Category Archives: Vent-a-Hood

Today, the range hood marketplace offers many brands of kitchen vent hoods and continuing to stand head and shoulders above them all is the Vent A Hood range.                           Available … Continue reading →

  1. What is the purpose of a “hood”? – to capture, hold and then remove the pollutants created in cooking. These pollutants are: grease, heat, steam, smoke, and odor. Grease – Home cooking can produce over one gallon of … Continue reading →

Good cooking ventilation is a necessity in the modern home and pays for itself yearly in both comfort and protection of furnishings. We need cooking vent hoods to dispose of odors, grease vapor, steam, and heat produced by cooking and … Continue reading →

HOW MUCH AIR SHOULD BE EXHAUSTED? Close to 50 cubic feet of air per minute per square foot of hood intake area is required for average home cooking. Heavier cooking requires an increased amount of air displacement, often up to … Continue reading →

HOODS DO NOT PULL STEAM, GREASE AND ODORS Heat rises. Hot air or any hot vapor (steam and grease) will rise. It will go straight up unless a draft blows it one way or another. Cooking vapors go into a … Continue reading →

Quiet: Variable speed blowers, internal or remote, get louder and louder as you speed them up. Vent-A-Hood’s® Magic Lung® multi-blower technology allows CFM to double, triple, or quadruple with very little effect on sound levels. Certified independent laboratory tests prove … Continue reading →

Perhaps one of the super laws, the law of relativity, tells us that everything in our material world is only made real by its relationship to something else. “Hot” only exists because we compare it to “cold.” Whether we realize … Continue reading →

The centrifugal air blower has become the most important patent Vent-A-Hood developed in its rich 77-year history of designing and manufacturing quiet hoods. It’s precision engineering capabilities turned an ordinary range ventilation fan into an energy efficient, quiet and powerful blower, making … Continue reading →