Home Appliances
A Guide to Buying Your Bosch Hood
With a Bosch hood, you’ll now spend more time perfecting your masterpieces in the kitchen instead of cleaning up after cooking. It keeps your kitchen smelling fresh by removing airborne grease, fumes, smoke, odours, heat, and steam. As fire-prone grease stains are also removed in the process, using a hood minimises the risk of a kitchen fire, so you don’t have to worry about causing unexpected accidents. Discover how to select the right hood to suit your lifestyle.
Circulation Type — Choose between ducted and recirculation hoods
Before thinking about the design of your hood, it’s also worth understanding how a hood works. The layout of your home will largely determine which type of venting option best suits your kitchen.
Ducted Hoods
Ducted hoods filter air from your kitchen, then send it outside of your home. While they offer the most effective way to rid your kitchen of fumes and odours, they also require a complex installation of ducted piping in order to vent smoke and fumes to the outside. This option is best suited for large houses with ample space.
Recirculation Hoods
If space is a concern, then a recirculation hood is your best choice. Active carbon filters within the hood remove unwanted odours and smoke, before releasing the clean air back into your kitchen. As they do not require an exhaust pipe, they can be installed anywhere in your kitchen, although they have a slightly higher noise level, and a slightly reduced extraction rate. Bosch kitchen hoods also come equipped with metal grease filters that are easy to clean by hand or in the dishwasher.
Hood Type — Choose the right hood for your lifestyle
Besides keeping your kitchen smelling fresh, hoods can also be a stylish addition to the kitchen.
For those who value seamless integration
These elegant hoods are a great choice if you’re looking to build a minimalist and stylish kitchen. Created to fit perfectly with your kitchen’s design, choose between canopy, downdraft, or telescopic hoods for a discreet and sophisticated finish.
Looking for flexibility in the placement of your hood? A canopy hood offers you the choice of either mounting on the wall or above your island kitchen. Our version comes with LED lighting*, which is energy efficient, and durable with a long lifespan, saving you the hassle of frequent replacement.
For those of you who long for an uncluttered kitchen space and clear views from the hob, here’s a hood that checks all of your requirements. When not in use, a downdraft hood is elegantly and inconspicuously hidden in a stainless steel frame right behind the hob. The hood can be easily lifted by the touch of a button as soon as you start cooking. This model also boasts a highly efficient vapour catch rate due to its close proximity to the cooker hobs.
If a sleek kitchen front is your priority, choose a telescopic hood as it disappears into your upper kitchen cabinet. It even comes equipped with EcoSilence Drive™ for a quieter operation, and a more energy efficient performance, with up to 80% in energy savings.
For those who value style
Not only are these mounted hoods perfect as statement pieces, they are highly functional too. Wall-mounted and island hoods are ideal for larger kitchens that view the hood as a clear design element, while not compromising on practicality.
Perfect for those for cook frequently at home, wall-mounted hoods give unlimited headroom thanks to their ergonomic shape. Its powerful PerfectAir Sensor** ensures perfect results, as it constantly detects odours and reacts to water vapour, automatically regulating the power of the fan settings to your actual needs, reducing more than 90% of odours generated.
A practical and beautiful kitchen island is often the most used area in the house, and requires the installation of an island hood. Island hoods are suspended from the ceiling above a cooking island in the centre of the room, and provide flexible ceiling mounting for your island kitchen. It’s capable of filtering out up to 89.2% of the grease from the surrounding kitchen air.
Extraction Rate Calculation — Discover the right hood for your needs
The effectiveness of a hood in removing fumes and cooking smells from your kitchen is dependent on its extraction rate. As a general rule of thumb, the larger the kitchen, the higher the extraction rate you’ll need. It’s recommended that your hood should be able to replace the air in the room six to twelve times an hour.
Extraction Rate = (Room Volume) x (6 or 12), where Room Volume = Length x Width x Height
Using the formula above, a Room Volume of 40m3 will require a hood with an extraction rate of either 240m3 for normal use, or 480m3 for intensive use.
*A highly efficient motor technology with lower power consumption compared to regular shaded pole and capacitor motor, saving user up to 80% energy in combination with LED, compared to models with capacitor motor and halogen lights.
**Module with regenerative active carbon filter has a long lasting concept of up to 10 years as the user could put the filter in an oven to regenerate it up to 30 times at a temperature of 200°C for 2 hours. Amount of regeneration is based on normal use (1 hour daily) with regeneration done every 3 to 4 months.
