How exactly should you choose a range hood? Understand these points and you won't regret buying one

What is the most important thing in the kitchen? I don't know what everyone thinks, but Huahua thinks the most important thing in the kitchen is the range hood.

Let's think carefully about why the range hood is the most indispensable thing in the kitchen. Every day when we go into the kitchen to cook and make dishes, we actually all need a range hood, but many friends overlook its existence. Actually, the range hood just quietly does its own job; its presence is simply not as concrete as the aromas you smell and the food you eat.

Let's imagine what would happen without a range hood. Without one, when we cook we would be choked by the cooking fumes; not only would our eyes feel uncomfortable, but we would also cough. If this continued over the long term, we would come to hate cooking and be unable to enjoy the taste of good food.

Furthermore, without a range hood, the kitchen walls would suffer. Generally, when decorating, we choose ceramic tiles for the kitchen backsplash precisely because we are afraid that cooking fumes will get on the walls and be hard to clean. Without a range hood, we would have to clean the walls much more frequently. You can imagine how painful it is to come home after a whole day of work and still have to clean the kitchen walls. Over time, the result is that you don't even want to step into the kitchen, so what meaning does the kitchen have left?

So the range hood really is very important. But many people don't know how to choose a range hood when the time comes; the market is full of all kinds of range hoods, so which type should you actually choose?

Actually, based on Huahua's observations, range hoods on the market fall into two types: one is the top-draft range hood, and the other is the side-draft range hood. Today Huahua will talk about the pros and cons of these two types of range hoods to help everyone choose.

The top-draft range hood, as the name suggests, draws in cooking fumes from the top.

Its advantages are obvious. Generally speaking, cooking fumes drift from bottom to top, so a top-draft range hood can absorb most of the fumes very well. Also, a top-draft range hood makes it less likely for you to be splattered by flying oil droplets, and from the perspective of cleaning convenience, it is also very easy to clean.

Its disadvantages are also hard flaws. If you don't clean the range hood promptly in daily life, dirty impurities can easily fall from the top, which may ruin your dishes; moreover, not every household's upper cabinets can fit a range hood, so you may have to go to the trouble of making corresponding adjustments.

The side-draft range hood draws in cooking fumes from the side.

In terms of advantages, a side-draft model can save space above it, allowing you to store and place other kitchen utensils, and it can also draw away cooking fumes from a closer distance.

It also has disadvantages: side-draft models are often splattered by oil droplets and need to be cleaned relatively promptly, and their price is relatively higher.

The above are the pros and cons of these two types of range hoods that Huahua has summarized for everyone. You can buy according to your needs.