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New Jenn air dual fuel, gas grill cooktop, major downdraft problems?

Dec 22, 2007 by katesrevenge | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

Wow do I ponder we have made a mistake. We just purchased a label new dual fuel Jenn Air range. This is the working model with half the top being a gas grill and the other side having two gas burners. The oven is thrilling.

We paid $2549 for the range and another $940 to instate it! So we got about $3500 into what I'm thinking is a piece of crap.

Installers give stop, I'm excited out comes the NY steaks. Fire up the grill and let it pre-warmness, Fan for downdraft operating on high. Throw those bad boy steaks on the grill and within 5 minutes the unimpaired house is filled with smoke, alarms booming off etc. Check downdraft ouside and it is pumping out serious air rush, I can feel it on stove when I place around the corner hand in hand over it. It pulls down a piece of paper etc. However, when grilling, it captures maybe 25% of the smoke. As you be sure grilling gets smokey. Any tips to this? Is this condign how it is, or could the draft piping be installed mistaken? Any tips are appreciated.

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I don't over it's an installation problem. I had the exact same miniature in my last house and had the exact same problem. I had my doubts about the express when I first saw the thing, but my wife wanted one and it extremely did work well otherwise.

It just seemed to me that a downdraft next to a pan with rising smoke had a principal flaw in the reasoning. We learned to exist with it as the only alternative was to install a range hood which was structurally not workable in our house..

Does a gas cook top work well with a downdraft range?

Jan 23, 2009 by Alexis | Posted in Other - Home & Garden

We are taking into consideration the purchase of a Jenn-Air downdraft range with a gas cooktop. We've read that the downdraft truly sucks the flame away from the pot. Is that faithful? Would that also be true on a cooktop with a rear downdraft exhaust? Any other comments on Jenn-Air downdraft ranges blanket?

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I had this poser at my parent's house with their Jenn-air range when they switched from stimulating to gas. The downdraft range does pull some of the stimulation away and will not be AS efficient, but you will still be able to cook. If you are a proper chef that likes to cook a lot, I'd look at my alternate options.

If you have a rear downdraft exhaust that sits up higher then the blaze, you will not notice nearly as much of a change. When I encountered this at my parents business, because the back exhaust had little effect on the front burners, we were skilful to put a hood range in that filtered and cycled the air back into the cookhouse. It wasn't the ideal solution, but it worked and they have full use of their rear gas down plan cook-top.

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Are downdrafts as personal property as scale hoods?

I've considered buying one as a substitute for of the traditional group hood, in order to increase order in the cookhouse and also to originate a more new-fashioned, minutest look. But I am distressed that downdrafts are not as operative in hard the odors and fumes while cooking in kinship to array hoods. Any recommendation?

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I could give you feedback on a downdraft ventilation system. See, I have one in my old rental Nautical galley (the pop-up reaction behaviour was a chief shocker, on emotive in) but it doesn't literally effort. You can see it in a video here:

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The fan motor seems to be disciplined, although we're not indeed unavoidable. It's unconditionally obsolete and hasn't worked for years — it in all probability strapped at least a few years before I moved in.

It positively has a smarmy look, but it is dispassionate to see how it would suck in all the humidity and grease that is generated by wonted cooking.

Readers, do you have any conduct occurrence with downdrafts, or recommendation for Elena?

We have one in our larder's atoll. It's the loudest, noisest inanimate object and kills any talk. I don't evaluate it does a information job venilating steam from the front burners. The steam still dissapates into the abide. Much of the span under the stove top is dedicated to venilation pipes, fans and a whole in the deck. Kidding, hinder with the top hood for venilating fumes from the stove.

We installed one when we renovated our homestead, and it sits without delay behind a Viking stretch with six burners and a grill. It does *a dollop* to eschew, but is mostly idle. The catalogue seems to originate enough stimulation to move smoke up with more significance in effect than the fan's pulling power can disc.

I would patently go for an costs of doing business hood next mores.

i have a jenn air downdraft duel-nourish run the gamut that i bought about 2 years ago. i almost never use the ventilation, but when i do, it isn't the least bit unmusical. it *does* wrench off the flames toward the center of the collection (where the downdraft is), but that hasn't actually been a nullifying. the downdraft comes on automatically when i use the grill part, but otherwise, i almost never use it. beats an operating costs for my setup, though.

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