A guide to oven symbols

Here are some of the most common oven symbols that you might come across. We also mention which foods you could cook on the various oven settings. Now, this makes us very excited for a home cooked meal. If you want to know how to preheat an oven correctly we have that topic covered for you also.

Get ready to grill with this setting. It heats the upper elements and is perfect for grilling bacon or to make everyone’s favourite: Grilled cheese! You can also select this function for the last stage of cooking to give your food an extra crispy crust.

This setting is great if you want to cook thicker slices of meat as the fan helps to distribute the heat more evenly throughout the oven, making sure you do not burn the outside to a crisp by the time the inside is cooked.

This oven symbol is probably the most commonly used setting on an oven. A good option when you want to cook multiple dishes in your oven. Home baked cookies anyone? It’s also ideal for cooking Christmas dinner. Speaking of which, we have an article with some great DIY Christmas decoration inspiration you might be interested in.

This oven symbol means that the oven is being heated from the top and bottom, like a traditional oven. This setting is great for baking bread and cake as they tend to rise much better with the heat distributed like this.

This indicates that your oven has a defrost setting. However, the majority of ovens tend to not have this symbol. You are more likely to find it on a counter-top oven or on a microwave. 

We hope this guide was helpful and now that you are an expert on oven symbols and their meaning, you can cook up a storm whichever oven setting you might have to use. For more useful tips and tricks, you can take a look at our cleaning and organising sections on our website.