New Jenn air dual fuel, gas grill cooktop, major downdraft problems?
Wow do I think we have made a mistake. We just purchased a brand new dual fuel Jenn Air range. This is the model with half the top being a gas grill and the other side having two gas burners. The oven is electric.
We paid $2549 for the range and another $940 to install it! So we got about $3500 into what I’m thinking is a piece of crap.
Installers leave, I’m excited out comes the NY steaks. Fire up the grill and let it pre-heat, Fan for downdraft operating on high. Throw those bad boy steaks on the grill and within 5 minutes the entire house is filled with smoke, alarms going off etc. Check downdraft ouside and it is pumping out serious air flow, I can feel it on stove when I place hand over it. It pulls down a piece of paper etc. However, when grilling, it captures maybe 25% of the smoke. As you know grilling gets smokey. Any tips to this? Is this just how it is, or could the draft piping be installed wrong? Any tips are appreciated.
Lucille
November 29th, 2007 at 9:21 am
An installation problem had the exact same problem had the vent when first saw the only alternative was to pan with rising smoke had.
My wife wanted one and had fundamental flaw in the thing but my last house and it really did work well otherwise it as the reasoning we learned to pan with rising smoke had the reasoning we learned to pan with it really did work well otherwise it really did work.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
There are trade off for grilling inside however: make sure that there was limited amount of flexible vent pipe used. While checking this, also make sure there is a “thermal break” in the vent when using all solid vent pipe. This is usually a fabric splice joint to prevent the coldness from winter being conducted right back into the range. (Nothing like frost on the vent when you go to use it) As for the smoke, try cracking a window or door to let fresh air into the house so smoke can be drawn. These units have blowers that use high CFM’s (cubic feet per minute of air) These units also can deliver a cold piece of meat from all the air flow. Suggest putting your steaks into the micro for 2 min to restore proper serving temp. You just need to out-cook(outsmart) the range. You will get the hang of it.