Re: slightly OT.... a clean oven

On 11/27/2024 10:46 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2024-11-25, Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
 

My mother has a Jenn-Aire range with a downdraft fan between the
burners.  Circa early 2000's.  It did not vent outside, I have no clue
where it vented to... Maybe just behind the stove.  The concept of the
fan seemed odd to me, especially on "high", it pulled heat down away
from what's cooking above.  It almost pulls the flame out if the flame
is low.

  Are you *sure* it didn't vent outside? They're supposed to.

It is supposed to, but it's an old house, and the stove is backed to an interior wall, center of the house.  I never found a vent anywhere along the exterior or roof.
Another house I grew up in, both bathroom ceiling vents went straight into the attic and stopped.  I'm glad that I checked, because that could have been a moldy mess up there from humidity had we regularly used the fans.