Best Cirrus flush mounted ceiling hood vent

[Eatzi]

I plan on putting a new Wolf 30" range stove top on a kitchen peninsula with an 8' ceiling. I do not have room for a standard stand alone 36" or even 30" vent hood as I would be unable to open several side cabinets as a result. Also, a vent hood would impede our view out of the kitchen. A downdraft vent will not work with the Wolf not to mention that they are totally ineffective. I have been trying to research Best's Cirrus flush mounted ceiling hood vent which offers an inline 800CFM blower. This type of unit would competely satisfy our requirements however the concept is so new I am unable to get any real world feedback as to its efficiency, even from the Best rep. Does anybody have any experience or insight into this product? All help would be appreciated!

[Betsy2424]

Eatzi, we are working with a similar arrangement in our kitchen remodel. Did you go with the Cirrus hood vent? If so how did it work out?

[Eatzi]

Besty2424, I have not yet gone with the Cirrus hood vent as I am still soliciting advice. Even the manufacturer has not been able to give me some references on the product since it is so new so I am still stalling on it a bit. Our project does not begin until the end of the year so I have some time. I am hoping for more posts to my inquiry on it.

[Betsy2424]

Spoke with a salesperson in our local high end appliance store who sells the Best line. He loves the Best products but indicated that the Cirrus is not going to meet the requirements when it comes to serious cooking. He could not offer any suggestions other than a hood mounted in close proximity to the cooktop. He also thought that the smoke and grease would mark the ceiling around the vent as it wasn't located directly over the cooktop which makes sense. I just can't resolve myself to a hood hanging in the middle of our large open kitchen, perhaps a serious amount of CFM would do the trick?

[Eatzi]

We were going to go with 800CFM if we do the Cirrus. It definitely isn't a perfect solution but it will still be better than the downdraft system I'm suffering with now!

[ThanksVille]

Not specifically analogous but our old kitchen had a 24" square exhaust register centered above our 30" range, peninsula configuration.....with a 12" x 24" metal duct run in an 'L' shaped drywall soffit running above cabinetry to the exterior wall of the house. Mounted outside was a 16" diameter wall exhaust fan from Graingers capable of 1200 cfm and controlled by a heavy duty rheostat. Simple cheap noisy jet engine configuration that worked reasonably well. Certainly not perfect at grabbing all the vapors or cooking odors but way way better than nothing. The downside was that with the register at approx. 7' above the floor, some 4' above the cooktop and coupled with no form of containment except for the evacuating air current, we had to run that on full blast when we really wanted to capture vapors or vent excess heat. Conversations suffered a bit and candle flames were almost horizontal in the open dining area adjacent to the kitchen. I have to assume that any flush mount unit at ceiling level would behave similarly to our former set up.

[Eatzi]

Thank you for your input. This just makes me even more skeptical of this product! It just doesn't make sense to me that this would actually work, but it suits my situation perfectly. I can only hope for some more practical feedback from anyone who has actually used the Cirrus in particular!