London, October 2023: Gaggenau, the luxury brand for professional grade home appliances, introduces its latest innovation, The Essential Induction cooktop. Seamlessly integrated into the kitchen’s worktop, it represents the epitome of freedom, flexibility and cutting-edge design for culinary enthusiasts.
The new induction cooktop is distilled to its essentials: the LED ‘dot’, the worktop surface, and the control knob. These elements are all that are visible.
The Essential Induction cooktop is designed to integrate exclusively with Dekton stone countertops. The stone worktop surfaces are carbon neutral, available in 60 finishes, designs, colours and in sizes of up to 3200mm x 1440mm.
Gaggenau’s distinctive front-mounted control knobs guide users through the cooking process. Meanwhile, the LED dot, a smart centre light within the cooking zone, shows the user where to place the cookware, warns of residual heat and vanishes when not in use, transforming the cooktop island into a versatile area suitable for preparation, serving, dining, working and socialising.
Beneath the 12mm-deep worktop, Gaggenau’s high-performance 21cm and 28cm induction modules create a spacious and unified multi-use cooking surface. The Essential Induction cooktop offers the full Gaggenau performance capabilities: 12 power levels, keep warm and boost functions and an illuminated control knob in stainless steel or black.
To ensure efficient cooking, Gaggenau has developed removable magnetic surface protectors for your existing cookware. Available in four sizes for pans between 10cm and 28cm, these protectors not only mitigate any noise of the pan moving across the stone surface and safeguard the worktop but also ensure the conductivity of the induction modules. Combining the cooktop with Gaggenau ceiling extractors provides a harmonious kitchen environment, especially for openplan designs.
“It’s about eliminating the boundaries between preparation and living. It offers the ultimate freedom in kitchen planning, which is a revolutionary concept for designers and planners,” said Sven Baacke, Gaggenau’s Head of Design. Dr Peter Goetz, Managing Director of Gaggenau commented, “Our longstanding commitment to innovation has often changed the dynamic of cooking. From the first integrated, eye-level appliances, to downdraft ventilation and pioneering steam cooking for the private kitchens, our technological advances have always created genuine human benefits. Today we champion The Essential Induction cooktop, an innovation that will not only change the way people cook but also how they choose to interact and socialise in the modern, open plan kitchen.”
The Essential Induction cooktop will be available to purchase from May 2024.
