Compare the Best Cooker HoodsApril 2018

Types of Cooker Hoods

Cooker hoods come in all shapes and sizes. The 3 main fitting types of are island (free hanging), wall-mounted and built-in. The hood that is best for you will be dictated mostly by the shape of your kitchen, and the position of your cooker within it.

Island

They are regularly used for kitchens where the cooker is situated in a central ‘island’ work surface. They are the most stand-out and visually impacting style of hood, and give a kitchen a modern, open-plan feel.

Wall-mounted

These hoods are attached to the wall of your kitchen directly above the hob, pulling smoke and dirty air away from the cooker. They aren’t as dramatic as island hoods, but aren’t hidden like inbuilt extractors. They can be simple as a ‘visor’ hood over the hob, or as eye-catching as giant ‘chimney hoods’ looming over the whole cooker. Wall-mounted hoods are the most common type of cooker hood, and suit all kitchens, from the very small to the larger ones.

Built-in

These hoods are generally smaller and quieter, but also come with less power. They are meant to be integrated into cupboards and ‘hidden’ away from obvious view. Because of their smaller size, they are ideal for more cramped kitchens, or places where a traditional chimney extractor hood would be too bulky.

Extraction Types

Cooker hoods work by sucking up the air given off from cooking, and either moving it to the outside through a duct or cleaning and recirculation it inside the room. Most cooker hoods can be operated both ducted and in recirculation mode.

The extraction power rating is measured in m³/h - the higher a hood’s extraction rating, the quicker it extracts air from the room.

Ducted

Ducted hoods feature a duct which channels hot air and smoke to the outside. Because they require access to the outside air (normally through a hole drilled through an outside wall), these type of hoods usually require specialist installation, or a hole from a previous installation. Extracting the air is more effective than recirculation the air.

Recirculating

Recirculating hoods take the dirty air and smoke given off from cooking, pass it through a filter to clean it, then blow it back into the kitchen. They do not require outside access, so are easier and less invasive to install, but are not as efficient at removing smoke and cooking odours as ducted hoods.

Filters

Filters serve to trap grease and smoke given off by cooking, leading to a better-smelling and cleaner kitchen. There are 2 different types of filters for cooker hoods - grease filters are important for all different types of hoods, since they help reduce the grease in the air and the smell of cooking. Carbon filters, on the other hand, are only necessary with recirculating air systems, since they strip the smoke from the air before it is recirculated back into your kitchen. These filters last about a year before they need to be replaced.

The hoods in our system are given a grease filtering efficiency grade. The better the grade, they more efficient they are at removing grease and odours from the air.

Cooker Hood Colours

Cooker hoods come in many different colours to best complement your cooker and kitchen. Most hoods can be found in plain silver, white or black but you can also find more adventurous colours - from bright red to fluorescent green - if you really want to make a statement!

Noise Level

A cooked hood is basically a large fan, so they make can make quite a lot of noise when turned on. The noise will depend on the power level of the extractor used - generally speaking the more powerful the fan, the louder it will be. Other factors such as the material used for the hood may also affect the noise level of your cooker hood.

Many hoods feature a low and high speed, with differing noise levels for each.

Cooker Hood Prices

In total we found 1397 extractor fans ranging from £29 to £6,816. A new kitchen extractor costs on average £513 and 80% of extractor fans are priced between £108 and £1,103. The Essentials C60SHDW15 is the cheapest cooker hood at only £30, and Gaggenau AL400191 is the most expensive at £6,815.

Extractor Fan Brands - Price Range

The highest average extract hood price out of all brands is Gaggenau extractor fans with an average price of £4,397. Gaggenau extractor fans start at £1,978 and their most expensive extract hood costs £6,815.

KitchenAid extractor fans range in price from £1,500 to £3,000, and the average price of KitchenAid extractor fans is £2,250 which is the second highest average price of all kitchen extractor brands.

The third highest average kitchen extractor price out of all brands is Miele extractor fans with an average price of £1,166. Miele extractor fans range in price from £195 to £3,299.

Extractor Fan Brands - Average Ratings

We have analysed 832 user kitchen extractor reviews and used this information to evaluate the average rating for each brand of kitchen extractor. The top rated extract hood brand is Miele with an average rating of 93%. The second best brand is Newworld with 91% and the third best brand is Leisure with 91%.

Biggest Kitchen Extractor Retailers

We found 715 current offers for extract hoods from eBay making it the biggest cooker hood retailer. That is much bigger than the second biggest retailer, Amazon UK for whom we found 397 current offers for extract hoods. The third biggest retailer is ao with 390 current cooker hood offers.

When Are Most New Extract Hoods Released?

April to June is the most common period for new kitchen extractors to be released in. That means that most of the latest extractor fan technology was released in within the last 3 months, and now is good time to buy. The biggest month last year for new kitchen extractor releases was June, with 191 new extractor fans released that month. October was the biggest month in 2016 for new cooker hoods, with 350 new cooker hoods released that month. 342 new kitchen extractors were released in April 2015 making it the biggest month that year for new cooker hood releases.

How Fast Do Extract Hood Prices Drop After Release?

New kitchen extractors drop in price by an average of 1% in the first 6 months after they wer first released. That means that on a typical extractor fan costing £513 you could save on average £4 by waiting 6 months before buying.

Types

We found 1,145 kitchen extractors that are wall-mounted extract hoods, which makes wall-mounted the most popular type amongst new kitchen extractors. We found 395 cooker hoods that are built-in cooker hoods, making built-in the second most common type amongst new cooker hoods.

Maximum Extraction Power

This denotes the maximum speed of air extraction for the cooker hood.

Across the range of kitchen extractors, the maximum extraction power range from 21m³/h to 1,651m³/h. The maximum extraction power of the majority of extractor fans range from 640m³/h to 760m³/h. The KitchenAidKEICD 12030 has the highest maximum extraction power. This cooker hood is a 1,651m³/h max extraction power extract hood and is on sale for £3,000.00. The KitchenAidKEICD 12030, which is available at £59.99, has the lowest maximum extraction power and is a 69.82m³/h max extraction power kitchen extractor.

Energy Efficiency of Cooker Hoods

The Energy Efficiency Class of a cooker hood shows how well it uses energy, and how much is unnecessarily wasted. Products are ranked from G to A++ in terms of how little energy they use compared to the norm.

A+ is the most popular energy efficiency rating amongst new kitchen extractors. We found 526 kitchen extractors that have an energy efficiency rating of A+. C is the second most popular energy efficiency rating amongst new extract hoods. We found 281 extract hoods that have an energy efficiency rating of C.

Biggest Extract Hood Retailers

We found 715 current offers for extract hoods from eBay making it the biggest extract hood retailer. That is much bigger than the second biggest retailer, Amazon UK for whom we found 397 current offers for extract hoods. The third biggest retailer is ao with 390 current extract hood offers.

Which Are the Cheapest Retailers for Extract Hoods?

The cheapest retailer by number of cooker hood for which they offer the cheapest price is v with the cheapest price on 424 kitchen extractors.

Proportion of Extract Hoods for Which Each Retailer is Cheapest?

The shop that most frequently offered the cheapest price on extractor fans is eBay and offers the cheapest price on 59.3% of its extractor fans.