Cooker Hood, recirculate or vent?

IronGiant

When we moved in the house had a standard 60cm cooker hood, and I managed to fit a 90cm hood to it.  This is not possible with the new hood*, so what do people do these days? The manufacturer recommends recirculating, but I suspect that is because they want to sell us charcoal units.  

* it is possible, but would be a major ballache.

wiz

Vent if you can every time

blue max

We have a real good one and it never gets used. Sounds like an aircraft at take-off, does surprisingly little and is just annoying.

I'd never go out of my way to do anything in future

Feel I should have googled something for you IG

sergiup

Vent, always. I genuinely don't get the point of recirculating extractors, other than using lots of filters because there's no easy way of pumping the air out. even then, you can get some pretty low profile air ducts if you're a bit handy at DIY.

IronGiant

This is the problem: I'll just need to cut the pipe off higher up and use a flexible vent hose                                                                        

raduv1

Don't look to much of a task to be able to vent , always the better choice, especially with my cooking .

wiz

We have heard

bobflunkit

Always vent. It gets rid of heat,which is a godsend.

Flashy

I've no doubt venting is better, but the one in my kitchen is a recirculating one and it does deal with heat. Sucks in hot steam, blows out cold air.

Would still rather have a vent, but not enough to pay for a hole to be knocked in the wall and one fitted.

bobflunkit

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I have no idea how that's physically possible?

In our previous house, I hired a hole cutter and done it myself, took about 1hr all in and well worth the time and money.