Anyone explain why rangehoods are so expensive?

[transam]

The stuff inside the hood gets caked with oil via oil vapour....

[wgdanson]

Just now, transam said:

The stuff inside the hood gets caked with oil via oil vapour....

Once a month a good dose of Fairy Liquid usually sorts it. And don't cook with the oil quite so hot. It it that which can cause more carcingenerics to go into the food. 

[kamalabob2]

I've had the opportunity to meet with reps from Electrolux, Teka, Siemens, Tecnogas, Hafele and Smeg in Thailand. The superior kitchen exhaust hoods have the squirrel cage design, also known as a centrifugal blower. Night and day difference from the lower end models. Check the specs for exhaust capacity of m3/h.  Stainless steel or aluminum filters. There is more than meets the eye with higher end models. 

[duanebigsby]

On 4/4/2018 at 9:57 AM, giddyup said:

I think you will find that in nearly every new gated village there is a western kitchen equipped with a range hood, so there must be thousands of them being installed in Thailand. Are they all imported? I know most are international brand names, but I thought some would be made here under licence.

How many Thais are living in your gated community?

We foreigners often overestimate our numbers and influence in Thailand.

Thousand of them in country compared to tens of millions Thai style kitchens, they are an import, luxury item like ovens and clothes dryers.

Edited April 6, 2018 by duanebigsby
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[giddyup]

31 minutes ago, duanebigsby said:

How many Thais are living in your gated community?

We foreigners often overestimate our numbers and influence in Thailand.

Thousand of them in country compared to tens of millions Thai style kitchens, they are an import, luxury item like ovens and clothes dryers.

50% Thais.

[duanebigsby]

3 minutes ago, giddyup said:

50% Thais.

I would imagine that if there was no range hood the Thais would not go out and buy them.

Most Thais just don't feel they are a necessary part of a kitchen. Supply and demand.

[giddyup]

Just now, duanebigsby said:

I would imagine that if there was no range hood the Thais would not go out and buy them.

Most Thais just don't feel they are a necessary part of a kitchen. Supply and demand.

As I pointed out previously, all the big stores (and some smaller ones) stock a range of range hoods, so there must be quite a demand because they take up quite a bit of floor space.  I agree the average Thai living in a rural village isn't going to see the need because the cooking is normally done outside.

[duanebigsby]

2 minutes ago, giddyup said:

As I pointed out previously, all the big stores (and some smaller ones) stock a range of range hoods, so there must be quite a demand because they take up quite a bit of floor space.  I agree the average Thai living in a rural village isn't going to see the need because the cooking is normally done outside.

I give up! There is a HUGE demand for range hoods, western style 4 burner stoves with ovens, dishwashers, clothes dryers, and electronic fireplaces, slow cookers, and cappacino machines because the stores  have plenty of stock.

[giddyup]

1 minute ago, duanebigsby said:

I give up! There is a HUGE demand for range hoods, western style 4 burner stoves with ovens, dishwashers, clothes dryers, and electronic fireplaces, slow cookers, and cappacino machines because the stores  have plenty of stock.

They wouldn't stock them if they didn't sell them. There are plenty of middle class Thais that aspire to a western style of living now. They don't all live in the boonies cooking over charcoal fires. Only have to look at Thai TV advertising to see that.

[duanebigsby]

Just now, giddyup said:

They wouldn't stock them if they didn't sell them. There are plenty of middle class Thais that aspire to a western style of living now. They don't all live in the boonies cooking over charcoal fires. Only have to look at Thai TV advertising to see that.

Okay, but they are paying an import price for an item not normally bought by Thai people. The hood fans are expensive because not many people buy them ,therefore not manufactured here, therefore imported. I know a few well off Thais with no hood fans or dishwashers.

 

Tops in Chiang Rai stocks flour and corn tortillas and they all go out of date while no one buys them. Why would they stock them when nobody is buying?

[giddyup]

7 minutes ago, duanebigsby said:

 Tops in Chiang Rai stocks flour and corn tortillas and they all go out of date while no one buys them. Why would they stock them when nobody is buying?

Because they are low cost items so outlay is minimal, and they don't take up a lot of space. A friend tells me that range hoods are expensive in Australia as well, so I stick with my original point, that for what they are, ie a s/s shell with a small electric motor and some switches, they are overpriced. A washing machine by comparison is far more complex and a lot cheaper.

Edited April 6, 2018 by giddyup

[duanebigsby]

On 4/6/2018 at 6:11 PM, giddyup said:

Because they are low cost items so outlay is minimal, and they don't take up a lot of space. A friend tells me that range hoods are expensive in Australia as well, so I stick with my original point, that for what they are, ie a s/s shell with a small electric motor and some switches, they are overpriced. A washing machine by comparison is far more complex and a lot cheaper.

Then you've answered your question. They are expensive in Thailand for the exact same reason they are expensive in Australia.

 

The idea that the stores are full of stock of high end western items might be just as much for "high-end looks" as opposed to actual sales never occurred to you?  I doubt Tops really thinks tortillas are low cost when there are dozens of packages to be thrown away.

[scorecard]

On 6/4/2561 at 6:11 PM, giddyup said:

Because they are low cost items so outlay is minimal, and they don't take up a lot of space. A friend tells me that range hoods are expensive in Australia as well, so I stick with my original point, that for what they are, ie a s/s shell with a small electric motor and some switches, they are overpriced. A washing machine by comparison is far more complex and a lot cheaper.

 

Perhaps not that simple, the most successful supermarket / hypermarket operators assess / measure everything, the most professional operators have a revenue per metre target for every metre / level of shelf space, and if the items on that shelf are not producing the revenue and margin they they are usually gone as quickly as possible with as little as possible administrative work, quick restocking after some revenue /margin projections etc., all aimed at getting on with creating the circumstances for possible higher revenues at good margin.

 

Sure there are sometimes loss leaders as part of a strong strategy but I doubt tortlillas would be part of a deliberate loss leader strategy.

 

Then again some operators are very serious about these points, some aren't and in some cases computerized data analysis drives decisions, for other operators it may just be the local manager who have never looked on that particular shelf. 

 

 

[Golden Triangle]

I really don't see the point in having one, in the place we rent we have a cooker hood made by TEKA but no filters of any sort, just a bloody noisy fan, waste of chuffin space in my book.