Thread: Anyone with experience in commercial kitchen extraction methods

Commercial kitchen hoods are very effective, most times they can serve multiple extraction points.

I had one installed in my apartment in The Netherlands, in an open plan living and kitchen and the noise would have been far less as a cheap domestic one that rattles all the time.

Still planning my real house right now, if I could only find a good architect that wants to go with my "wild" ideas. That will have a commercial one for sure!

Good extraction fans have a hood! Take the lid of any pot on the stove, filled with boiling water and most, if not all the domestic ones can't handle the flow of hot air, half of it will escape the extraction fan and end up in kitchen or your open plan living.

I would go with a commercial one any time, and really, they are not that expensive!

My experience. Two fan hoods with a fan outside.

The fans are noisy? Because the bearings have failed or are going to. The noise is transfected through the ducting. The bearings need to be replaced.

The fan is oversized and the velocity of the air is so high it creates unwanted noise. The fan needs a larger pulley or the motor a smaller one. In our case we opened up the louvres in the closed kitchen which reduced the flow and noise from the open kitchen.