With technology becoming more advanced the number of oven symbols and features are growing. These functions are designed to cut down your work, expand your cooking options and open up new possibilities. Using them correctly will ensure your Siemens appliance is being used to its full potential, providing the best cooking results.
The Siemens oven symbol guide will explain the latest range of functions on your oven, from cooking to cleaning, giving you full control of your kitchen.
Oven symbols for heating modes
Ideal for all types of food, 4D hotAir allows you to cook sweet and savoury simultaneously on up to 4 shelves, without flavours and smells intermingling.
Ideal for all types of food, 3D hotAir allows you to cook sweet and savoury simultaneously on up to 3 shelves, without flavours and smells intermingling.
For cooking selected types of food on one level without preheating.
For cooking selected food types on one level without preheating while using less energy than traditional roasting. Results in evenly cooked, crispy food. Perfect for poultry and duck or for smaller cuts of meat.
For traditional baking and roasting on one level. Especially suitable for rich fruit cakes.
For preserving, browning and final baking stage. Heat is emitted from below.
For roasting larger pieces of meat, poultry and whole fish. The grill element and the fan switch on and off alternately, causing hot air to circulate around the food.
For grilling flat items such as steaks, sausages or bread, and for browning food. The whole area of the grill heating element becomes hot.
For grilling small quantities of food such as steaks, sausages or bread, and for browning food. The centre part under the grill heating element becomes hot.
No more preheating when cooking chilled and frozen convenience food. Using an intelligent heating phase, it is now possible to cook frozen and chilled food without waiting for the oven to preheat.
Using top and bottom elements with the bottom emitting more powerful heat. Perfect for crisping pizza bases or tarts.
For dishes with a crispy base. The heat is emitted from above and more intensively from below.
For gentle and slow cooking of seared, tender pieces of meat in ovenware without a lid. The heat is emitted evenly from the top and bottom at low temperatures.
For drying herbs, fruits and vegetables.
For keeping your cooked food warm.
For preheating your ovenware.
For defrosting, e.g. meat, poultry, bread and cakes. The fan causes the warm air to circulate around the dish.
The microwave can be used on its own or in combination with a type of heating (varioSpeed). Cook, heat up or defrost food quickly. You can find the suitable types of heating modes in the user manual.
Oven symbols for steaming
Cook meta, fish, vegetables and desserts under a vacuum, at low temperatures and with 100% steam.
Cook your dishes gently and naturally with steam. Food retains aromas, vitamins, minerals, and its natural look.
Gently steam vegetables, meat, fish and cereal. Juice fruit. Blanch food. In order to reduce the cooking time, more robust food can be steamed at above 100 °C
Suitable for certain types of heating, the combination of steam and hot air turns food crispy on the outside and juicy inside.
For gently heating up food and for crisping up pastries. The steam ensures that the food does not dry out.
For leaving yeast dough and sourdough to prove and for culturing yogurt. Dough will prove more quickly than at room temperature without becoming dry on the surface.
Oven symbols for functions
By activating all heating elements simultaneously, Siemens ovens with fast preheating get to the desired temperature very quickly.
Preinstalled settings for a range of dishes ensure the appropriate heating mode, temperature and cooking duration for optimum results.
Heating the cavity up to 480°C, activeClean® burns away all dirt and grime. The remaining ashes can then be easily wiped away making cleaning your oven effortless.
A direct coating that lines the back, roof and side of the oven, ecoClean Plus makes cleaning the oven easy. The coated area cleans itself while the oven is on or can be activated with a cleaning programme.
Siemens oven has a childproof lock to prevent children from accidentally switching it on or changing any running program.
Switch the interior lighting on or off.
This function is available on steam ovens. Lift up the control panel of the oven to empty the water tank or to refill it.
Starts, pauses or cancels operation.
Oven symbols for time-setting
Opens up the menu within its options for time-setting.
A signal makes a sound once a set cooking time has elapsed. The appliance switches off automatically.
Set cooking and end time. The appliance switches off automatically ensuring to end cooking at the desired time.
Discover your perfect oven
Create delicious dishes with the help of Siemens appliances. Cook with steam, bake and roast with hot air or do both at the same time. Siemens ovens are full of creativity to turn your cooking and baking experience into a pure pleasure.
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