New Home, New Range, New Range Hood
by on Oct.14, 2010, under Kitchen Range Hood Information
It’s been a while since I’ve posted to my blog and I apologize in advance. However this hiatus is for good reason indeed. The time away definitely wasn’t wasted. I’ve already cracked the code on a few new dishes which I will get to in another post. I also, more monumentally, purchased a new home. Now I rarely used a microwave until it came built in to my new home right on top of my stove. Never needed it. But now that I have one, I use it. This microwave also serves as a kitchen range hood as well.
So we’re moved in now and I went to cook something nice to celebrate my new and improved kitchen, minus the hole in the wall. To my disappointment, the kitchen exhaust fan that is built in to my range top microwave isn’t effectively removing the smoke. To my surprise it was set up for recirculating venting versus pushing the exhaust out into the duct.
If you are presented with a microwave/kitchen range hood and it’s not removing the exhaust effectively there are a couple of things you can do.
1. Check to see if there is a duct to the outside installed in your building.
2. If there is a duct, ensure that the microwave/kitchen exhaust fan is set up to move air through the duct and that it is not in recirculating mode.
It was very easy to switch my microwave/kitchen range hood from recirculating mode to duct mode. The hardest part was removing the microwave from the brackets but the rest was very simple. In fact I downloaded the manual online and the instructions were a cinch.
