Bertazzoni Air-Tec Vented Induction Explained

Air-Tec is Bertazzoni's answer to a specific and increasingly common problem: you want a proper range cooker in an open-plan kitchen or on an island, and you don't want an extraction hood hanging in the middle of the room.

What it actually is

Three appliances in one chassis — an induction hob, an electric oven, and a downdraft extraction system — built in the Professional Series design language with its signature metal knobs. Instead of steam rising into a canopy above, it's drawn down through the hob surface itself.

The hob runs four induction zones controlled by ergonomic metal knobs. Multi-zone technology lets you combine two zones into a single larger cooking area, which is what you want for a fish kettle, a griddle plate or an oversized pan.

Nuovo Luxury stocks the 90cm PROCH94I1E in all seven colours, from £5,499 in stainless steel to £5,799 in colour and Carbonio. Very few UK retailers carry the complete colour set.

Who it's genuinely for

Island installations. This is the main use case. A canopy hood over an island either dominates the room visually or requires ducting through a ceiling void that may not exist. Air-Tec removes the problem entirely.

Open-plan kitchens with sightlines. If the kitchen looks through to a dining or living space, a hood breaks the view. Downdraft doesn't.

Low ceilings, sloping ceilings, roof windows. Any layout where there is physically nowhere sensible to hang a hood.

Renovations where ducting is hard. Running extraction through an existing ceiling is often the most disruptive part of a kitchen job. Downdraft can frequently be routed through the floor or a nearby wall instead.

The honest trade-off

Downdraft extraction captures best at hob level. Steam from a tall stockpot rises above the capture zone in a way a wide canopy hood would still catch. If you routinely do long simmers in tall pots, a good canopy hood remains more effective at pure extraction.

The counter-argument is that most everyday cooking — frying, searing, sautéing — produces steam and grease close to the pan surface, which is exactly where downdraft is strongest. And a hood you didn't install because it ruined the room extracts nothing at all.

Ducted or recirculating

This is the decision to make before your kitchen drawings are finalised, not after. Ducted extraction vents outside and is more effective; recirculating filters the air and returns it to the room, which is simpler to install but needs filter changes and doesn't remove heat and humidity as well.

Which is possible depends on where the cooker sits relative to an external wall or a floor void. Get this resolved at design stage — it can determine where in the room the cooker can go at all.

Installation

Air-Tec models need a dedicated high-amperage electrical circuit run from the consumer unit by a qualified electrician, not a standard 13A plug. No gas connection is involved and no annual gas safety check is required.

We confirm the exact electrical requirement for the model before you order.

Is it worth £900 more than a standard induction range?

Compare the 90cm Air-Tec at £5,499 against the 90cm twin oven induction at £4,599. The £900 gap buys you the integrated extraction — so the real comparison is against the cost of a quality 90cm canopy hood plus the ducting and installation work to fit it, which frequently lands in the same territory or higher.

Framed that way, Air-Tec often isn't a premium at all. It's a different way of spending the same money, with a better outcome for the room.

See the Air-Tec collection, compare with standard induction models, or call 0330 133 6617 to talk through your layout.