Does a really quiet but effective cooker hood exist please?

[Houseplantmad]

I have a Neff 60cm hood which isn't very effective in getting rid of cooking odours. It's vented through the ceiling through an outside chimney. Please help me find on which is really quiet but which works really well.

there aren't any;; extractor hoods are all form over function, fugly, noisy and not much use unless you for an industrial kitchen one which will still be noisy.

I have an extractor fan which is quiet and efficient - like the thing you get in bathrooms only designed with a grease filter. Unfortunately it took four goes to get one that wasn't faulty and this one is intermittently failing after two years.

I think the nearest would be the split type, where the fan is on the wall outside the house, sucking through a duct, and the hood over the cooker is just a shell. They tend to be rather expensive. I just looked at some around £1800 but I think I've seen cheaper ones.

Also, a large duct (say, 150mm) runs the air more slowly than through a small (say, 100mm) duct so makes less noise.

I like Elica extractors. If you ask them to send you their glossy brochure, you can look at the db ratings for noise, and the airflows, and compare them to other. Their website is awful, but their catalogue is good.

Canopy extractors are fitted into a top-box matching your wall cabinets, which seems to muffle the noise better than the all-metal hoods.

Ordinary wall extractors can be very quiet, 30db or less, but are not as powerful, and get clogged with greasy dirt. This is an example of a fan with removable, washable filters. The db noise rating looks to me not too bad.

I just checked, the one here is up to 400 m³/h, 55-69 dBA

On low speed, the noise is tolerable and you can hold a normal conversation. At high speed it is intrusive.

That dBA is very noisy! My dishwasher is 40 dBA and you can barely hear it. However it’s not extracting air. So I suspect no such thing as a quiet effective one. We open the windows!

Miele do ones that start at below 40 dBA. Expensive though. Their cheaper ones start at around 44 dBA. The top end of dBA lowers on each appliance in relation to starting dBA.