Low-smoke cooking tricks

[dcarch]

An exhaust fan will remove smoke, oil fume and oil mist, but it cannot remove oil droplets/splatters.

dcarch

[Fat Guy]

I have a fan in the window. It helps a bit.

Upgrading the exhaust system is an impossibility. I already have what's supposed to be the best ductless hood, which does very little, and ducting a hood to the outside isn't possible. I could do the part of it in my own unit, which we own, but it's not possible for us to break exterior walls or run ductwork up through two other people's apartments to the roof.

[ScoopKW]

I know you've said there's no outside access -- but I have to ask. Not even roof access?

I thought the apartment roof was a given perk for living in NYC?

[Fat Guy]

Most people in the city have no roof access. We have no private roof access. There is a common roof deck under construction on which cooking is not allowed.

[OliverB]

could you run a duct inside to the window and out there? And what's a roof deck if you can't bbq up there? Talk them into at least a gas grill :-)

If people can roast in the sun up there, why not a steak on a bit of safe gas fire? 'course, I don't know all the codes and what not laws in NY...

[Fat Guy]

Those simply are not options.