Advantages And Benefits Of Using Kitchen Extractor Fan

The kitchen extractor is a fan that is installed just above your gas stove so as to eliminate the heat, smoke, steam and odour from the kitchen that are produced during cooking.  These fans are mostly utilized in home kitchen but some of the industries as well need these fans to keep the air quality and to decrease humidity level.  There are as well several other names of these fans and these are exhaust, extractor hood, range hood, electrical chimney and many more. This fan includes three major components and these are:

1) Filters

2) Ventilation Fan

3) Panel for eliminating gases

During 20th century kitchen extractor fans came into use. Today, there are two kinds of these fans available and these are:

1) Centrifugal Fans

2) Axial Fans

Compared to an Axial Fan, an extractor fan can eliminate more air from the kitchen. This fan is utilised mostly in home kitchen so as to remove smell, heat, moisture, etc., from our kitchen during cooking. This fan draws the moisture and heat by the panel and filters the inside air. During this process, hot air is removed outside and the filtered air remains inside the kitchen.

A kitchen extractor fan assists in maintaining our kitchen cool and also frees from moist that helps the foods to remain fresh for longer time. There are many features of extractor fans and these are features, design, brands operations, size, etc. If you search in the market, you are able to get lots of brands of this fan manufactured by different companies.

While buying this fan you must consider about some of the important aspects such as always choose the fan according to the decor of your kitchen because it can add beauty to your kitchen, also consider about the size of the fan and choose one that properly suits your kitchen and lastly, the most important thing is that buy a kitchen extractor fan that suits your budget as well as your requirement.

Another important point to consider is that you have to find out how a kitchen extractor fan operates, what is the period of guarantee of this fan, is the brand a reputed one or not, etc. One of the most important points while using this fan is that you have to clean it from time to time so that it can function properly without any problem and also repair or change any part if needed.

An extractor fan of kitchen is not so tricky to clean. One can easily clean it without the help of any mechanic. You just have to dissemble all the parts, clean it and then assemble again. But if you are not confident in doing so then don't do it. While cleaning it remember that you should wash the filter cover in warm water and also keep in mind that the filters should be replaced after every 3-6 months.

You must remember that a kitchen extractor fan must be vented outside the house as it can damage the structure of the house.  Therefore, to have a smokeless and odour free kitchen this fan is very essential today.