AlphaPapa
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My wife and I bought a new to us house 2 years ago. The house satisfied a bunch of our must-haves, nice-to-haves, and didn’t-know-I-needed lists. One thing it didn’t have was a range hood that ventilates to the outside. It has a nice hood that just throws smoke and odors up in the air and distributes them throughout the main floor. I have replaced the filters with new ones. But, that didn’t really seem to help.
This past weekend I blackened some burgers for the first time. I actually didn’t think I liked blackened burgers until a kitchen error at a restaurant (actually two errors) resulted in me biting into one and thinking, “OMG, where have you been all my life!” So, I found a recipe from Paul Prudhome online and somewhat followed it. The burgers came out great and I don’t think I’ll ever do one another way now. The downside is it produced a lot of smoke and we had to open windows to air out the house. That wasn’t a big problem since the outside air temp was low to mid 70’s and the humidity was relatively low. Those conditions will be distant memories here in middle GA in a couple of weeks.
The smoke and odor problems have come come up with several cooks over the past 2 years. So, even if I start doing the burgers outside on the grill grates I would still like to explore options to fix my indoor problems.
So, I have a question for those of you who have hoods that ventilate to the outside… do they work? Do you still get a house full of smoke and odors? It will take a bit of work to get one installed here. So, I will have to open up the checkbook pretty wide.
Thanks!
This past weekend I blackened some burgers for the first time. I actually didn’t think I liked blackened burgers until a kitchen error at a restaurant (actually two errors) resulted in me biting into one and thinking, “OMG, where have you been all my life!” So, I found a recipe from Paul Prudhome online and somewhat followed it. The burgers came out great and I don’t think I’ll ever do one another way now. The downside is it produced a lot of smoke and we had to open windows to air out the house. That wasn’t a big problem since the outside air temp was low to mid 70’s and the humidity was relatively low. Those conditions will be distant memories here in middle GA in a couple of weeks.
The smoke and odor problems have come come up with several cooks over the past 2 years. So, even if I start doing the burgers outside on the grill grates I would still like to explore options to fix my indoor problems.
So, I have a question for those of you who have hoods that ventilate to the outside… do they work? Do you still get a house full of smoke and odors? It will take a bit of work to get one installed here. So, I will have to open up the checkbook pretty wide.
Thanks!