We test the effectiveness of extractors that are built into hobs (instead of placed overhead)

It used to be that extractors were over the hob. That makes sense, we all know heat rises and hot steam and cooking fats go up into the extractor. However the last few years we've seen more and more hobs with built in extractors.

In this video Steve uses a humidistat to find out if an extractor built into a hob really can be as effective as an extractor mounted overhead.

We use our working display model Miele hob, a KMDA 7774 TwoInOne

Miele describe them as hob with integral countertop extractor
Neff describe them as Venting Hobs or Vented Hob
Bora describe them as cooktop extractors
and no doubt other manufacturers use other phrases so please comment if you've heard of other names used.

Roots are a small family run business designing, supplying and installing kitchens bedrooms bathrooms in Kent. Read more about us on our web site at https://www.rkbb.co.uk

Steve built the humidistat and moving graph using a RaspberryPi, a sensor from adafruit industries and code written in Python. If you're interested you can download the code Steve wrote on github
https://github.com/steveroot/Humidity...
The sensor details can be found here:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/ad...
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2857