Smoke Hoods and Grease Hoods

Smoke hoods and grease hoods are an integral part of any commercial kitchen, restaurant, or food truck ventilation system. Ventilation smoke hoods help remove vapors out of kitchens to keep the cooking environment both cleaner and safer. Without a smoke hood, your kitchen would quickly become overwhelmed by smoke and covered in grease and oil particulates.

HoodFilters.com offers the best selection of commercial kitchen smoke hoods. Our grease hoods are durable enough to handle the demands of any commercial kitchen. By keeping your restaurant free of excessive smoke and grease, both your staff and your patrons will be happier.

Commercial kitchen ventilation hoods are installed above cooking appliances. They are specifically designed to help catch as much smoke and debris as possible coming from the cooking surface. Smoke escape hoods work by using an upblast fan to exhaust smoke and draw contaminants through a hood filter that captures and contains grease effluent. They are also known as Type I hoods. If you do any cooking that produces grease or smoke, a Type I ventilation hood must be installed above the cooking equipment.

Commercial kitchen emergency smoke hoods and grease hoods come in a variety of configurations. They most popular are wall-mount and low proximity. Food trucks usually install low proximity sloped backshelf hoods because they take up less space. They also come in a variety of lengths depending on how many cooking appliances that need to be covered.

No matter what type of commercial kitchen smoke hood you install, it’s extremely important to establish a consistent grease hood cleaning schedule. Not only does regular cleaning of your smoke hood and grease filters keep your ventilation system running more effectively and efficiently, it also decreases your risk of a kitchen fire. Plus, it is required by NFPA Standard 96 as well as many insurance requirements and local regulations. Grease cleaning also helps keep the other more distant parts of your kitchen ventilation system, such as your duct work and upblast exhaust fan, cleaner and safer as well.

HoodFilters.com carries a wide variety of Type I emergency smoke hoods, grease hoods and accessories at the lowest prices guaranteed. We also offer a full range of hood cleaning supplies and grease hood filters. If you need help choosing a commercial kitchen smoke escape hood, just give our product specialists a call at +1 877.394.9731, or send an email to info@HoodFilters.com.

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