These are kitchen appliances that are designed to be placed above a hob or a cooker to filter the air in your kitchen. The hoods trap the smoke and the grease that rises from your food as you cook. Cooker hoods are important as they provide adequate ventilation and prevent permanent damage to your kitchen as grease stains paint work and built up is quite difficult to clean.

There are a number of factors that you should consider when you go shopping for a cooker hood. You should consider the ventilation system in the cooker hood. This can either be re-circulation or the ducted/vented/perimeter extraction models. The major difference between these two models is that: with the re-circulation hood, air from your cooking is drawn into the appliance through the filters to neutralize odors and remove the grease particles. The cleaner air is then returned into the kitchen. The ducted extraction hood filters the air with a metal filter grease trap before releasing it back into the fresh air through an outside vent.

You should also consider the price of the price of the cooker hood before you purchase it. The price should be within your budget range. Cooker hood prices start from about $200 and to above $1000 but as the price increases you will expect to find quieter, more powerful units but the real factor that really affects the price is the design and size of the cooker hood. Te style or the design should be one that will satisfy your particular needs.

The size is also an important factor to consider while buying a cooker hood. Make sure that you choose a cooker hood that is of the right size for your stove. You should go for a cooker hood that has the same length as that of your stove so that it will properly suck up all the smoke that is coming up from the stove as you cook.