To my ear, it seems to be slightly louder than my actual range hood. The downside of having to operate the AirHood on its highest setting is that it’s very loud - particularly the wired version, which almost sounds like a box fan. The first setting, which is extremely quiet, didn’t seem to do much of anything at all the second setting provided some reduction in visible fumes, but not enough. The AirHood has three different power settings - 3,100 rpm, 4,000 rpm and 5,000 rpm - but in my testing, I found that only the most powerful setting produced the desired result. This wasn’t an issue for me during my testing - I have an electric stove - but it’s going to be a deal breaker for a lot of potential customers (including myself in my old LA apartment, which had an ancient gas stove). A bigger limiting factor lies in its construction: because its body is made of plastic, AirHood is not recommended for use with a gas stove, as an open flame near the device can potentially melt or otherwise damage it. That said, at the end of the AirHood isn’t really competing against range hoods it’s meant for those for whom a true range hood isn’t an option. From there, it does a great job of absorbing whatever’s coming off of the pan right in front of it, but if you’ve got another pot cooking on the opposite side of the stove, the AirHood isn’t going to help you out much there. The AirHood, meanwhile, has to be positioned next to your stove. Because they live directly above your stove, range hoods are in the prime spot to soak up all of the smoke, steam, odors and oil that naturally rise up from your pots and pans. There is one notable advantage traditional range hoods have over the AirHood: positioning. You'll still end up with some oil splatter on your stove, but that's to be expected, as even a range hood won't prevent that. It was enough to coat a paper towel - meaning that if the AirHood wasn’t there absorbing that oil, all of that grease would have ended up settling elsewhere in my kitchen. I was amazed to see the amount of oil collected on the front filter after just one meal. The AirHood’s fan is pretty powerful, spinning at 5,000 rpm in the highest of its three settings on both models (though the wired version does seem to put out a bit more power). And let me tell you, that filter can haul in some oil. The AirHood has a replaceable charcoal filter on the backside for filtering out odors and smoke, while the front of the device has a removable and washable stainless steel mesh oil filter. In testing the AirHood, my main goal was to see how it performed at sucking up oil - and I’m happy to say that I came away impressed. It was inescapable, and a real pain to clean. My main issue with the lack of a range hood in my previous apartment was the oil film that would show up everywhere. But even with the spring kit, there was more back-pressure than I cared for with a 50cfm bath fan and 15ft run, although still functional.Johnny Brayson It's Very Good at Sucking Up Oil Found vent at Menards and had to order spring kit online. I used that for a rental bath vent new installation once with the purpose of keeping critters out. Sometimes in the winter if I know a very windy stretch of days are coming, I temporarily screw in a matching machine bolt to my dryer nut, but I don't recommend that unless your memory is good enough to remove it before use.Īlso consider a vent like: with spring kit accessory. Your oven fan may not have a high cfm, so I'd recommend temporarily taping a smaller nut on first to observe the back-pressure difference while running the fan, and then keep going larger.
The vents run well with very little added back-pressure. However, my particular dryer run is very short - a few feet, and the bath vent run is no more than 10 feet with a 70cfm fan. A solution I've used for both my bath fan vent as well as dryer vent is to glue a nut (machine bolt type) as a weight near the lower flap edge.
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