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by amluto 775 days ago
Never mind that almost no residential structure has an actual proper range hood: a proper range hood has a matching makeup air system to avoid depressurization the room, which has its own problems.

(Modern codes mostly require some form of makeup air mechanism for a hood rated 400cfm or higher. I’ve never seen a residential kitchen with an actual working setup like this, although it’s common in a well designed commercial kitchen. What actually happens is that lower end / smaller residential kitchens often have combination microwave/hood units, and they work very poorly. Large / high end residential kitchens end up with standalone hoods with far too much flow, poorly sealed ducts, crappy loud blowers, and no makeup air. If you enter the parameters of a residential stove into a commercial kitchen ventilation calculator, you end up with a rather small flow rate, and the high end residential brands love to advertise much larger numbers.)