do home ovens nees a Flue ??

We are currently updating our little kitchen. Until now I had a freestanding electric Westinghouse cooker. I noticed that when I used the oven, a would have a lot of water vaporous asscape and accumulate around the top of the oven and up the wall.

My mum has a built in oven, she has a similar issue with water vapour and steam escape through the top of the door and when you open the oven you get a extremely nasty hit of steam straight into your face, it's dangerous and so extreme.


I recently purchased a 2nd had St George guilt in oven and i was reading through the ancient instructions and noticed that they strongly recommend installing a flue into the wall to take the steam, water/etc up the pipe and into the Atmosphere...

Seeing as we are getting an vent installed up above the oven then could we somehow join them together. I really love the idea of not having any steam escaping in a way that is dangerous or will cause staining or damage.

advise and input will be highly recommended.
thank you.

Perhaps my oven is different, but in normal mode, there is no steam escaping as it self vents. Of course when we use the steam function, there will be steam, but not severe.