Why Do You Need a Range Hood?

Range hoods can help compliment the design of your kitchen and be the finishing touch that brings it all together. Range hoods however are also an essential appliance in the kitchen for several reasons, providing both practical and health benefits. Below are some key reasons why you need to have a range hood in your kitchen.

Air Quality

Cooking can produce smoke, steam, and strong odors. A range hood helps to ventilate these air pollutants, keeping the air fresh and clean.

Cooking on a gas stove releases pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, which a range hood helps to remove.

A range hood helps to remove smoke, steam, cooking odors and other pollutants produced from cooking in your kitchen. By capturing and venting out these pollutants, a range hood can prevent the buildup of grease and grime and improve the overall air quality in your kitchen.

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Kitchen Cleanliness

By ventilating the air outside, range hoods prevent the build up of grease.

With less grease and grime on or around your kitchen cabinets, a range hood also helps reduce the risk of a fire hazard, especially for gas stoves.

Cooking produces a lot of air pollutants and particles that, without a range hood, can settle on your counters and/or cabinets. By exhausting the air to the outside you are preventing the build-up of these particles on your kitchen surfaces, keeping it clean and preserving the lifespan/cleanliness of your cabinets, counters and other surfaces in your kitchen.

More Than Just a Design Piece

In summary, range hoods add more than just an aesthetic appeal to your kitchen. They keep your air and kitchen clean by removing the smoke, odors and any other pollutants from cooking out of your kitchen, ultimately giving you a better cooking experience. Range hoods come in multiple different sizes and designs, which an make choosing the best range hood for you overwhelming. We have other guides that help break down how to choose a range hood and a comprehensive quiz on our website which can help narrow down your choices based on a list of simple easy to answer questions. Of course, if that is not enough, our team of range hood experts are available to help you find the perfect range hood.