Extractor fan runs but doesn't pull steam, smoke, or smells away effectively
Cooker hood light doesn't work but the extractor fan runs normally
Filter/grease indicator light stays on even after cleaning the filters
Rattling or vibrating noise from the cooker hood, especially at higher fan speeds
Remote control or touch-sensitive control panel doesn't respond
Hot or burning smell when a newly installed cooker hood is first used
Recirculating cooker hood isn't reducing cooking smells even with a fresh filter
Compared with most of the appliances on this site, the cooker hood’s history is less clean-cut — several companies and inventors have laid claim to being “first”, and unlike, say, the microwave’s well-documented origin story, the early record here is genuinely murkier. Early 20th-century patents Patent filings for ventilating hoods designed to sit above a […]