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title: "Cooktops & rangetops"
description: "Bosch cooktops & rangetops: induction, gas and radiant electric cooktops, plus the professional rangetops."
url: "https://boschmiami.support/appliances/cooktop/"
date_modified: "2026-08-18"
Appliance type: "Cooktops & rangetops"
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# Bosch cooktops & rangetops

### An induction top mostly protects itself

Under the glass is a set of coils and a good deal of electronics, and every one of the protections has its own code: the zone too hot for the work surface, the electronics too hot, hot cookware left standing over the control panel, a zone left running untouched for hours. In every one of those cases the cooktop switches something off and waits to be told it is safe. It is easy to read as a failure and it is the opposite of one.

### Ventilation is not optional

These units need the air gap the installation instructions specify, and the two things that most often remove it are a kitchen refitted around an existing cooktop and a drawer beneath it packed to the top. A top that has been overheating for a year will eventually stop doing it politely.

### Gas and the professional rangetops

Gas tops fail in a different vocabulary: an igniter that clicks without catching, a burner cap sitting a millimeter proud, ports blocked from a boil-over, a flame that lifts off the burner. The heavy rangetops add sealed burners, a griddle and rather more mass to move. On a gas top the useful information is whether it is one burner or all of them.

Induction · gas · electric · 24"–36"

Cooktop repair

A zone switching itself off mid-cook

Controls locked or unresponsive

Codes about supply voltage

An induction top mostly protects itself

Under the glass is a set of coils and a good deal of electronics, and every one of the protections has its own code: the zone too hot for the work surface, the electronics too hot, hot cookware left standing over the control panel, a zone left running untouched for hours. In every one of those cases the cooktop switches something off and waits to be told it is safe. It is easy to read as a failure and it is the opposite of one.

Ventilation is not optional

These units need the air gap the installation instructions specify, and the two things that most often remove it are a kitchen refitted around an existing cooktop and a drawer beneath it packed to the top. A top that has been overheating for a year will eventually stop doing it politely.

Gas and the professional rangetops

Gas tops fail in a different vocabulary: an igniter that clicks without catching, a burner cap sitting a millimeter proud, ports blocked from a boil-over, a flame that lifts off the burner. The heavy rangetops add sealed burners, a griddle and rather more mass to move. On a gas top the useful information is whether it is one burner or all of them.

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