PrintSmoky Kitchen, Need Some Exhaust
The recent gift, albeit wonderful and life-changing, of a Lodge two-burner griddle/grill pan has left us with a smoke-filled Brooklyn apartment on marathon meat-grilling nights.
Our stove is right next to a window. I figured setting up an exhaust system would be simple enough but all of us are hopelessly unhandy. Anybody have experience with this? Our place smells like a barbeque joint (not a bad thing, but, well, you know).
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3 Comments:
Box fan in the window, turn it around so it sucks the air out. Also a smaller fan in the kitchen on the opposite side pushing the air out.
Ah the old apartment days.
JerzeeTomato at 1:08AM on 09/11/07
Agreed--you need exhaust out your kitchen window, but I've found that the key to preventing my entire apt. from smelling like (insert meat here) is to have a fan aimed in to the kitchen so you contain the smoke! A box fan in the window works fine, but you can also buy fans that have side-by-side fans (one for intake, one for exhaust) that fit in the sill; you just hit the reverse switch so you can pull air in or push it out...
Curlz at 10:51AM on 09/11/07
Hm. We had the two-fan system working last time we made a bunch of smoke, but just not well enough.
I guess I'm thinking of something more industrial.
cmballa at 11:48AM on 09/11/07