How do I prevent my cooker blowing out?
There may be an unwanted air flow under your extractor hood. Our advice is to interrupt this air flow by making an adjustment in your kitchen.
My cooker hood blows out the gas flame when in use
When using a cooker hood on recirculation mode, the air is passed through a carbon filter and blown back into the room where the hood is hanging. Depending on the operating mode chosen for the cooker hood, this can cause a considerable airflow.
What to do?
Often, the blowing out of the gas flame is caused by an airflow steaming down past the overhead cabinets. This mainly occurs at the highest setting of the extractor hood and cannot always be prevented. A larger space between the cove and the adjacent overhead cabinets may help.
If this is not possible, you can mount a shelf between the extractor hood and the adjacent overhead cabinet, the shelf should then fill the entire space between the extractor hood and the cabinet. As a result, this interrupts the air steam, preventing it from blowing out.
What is causing this?
The fact that the gas burner can be blown out is not a technical fault but is caused by airflow, placing a shelf next to the extractor will solve the problem or connecting the extractor to an outlet.
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