How Do I Vent Cooking Smells From A Cooktop?
“How do I vent cooking smells from a cooktop?”Cooktops are not considered full-fledged stoves. The poor, lowly cooktop is lacking the attached oven, but most importantly, it usually does not have a vent hood built over it. What’s the solution? A downdraft cooktop is the cure.Answer: If you have your stove in a kitchen island, then you most likely have a cooktop. A cooktop is just a flat stove – nothing else. However, the way to vent offending cooking smells, smoke, and steam out of the house is to send them through a circuitous route: • Smoke leaves pan – goes up. • Downdraft element sucks in down. • Smoke continues down until it hits a bend in the tube. • Smoke makes a turn and travels horizontal…out a vent in the side of the house. Downdraft cooktops are better than having no venting system, but hardly better than having a hood exhaust system. If you can afford it, and don’t mind the aesthetic implicati
