Gas hob (burner symbol)
The maker says the pan can be used on a gas hob. It is the least demanding of the hob marks: Stellar says you can use any type of pan on a gas hob, and Fackelmann says gas hobs work with almost any cookware.
Market convention
Which hob does this pan work on?
Pans often carry several of these in a row on the base or the pack. Each icon is a separate claim by the maker: find each one on yours and open its page.
Induction (coil symbol)The maker says the pan works on an induction hob.
Gas hob (burner symbol) this pageThe maker says the pan can be used on a gas hob.
Ceramic hob (glass-top symbol)The maker says the pan can be used on a ceramic hob, the electric kind with heating elements under one smooth sheet of glass.
Electric hob (solid hotplate symbol)The maker says the pan can be used on an electric solid-plate hob, the kind with a sealed metal plate over each ring.
This symbol is a market convention: no law or public standard defines the drawing, so each maker draws its own and the meaning is whatever that maker says it is. This page follows 3 makers’ and retailers’ own keys.
- What it looks like
- A gas burner. Seen from above it is a ring with a filled cap in the middle and short pan-support bars around it, sometimes with flame tongues. Seen from the side it is flames rising from a burner. It sits on the pan base or the pack, usually in a row with the icons for other hob types.
- Other names
- gas hob symbol; gas stove symbol; flame symbol on a pan; burner symbol; Gasherd symbol
What it does not promise
It does not promise the pan suits any other hob. IKEA warns that the heat of a gas burner can slightly deform the base of a pan, so a pan already used on gas may no longer make full contact with an induction hob, and it recommends replacing the pan in that case. It does not protect the handles either: Stellar advises adjusting the flame so it does not reach up the sides of the pan, to avoid damaging the handles.
Where makers differ
Stellar draws flames over a burner, inside a circle. Fackelmann draws the burner from above, a ring with a filled centre and four pan-support bars, inside a square. Küchen Kotten, a German kitchen retailer, sums the gas mark up as ‘a flame’. Stellar says cookware symbols ‘aren’t universal and will differ across different manufacturers’.
More oven and hob symbols
Sources
No law defines this symbol, so the meaning is taken from makers’ and retailers’ own pages. Those marked as showing the icon draw or describe it; the others add conditions. Each was fetched and read on the date shown:
- Stellar : Stellar Cookware Buying Guide — the Stellar cookware symbols — Its symbol key (an image titled ‘Stellar Cookware Symbols’) shows ‘Gas’ as flames over a burner in a circle, next to its own ‘Ceramic’, ‘Electric’ and ‘Induction suitable’ icons. On gas the guide says: ‘You can use any type of pan on a gas hob’, and ‘Adjust the flame so it doesn’t extend up the sides of the pan, avoiding any damage to pan handles.’ Checked 2026-10-09.
- Fackelmann : Herdarten: Der Richtige für deine Küche (stove types guide, German) — Its ‘Herdarten Symbole’ picture labels a ‘Gasherd’ icon: a burner from above with a filled centre and four pan-support bars, in a square. The text says many pots and pans carry small hob symbols (‘kleine Herdsymbole’) showing which hob type they suit, and that gas hobs work ‘mit fast jedem Kochgeschirr’ (with almost any cookware). Checked 2026-10-09.
- Küchen Kotten (kitchen retailer, Germany) : Zeichen für Induktionsherd erkennen & deuten (1 August 2025) — Its FAQ answers how the induction mark differs from other hob symbols: ‘Induktion zeigt eine Spirale, Ceran wellige Linien, Gas eine Flamme und Elektro meist einen Kreis mit Punkt oder Strichen’ (induction shows a spiral, ceramic wavy lines, gas a flame and electric usually a circle with a dot or lines). It describes the icons in words and does not draw them. Checked 2026-10-09.
- IKEA Netherlands: Is my pan suitable for my IKEA hob? — ‘IKEA puts clear symbols on all pans that indicate whether they are suitable for gas, ceramic, induction or even all three’. It warns that ‘the heat from a gas burner can slightly deform the bottom of your pan’, which then ‘no longer makes full contact with the induction hob’. The page does not draw the symbols. Checked 2026-10-09.
Written in our own words; quotations are the sources’ wording.