IKTCH IKC01 Under Cabinet Range Hood: A Gas Cook’s 900 CFM Pick

The IKTCH IKC01 is an under cabinet range hood rated at 900 CFM across four speeds on dual motors. Its strength is extraction headroom for high output gas cooking. Its limitation is the 6 inch duct carrying that air, with no certified airflow figure and no sone rating at any speed. It suits gas cooks with short, rigid duct runs.

Few under cabinet hoods claim 900 CFM, and that number is the whole argument for this one. The IKC01 pairs dual motors with four fan speeds in a 5.9 inch deep body, which gives a high output gas range more extraction headroom than the 400 to 600 CFM typical of the format.

What the rating does not come with is certification. The hood has no HVI certification to show, and no sone figure for any of its four speeds. That absence shapes most of what follows, so keep it in mind as you read each section.

We research every product we cover in depth. We don’t test in a lab, and we label manufacturer-only figures, so you can see at a glance what’s stated and what’s verified.

Made for Gas Cooks With Short Ducts

This hood fits a kitchen with a gas range, an existing upper cabinet, and a duct path leaving through the cabinet top or the wall behind it. If you cook at high heat, fry often, or run a wok, the extraction ceiling sits well above what the under cabinet format usually offers. On induction or electric at low to medium heat, we would steer you to a quieter hood in the 300 to 400 CFM range, because it sells you airflow you will not use and drags make up air rules into a project that did not need them.

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IKTCH IKC01 Specs at a glance

900 CFM Meets a 6 Inch Duct

900 CFM is a ceiling rather than a delivered figure. At 1 CFM per 100 BTU, a four burner gas range producing 60,000 BTU asks for 600 CFM, which speed three does not reach at 550 CFM and speed four clears outright. Against your kitchen’s volume, a 12 by 12 foot room with 8 foot ceilings holds 1,152 cubic feet, so 15 air changes an hour needs 288 CFM, a load the lowest speed meets at 300 CFM. By either method you have headroom, and that is the honest case for this hood.

But the duct is where that headroom goes. A 6 inch round pipe offers about 0.196 square feet of free area, so pushing 900 CFM through it works out near 4,600 feet per minute, well past the 1,000 to 2,000 feet per minute that residential duct design aims for. What reaches the outside sits below the rating, and the gap widens with every elbow. We found no HVI certified airflow data at any speed, so every figure in this section begins as a claim rather than a measurement.

Noise Level: A Range With No Map

The IKC01 is rated at 40 to 65 dB, with nothing to say which speed sits where, and no sone rating turns up at any speed in any source we checked. For scale, 40 dB is roughly a refrigerator at about 1 sone, while 65 dB sits above normal conversation at 3 to 4 sones. Read that range as a floor and a ceiling with nothing in between. Speeds one and two should pass as background noise and speed four will not, and we cannot tell you where speed three lands, because the hood carries no figure for it.

Install Prep: Bring Your Own Duct

Fit comes next, and it is easier to plan than noise. Match hood width to cooktop width, and go one size up over a gas range where the cabinet allows, since the IKC01-36 covers the outer burners of a 30 inch cooktop better than the 30 inch model manages. The 19.7 inch depth projects forward of a standard 12 inch wall cabinet, which is worth measuring if your walkway is tight. The IKC01 comes with no stated mounting height range, an odd omission on a ducted hood, so plan against the usual clearance of 24 to 30 inches over electric and 28 to 36 inches over gas.

In addition to fit, power arrives as a cord and plug on 120V, so you need an outlet inside the cabinet above. The real surprise is what the box leaves out, which is the duct, the transition, and even a paper mounting template. Owners end up cutting their own. At 900 CFM this hood also clears the IRC’s 400 CFM trigger for make up air, so treat your local building authority as part of the install rather than an afterthought.

Upkeep and Steel: Free Filters, Open Questions

Once the hood is up, upkeep is the easy part. Two stainless baffle filters go in the dishwasher, and a monthly wash is enough if you cook at a moderate frequency. The hood is ducted only, so there is no charcoal filter and no annual consumable cost to carry. Its steel is rated at 1.0 mm thick with no stated grade, which leaves 430 and 304 both in play. That difference decides how the panel holds up near salt air.

That said, gesture control is what sells this hood, and it is the feature we would least rely on. Greasy hands are exactly when owners report the wave going unread, which is exactly when you wanted it. The warranty is where the paper trail splits. The hood’s stated term is one year on parts with bulbs and filters excluded, while some sellers have advertised two year and five year coverage for the same model number at different times. We would buy expecting the one year term and treat anything beyond it as a bonus you may have to argue for.

Owners Split on Gesture Control

Beyond the spec sheet, two patterns hold up across owner feedback. Gesture sensing draws split reports, with some owners describing the wave and the touch panel as slow while the remote works every time, and others finding all three behave as described. The second is the install, which takes two people, and owners describe making their own mounting template because none ships.

Keep in mind how much weight that feedback can carry. The counts pool, so the 197 reviews on the product page span three widths and two colors rather than the single configuration you are buying. The base is better than most hoods in this class, and still not specific to your model.

Our IKC01 Editorial Ratings

Those strengths and gaps feed the scores below. We rate against the job this hood is built for, which is a high output gas range under a standard cabinet with a short duct run to the outside. Noise carries real weight in that scoring, because the speed you can live with matters more than the speed printed on the box.

Bottom Line: Buy It for High Heat Gas

We recommend the IKTCH IKC01 if you run a high-output gas range, have a short duct path to the outside, and are prepared to meet a make-up air requirement. In our assessment, the airflow is the real thing, the upkeep costs next to nothing, and we found little else in the under-cabinet format that offers this much extraction at the price.

We’d point you elsewhere if quiet operation matters and you want it verified. The hood lists no sone rating at any speed, and its 65 dB ceiling sits above normal conversation. We’d suggest measuring your duct run and ordering the duct parts with the hood, and the rest of this purchase is simple.