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Thread Number: 71133
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Commercial appliances in household settings |
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Post# 941603 , Reply# 1 6/3/2017 at 17:03 (2,511 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Just because an appliance has the word "Professional"
Slapped on it does not follow it is truly commercial. This can be good or bad, depending upon the appliance in question and or several other factors.
Here in NYC throughout the 1990's or so there was this huge interest in commercial kitchen appliances. Ranges, burners, refrigerators, etc.... Well true commercial ranges need larger gas lines than standard residential IIRC. So that was another cost. They also give off large amounts of heat so fire code demands certain protections before installing. Also using one with all that heat isn't exactly pleasant. Unless one can install a fan/venting system that goes directly outdoors (as in restaurants) where is all that heat and smoke going to go? Commercial fridges are loud and often not very practical for most residential settings. Needless to say many spent huge fortunes on their "commercial" kitchens and like Edina Margaret Rose Sassoon of AbFab only ever light their cigarettes off the things and otherwise rarely cooked/baked. AGA ranges were another fad, until people realized just why the things are popular in northern Europe; they give off tremendous amounts of heat 24/7. Great if you are living on the moors, not so much in NYC for most of the year. | ||
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Post# 941949 , Reply# 2 6/5/2017 at 19:24 (2,509 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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My friend Brenda had a Garland commercial gas range in her kitchen, along with a large hood with fire extinguishing system. She doesn't live there anymore, and I don't know what she has now. Some cousins in Mississippi had a soda fountain at their house, and a Hotpoint griddle and also fryer. | ||
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Post# 942013 , Reply# 4 6/6/2017 at 06:02 (2,508 days old) by gredmondson (San Francisco, California 94117 USA) |
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I installed a commercial exhaust fan, but kept the Nutone stainless steel 48" hood in a house I no longer have. That fan was so strong that it acted like a whole house fan--the curtains would blow in the room in the bedrooms when I turned that fan on. The motor was on the roof, and I thought that would make it quiet, but there was still quite a "swoosh" noise when it was on. It was so effective that I could fry two pounds of bacon, and no one in the kitchen could smell the bacon. The whole experience really taught me how important a strong exhaust fan is in the kitchen.
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Post# 942044 , Reply# 6 6/6/2017 at 10:00 (2,508 days old) by Volvoguy87 (Cincinnati, OH) |
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Exhaust.
I'm renovating my kitchen right now, but I'm using residential-grade vintage appliances. One thing I did, however, was to get a 1950s NuTone hood with a seized fan motor. I completely removed the fan and motor, but am keeping the grease filter. I installed an external fan, so the motor and blower are outside my house, not in front of my face! The whole exhaust line is under suction, so I added a second intake near the ceiling (with another grease filter). It's not too loud, it's all residential-grade equipment, and it moves one heck of a lot of air! It won't make my bedroom curtains blow, but it should keep the kitchen tolerable.
The smell of frying bacon is one of the greatest smells in the world at 9:00 on a Saturday morning. By 4:30 in the afternoon, however, the smell has gotten old. My hope is that with a powerful exhaust fan, and the second intake near the ceiling, the exhaust system can remove the normal cooking odors, huumidity, and heat coming off the stove, but also that which gathers near the ceiling and can make the whole room unpleasant. Perhaps I'm a bit nuts. Dave | ||
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Post# 942240 , Reply# 8 6/7/2017 at 10:57 (2,507 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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| Post# 942296 , Reply# 9 6/7/2017 at 16:34 (2,507 days old) by dsimonl (Portland, OR) | ||
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Not a major appliance, but I have a commercial Panasonic microwave in my kitchen. LOVE it. All stainless (in and out), no turntable, 1-touch buttons, and designed for a duty-cycle of 50 uses/day. The only disadvantage - expensive, and....NO warranty if used in a non-commercial kitchen | ||
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Post# 942322 , Reply# 10 6/7/2017 at 18:22 (2,507 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA) |
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My folks also had a Garland Gas Range. There was also a KAid chopping machine they called a "buffalo chopper". It weighed like a ship's anchor. | ||
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Post# 998106 , Reply# 15 6/23/2018 at 04:01 (2,126 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 Even my 20 year old TOL Kenmore VENTED range hood will work as a whole house fan. When the weather permits to have the windows open (all two weeks out of the whole year) we just turn it on. I never have cooking odors from bacon, onions, garlic, or grease. When I have lasagna sauce simmering on the stove the whole neighborhood can smell it...but we can't smell it in the house. It's powerful enough that last year when Tony got hurt he sat in a chair in front of the stove to smoke and it took it all out (he doesn't normally smoke in the house). My only complaint is that when I use it, it sucks out all the bought air (heated, cooled)! My mother has the same fan in her kitchen.
I've always wanted a Wolf range but my Frigidaire works just fine along with the portable induction cooktop. | ||
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