a lot of the oven heat out so I won't hesitate to use the oven as much in the middle of our sweltering summer. Plus the specs on the hood said that it would boost it up when fan was being used; it was the Broan guy who answered my online question who said it would turn itself on if necessary. I'm hoping he was just saying that since it's what the older units do.
I'm just tickled for you and your new stove, Norm. I've had gas for 19+ years now but we are still so tickled with our "new" stove. I can only imagine how much fun you're having with a new stove, that super grill pan, AND getting a gas cooktop!
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Jimmy wrote:It is a simple task to disable the exhaust fan function of
coming on. Just use a switch ( regular wall on/off switch ) to open the circuit to the hood / fan. Not mounting the switch to the fan, but just remote someplace near the hood.
My hood system now is turned on with a switch on the wall.
UNCLE JIMMY wrote:I'm sitting here, and laughing silently. Thinking about the items placed on the counter tops. I remember our kitchen as a kid, had to have the toaster with the cover that mom sewed.
A big deal, was the modern looking can opener; ( ready for this? ).....screwed onto the frame of the doorway in the kitchen. It swung in toward the wall, and mom would be pixxed if any of us didn't swing it out of the way when we were done opening cans.
The table was in the center of the kitchen, and there was always a dish towel, and the ashtray in the center of the towel. Moms and dads ciggs on each side as where they sat.
Didn't have a microwave. It was unheard of!
The coffee pot / brewer was left out for show, and was the clear Pyrex one that we called a
Drip O later. That sat on the stove top clean as a whistle. It was only used for company.
The every day one, was a dented and scuffed aluminum percolator.
We drank 8 O'clock coffee, and had a bag each of drip grind, and perc grind; depending which coffee pot was used.
It was a big deal. if you had a refrigerator that held ice cream frozen. We had that, and another, later on, that had a side logo of "Quickcube" I think it was a Frigidaire. You filled the ice trays, and when solidly frozen ice, you would open the top freezer door, and insert the special ice cube tray into a track upside down, and it would eject the cubes as you pushed the tray into the slot.
The cubes fell into a bin under the cube extractor. The cubes were huge too!
bethk wrote:The Tervis insulated plastic cups are what everyone here uses for their iced drinks, Michelle.
They're nothing but a double walled plastic cup, most with a plastic seal with a drink spout on the edge, but they keep things cold for quite a while and also (my personal favorite) keep the glass from dripping and sweating all over the coaster or table.
I, personally, don't care to drink from plastic but many of my friends swear by these mugs.
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bethk wrote:They're not bad with a straw.....but I'm not a huge fan of drinking from straws either.
I much prefer my cheap Libby glasses in easy to hold sizes.
Crybaby wrote:Jimmy wrote:It is a simple task to disable the exhaust fan function of
coming on. Just use a switch ( regular wall on/off switch ) to open the circuit to the hood / fan. Not mounting the switch to the fan, but just remote someplace near the hood.
My hood system now is turned on with a switch on the wall.
Thanks for the help, Jimmy, but I don't want to have to walk away to turn the fan on and off. Plus, I'm putting new lighting up on the ceiling so my switches on the wall are all used up and there's no room for new ones in that same spot. That probably wouldn't affect you but I'd have to pay someone to cut another hole in the wall, thread the wiring to it, etc. It really pays off when you're handy, like I've told you over and over. Tina is a lucky woman!
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