Your guide to cooker hoods

The best way to avoid lingering smells, as well as take away steam that will cause condensation, and the grease that can make cleaning the kitchen a tough chore? A cooker hood with the spec for the job.

But while they’re highly functional, cooker hoods are no slouches in the style stakes. They can be an attention-grabbing part of a kitchen’s design to rival any pendant light, be as sleek and contemporary as the rest of your appliance selection, or complete a country-style set-up. If subtlety is what you’re after, on the other hand, there are unobtrusive designs that will do what they need to without shouting. And while the words ‘cooker hood’ cover the category, there’s a broad choice of shapes and possible locations for a kitchen’s extractor in addition to the canopy or chimney