Bosch DWB98IJ60I Review 2026 | Price, Specs & Verdict | ProAudio Video

⭐ Expert Review 2026

Bosch DWB98IJ60I 90cm Wall Mounted Chimney

★★★★☆

₹26,000

German-engineered Series 4 filterless auto-clean chimney with 1300 m³/hr suction, gesture control and an 8–10 year motor warranty — sold well below its ₹35,490 MRP.

🛒 Buy Now — Best Price in India

The Bosch DWB98IJ60I is a 90 cm wall-mounted, filterless auto-clean kitchen chimney from Bosch’s Series 4 range, built around a 1300 m³/hr blower, a black tempered-glass canopy and touchless gesture control. It carries an official Bosch India MRP of ₹35,490, which makes the ₹26,000 price at ProAudio Video one of the sharpest deals on this model in India right now. In a market crowded with lookalike glass chimneys, this is one of the few backed by genuine German appliance engineering, an onsite service network across India, and a motor warranty that runs to 8–10 years depending on the seller. If you have spent years scrubbing baffle filters after every tadka, this review explains whether the DWB98IJ60I finally solves that problem.

This chimney is aimed squarely at Indian homes with a 3-to-5 burner hob and a kitchen larger than roughly 200 sq ft — the kind of kitchen where deep-frying, high-flame wok cooking and daily masala tempering push a small 60 cm hood past its limits. It suits anyone building a modular kitchen who wants a wide 90 cm capture area, near-zero filter maintenance, and a fingerprint-resistant control system. It is a ducted unit, so it needs an external exhaust route — plan for that before you buy. For buyers weighing German build quality against the higher raw airflow numbers of Indian brands, the DWB98IJ60I at ₹26,000 in India occupies an interesting middle ground.

Suction Performance & Extraction Quality

Airflow is the number that matters most in a chimney, and the DWB98IJ60I is rated at 1300 m³/hr — measured to IS 374, the Indian standard, rather than an optimistic free-air figure. In practice that is comfortably enough for a 200+ sq ft kitchen with a four or five burner hob. The three defined speeds are genuinely useful rather than marketing filler: Speed 1 is a low-draw setting for boiling milk or simmering dal, Speed 2 covers everyday roti-and-sabzi cooking, and Speed 3 is the one you reach for during deep-frying, fish fry or a heavy tadka. There is also a boost position for short bursts when a pan flares up.

The 90 cm canopy width is doing quiet work here. A wider capture area means rising vapour is intercepted before it spreads sideways, which is why a 90 cm hood at 1300 m³/hr often outperforms a 60 cm hood rated higher on paper. Bosch pairs this with a three-minute delay shut-off: the blower keeps running after you switch it off, clearing residual smoke and moisture that would otherwise settle on your cabinets. Over months of Indian cooking, that single feature makes a visible difference to how greasy the kitchen ceiling gets. Where the Bosch is beaten is on headline numbers — Faber and Elica both sell 90 cm units at 1500–1600 m³/hr — but for anything short of a commercial-scale kitchen, 1300 m³/hr is not the limiting factor.

Build Quality & Design

The DWB98IJ60I uses a black tempered-glass canopy over a metal body, in the flat “T-shape” wall-mount profile that has become the default look for premium modular kitchens in India. Physical dimensions are 89.5 cm wide × 45 cm deep × 47 cm high, and the unit weighs 14.2 kg — heavy enough that you want it fitted by the Bosch installer into a proper masonry or well-anchored wall, not a hollow partition. The supplied power cord is 1.3 m, so position the socket accordingly during your kitchen electrical layout.

Fit and finish is where the German pedigree shows. Panel gaps are tight, the glass edges are properly finished, and the touch control strip is integrated into the glass rather than bolted on as a separate plastic module. Lighting comes from 3 W LED lamps that throw an even, daylight-toned wash across the hob — bright enough to judge colour while cooking, which cheaper warm-yellow halogen setups never manage. The black glass does show dust and water spots, so it needs an occasional wipe with a microfibre cloth, but grease build-up is far less of an issue than on a stainless finish because the gesture control means you rarely touch the surface at all. Country of brand origin is Germany; the unit itself is manufactured in India.

Features, Auto Clean & Controls

The headline feature is the filterless architecture. Instead of baffle or mesh filters that need soaking in caustic solution every few weeks, the DWB98IJ60I uses centrifugal separation: grease-laden air is spun so that heavier oil particles are flung out of the airstream and drain into a removable oil collector. The auto-clean cycle then uses an inbuilt heating element to warm the internal surfaces so trapped grease liquefies and runs into that same collector. You empty and wipe the collector — a two-minute job — and the chimney is effectively serviced. For Indian cooking, which generates far more airborne oil than European cooking, this is the single biggest quality-of-life upgrade over a traditional filtered hood.

Control is handled two ways. The integrated touch strip gives you speeds, lighting and the auto-clean trigger. Above that sits a motion sensor for Touchless Control: a wave of the hand switches the hood on or steps through fan speeds without you putting oily fingers on the glass. It works reliably at close range and is genuinely useful mid-cook, though it is not a substitute for the touch panel when you want a specific setting quickly. Round out the feature set with the three-minute delay shut-off, a boost position, and 3 W LED task lighting. Total power draw is a modest 180 W at 220–240 V, 50 Hz. There is no Wi-Fi, no app and no Home Connect integration on this model — Bosch reserves those for higher series — so if smart-home control matters to you, look further up the range.

Value for Money in India 2026

Bosch lists the DWB98IJ60I at ₹35,490 MRP on its India site, and street prices across Croma, Flipkart and regional dealers generally sit between ₹30,000 and ₹35,990. At ₹26,000 in India, ProAudio Video is pricing this meaningfully below the market, and that changes the value calculation considerably. At ₹35,000 the Bosch is hard to justify against a 1500 m³/hr Elica at ₹18,000; at ₹26,000 you are paying roughly a ₹7,000–8,000 premium over budget alternatives for German engineering, a properly finished glass canopy, and an onsite service network that actually turns up. Factor in the 8–10 year motor warranty and the effective cost per year of ownership drops below most rivals. For a fixture that gets installed once and stays for a decade, that is the number worth optimising.

Full Technical Specifications

Who Should Buy the Bosch DWB98IJ60I?

✅ Buy it if you: cook Indian food daily with heavy frying and tadka in a kitchen above 200 sq ft; have a 3-to-5 burner hob and an existing exhaust duct route; are tired of scrubbing baffle filters and want a genuinely filterless auto-clean system; value a long onsite motor warranty and a service network that covers most of India; and want a black-glass chimney that looks premium in a modular kitchen at ₹26,000 rather than ₹35,490.

❌ Skip it if you: have no way to run an external duct, since this model offers no recirculation mode; are chasing the highest suction number per rupee, where Elica and Faber at 1500–1600 m³/hr are objectively better value; or want app control and smart-home integration, which this Series 4 unit does not offer.