On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:17:26 -0500, "Dee Randall" > wrote:

>Well, here are the results using the hood when steaming:
>
>http://tinypic.com/4ggtg5f.jpg
>You can see where the lights are located on the front of the vent hood - and
>the vents are to the rear of the lights. Obviously the steam is going up
>onto the lights and making the stainless ledge that contains them wet with
>steam.

Hmmm -- We've never had this happen.

>http://tinypic.com/2h3c0n9.jpg
>At a very hard boil, this is the pan I generally use to cook dried
>spaghetti. Similar pan for soups. I used a lid on this to redirect the
>steam, but didn't help.
>This is the third stage fan setting.

Here are some pictures I just took-

Fan setting 2:

http://www.xhost.org/images/k1.jpg
http://www.xhost.org/images/k2.jpg

At setting 2, some vapor does reach the front of the hood, but we've never had
any moisture that you could feel.

Fan setting 3:
http://www.xhost.org/images/k3.jpg
http://www.xhost.org/images/k4.jpg

Fan setting 4:
http://www.xhost.org/images/k5.jpg
http://www.xhost.org/images/k6.jpg

You can see how much more circular flow we're getting at the higher settings. I
haven't had a cooking situation yet that setting 4 couldn't handle (and it is
certainly a relief to not set off the smoke alarm any more!) I would think that
you've got a flow problem.

>I was hoping for better. I must've imagined the fan was going to push some
>air forward, encircling, and pulling it back. Was I dreaming?

It does, but not as well, IMO, as the first-generation Allure III that we had
last year, which had the blow vents in the bottom front edge of the hood. BTW,
you should also be getting some flow from two small openings at each end of the
trough in the front edge of the hood, in front of the lights, where the blow
vents used to be.

BTW, for comparison's sake, we've got 26.5 inches from cooktop to bottom of the
filters.

-- Larry