Product review (5 stars): Love this hood vent-especially for the price!
I am not one to write reviews, but seeing as I read them when researching products, I felt strongly enough about this vent to write one! We completely remodeled our kitchen about 6 months ago, and were shocked to see the ridiculous price tags on hood vents, which are basically just a small electric fan. Not to mention the fact that the big box stores didn't even carry hood vents that would provide enough air flow to remove odors and moisture from your kitchen on even the highest setting! I had my heart set on a nice wall mounted stainless vent with chimney, but was not about to pay over $1000 for something that barely vented. I am an avid cook and purchased a pretty high powered gas range, and needed something to really move air/moisture/heat out of our kitchen. Read the reviews on this one and thought for the money it was worth a shot. Probably one of my favorite appliances in the kitchen besides the new gas range! This vent looks really great, but better yet, will absolutely remove all the cooking odors and moisture out! I loved one review I read about this hood vent "sucking the hat off your head if you walked by"! It is true! I rarely use any setting other than low-even when boiling huge pots of water with tons of steam! Love that the baffles are removed easily and dishwasher safe. The lights get a bit hotter than I would like, but they light up the back of my stove really nicely for cooking. Some reviewers complained about lighting, but if you do your homework and are remodeling, the key to any kitchen is adding tons of lighting. A hood vent is not designed to light up your kitchen, but this one is perfect for lighting up the back of our stove as that area can be shadowy even with well placed overhead lighting. I would recommend ths vent highly to anyone who does lots of cooking, and wants a great product that will protect their home by actually removing moisture and odors. I do believe you can use this as a recirculating fan, but if you know anything about home building or maintenance, you would never install a recirculating vent that only moves the odors and moisture around your kitchen! Love this product! Looks great, moves tons of air. Didn't really come with instructions, but if you're somewhat handy, you'll figure it out quickly!