Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The good : 1. There don't seem to be many hoods that lie between the super-cheap ones that just don't suck any air at all and the super-expensive designer kitchen fetishist ones. This one is in that gap, so that's good. The bad : 1. Hidden switches are really terrible for usability. The "clean lines" that make it impossible to find the switch quickly are something that only a suburban housewife that doesn't actually cook could love. 2. The suction surface area is actually quite small. Most of the interior is a big plate that gets filthy. Also the lights are not covered and provide ingress for grease into the inside of the machine. 3. The low setting is quiet but hardly sucks any air, and the high setting sucks a lot of air but is really loud; a middle setting would have been nice. In general with Broan products I'm not impressed by the air flow to sound ratio (there's rather too much noise for the amount of air flow). 4. Cheap cheap cheap. Every piece feels like they cut it down to minimum cost and quality. The switches feel stiff and fragile. It's held together by a minimum of screws. There are lots of holes and turbulence-creators in the air flow path. There's lots of un-padded metal on metal contact. The mounting points are not reinforced. Just typical cheapo Broan.