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

Siemens Backofen – 4D Heißluft Piktogramm 4D hotAir

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.

Siemens Backofen – 3D Heißluft Piktogramm 3D hotAir

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.

Siemens Backofen – Heißluft Eco Piktogramm Hot air eco

For cooking selected types of food on one level without preheating.

Siemens Backofen – Heißluft Sanft Piktogramm Hot air gentle

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.

Siemens Backofen – Ober-/Unterhitze Piktogramm Top/bottom heating

For traditional baking and roasting on one level. Especially suitable for rich fruit cakes.

Siemens Backofen – Unterhitze Piktogramm Bottom heating

For preserving, browning and final baking stage. Heat is emitted from below.

Siemens Backofen – Thermogrill Piktogramm Hot air grilling

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.

Siemens Backofen – Großflächengrill Piktogramm Grill, large area

For grilling flat items such as steaks, sausages or bread, and for browning food. The whole area of the grill heating element becomes hot.

Siemens Backofen – Kleinflächengrill Piktogramm Grill, small area

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.

Siemens Backofen – coolStart Piktogramm coolStart

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.

Siemens Backofen – Pizzastufe Piktogramm Pizza setting

Using top and bottom elements with the bottom emitting more powerful heat. Perfect for crisping pizza bases or tarts.

Siemens Backofen – Intensivhitze Piktogramm Intensive heat

For dishes with a crispy base. The heat is emitted from above and more intensively from below.

Siemens Backofen – Sanftgaren Piktogramm Slow cooking

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.

Siemens Backofen – Trocknen Piktogramm Drying

For drying herbs, fruits and vegetables.

Siemens Backofen – Warmhalten Piktogramm Keeping warm

For keeping your cooked food warm.

Siemens Backofen – Geschirr vorwärmen Piktogramm Preheating ovenware

For preheating your ovenware.

Siemens Backofen – Auftauen Piktogramm Defrosting

For defrosting, e.g. meat, poultry, bread and cakes. The fan causes the warm air to circulate around the dish.

Siemens Backofen – Mikrowelle Piktogramm Microwave

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

Siemens Oven Sous vide pictogram Sous vide

Cook meta, fish, vegetables and desserts under a vacuum, at low temperatures and with 100% steam.

Siemens Backofen – fullSteam Piktogramm fullSteam

Cook your dishes gently and naturally with steam. Food retains aromas, vitamins, minerals, and its natural look.

Siemens Backofen – fullSteam Piktogramm fullSteam Plus

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

Siemens Backofen – Dampfzugabe Piktogramm addedSteam

Suitable for certain types of heating, the combination of steam and hot air turns food crispy on the outside and juicy inside.

Siemens Backofen – Regenerieren Piktogramm Reheating

For gently heating up food and for crisping up pastries. The steam ensures that the food does not dry out.

Siemens Backofen – Gärstufe Piktogramm Dough proving

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

Siemens Backofen – Schnellaufheizen Piktogramm Fast preheat

By activating all heating elements simultaneously, Siemens ovens with fast preheating get to the desired temperature very quickly.

Siemens Backofen – Automatikprogramme Piktogramm Auto programmes

Preinstalled settings for a range of dishes ensure the appropriate heating mode, temperature and cooking duration for optimum results.

Siemens Backofen – activeClean® Piktogramm activeClean®

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.

Siemens Oven ecoClean® Plus pictogram ecoClean® Plus

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 Geschirrspüler – Kindersicherung Piktogramm Childproof lock

Siemens oven has a childproof lock to prevent children from accidentally switching it on or changing any running program.

Siemens Backofen – Backofenbeleuchtung Piktogramm Oven light

Switch the interior lighting on or off.

Siemens Backofen – Blende öffnen bei Dampfgarern und Dampfbacköfen Piktogramm Open cover for steam ovens

This function is available on steam ovens. Lift up the control panel of the oven to empty the water tank or to refill it.

Siemens Backofen – Start/Stopp Piktogramm Start / Stop

Starts, pauses or cancels operation.

Oven symbols for time-setting

Siemens Geschirrspüler – Zeitvorwahl Piktogramm Time-setting operations

Opens up the menu within its options for time-setting.

Siemens Backofen – Garzeit Piktogramm Cooking time

A signal makes a sound once a set cooking time has elapsed. The appliance switches off automatically.

Siemens Backofen – Endezeit Piktogramm End time

Set cooking and end time. The appliance switches off automatically ensuring to end cooking at the desired time.

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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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