Montpellier oven symbols
9 symbols that Montpellier itself documents, each in our own drawing, with the Montpellier name for the mode next to ours. Tap a symbol for what it does, where makes differ and every source.
Check your manual — models differ. Two Montpellier ovens can carry different sets of symbols, and the same drawing can mean different things on different brands; only your model’s manual says exactly which elements run and how hot.
Read this first
Montpellier’s names are easy to mix up: “Convection” is the true fan oven (a fan in a circle), while “Conventional” is top and bottom heat with no fan. It tells its two grills apart by one extra line: “Double grill” draws a straight line above the zigzag, “Single grill” the zigzag alone. Its Defrost is a bare fan with no snowflake. The manual checked is for the MMFSO70SS multi-function single oven; its ECO setting (a fan between two lines, marked E) is gentle top and bottom heat, not the eco fan mode on this site, so it is left off.
The 9 symbols
Top and bottom heat (conventional)
Montpellier calls it “Conventional”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Conventional”: a line at the top and one at the bottom; the top and bottom elements work together.
Fan oven (hot air, true fan)
Montpellier calls it “Convection”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Convection”: a fan inside a circle; the fan gives even heat for baking on one shelf or several, suited to food that must colour evenly.
Fan with top and bottom heat (fan-assisted)
Montpellier calls it “Conventional+fan”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Conventional+fan”: a fan between a top and a bottom line; the fan with the top and bottom elements, for more even heat and colour, mainly for meat.
Bottom heat
Montpellier calls it “Bottom heating”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Bottom heating”: a single line at the bottom; heat from the element at the bottom of the oven only, mainly for keeping warm and colouring food.
Full grill
Montpellier calls it “Double grill”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Double grill”: a line with a zigzag under it along the top; the radiant heating element and the top heating element both work.
Centre or half grill
Montpellier calls it “Single grill”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Single grill”: one zigzag along the top, without the line the double grill has; the inner grill element switches on and off to hold the temperature, for grilling a small amount of food.
Fan grill (turbo grill, hot-air grilling)
Montpellier calls it “Double grill with fan”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Double grill with fan”: a line and a zigzag along the top with a fan below; the radiant heating element and the top element work with the fan.
Defrost (snowflake and drop)
Montpellier calls it “Defrost”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Defrost”: a fan on its own in the square, with no heating lines; air at room temperature circulates to thaw frozen food faster, without any heat.
Oven light (bulb)
Montpellier calls it “Lamp”.
Confirmed by:
- Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10), checked 2026-10-15: “Lamp”: a light bulb; turns on the oven light so you can watch the food (not available on the ECO function).
Not listed for Montpellier
The Montpellier sources checked here do not show these symbols from this site, so they are left off this page: Fan with bottom heat, Pizza, Intensive heat, Slow cook, Eco fan, Plate warming, Keep warm, Reheat, Dough proving, Steam or added steam, Fast preheat, Pyrolytic self-cleaning, Steam cleaning, Child lock, Timer or minute minder, Alarm, Bread baking, Top heat only. That does not mean no Montpellier oven has them — only that no Montpellier manual or support page cited here confirms the drawing. If your oven shows one, see all oven symbols by shape.
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Sources
A symbol is listed here only when one of these Montpellier pages shows it. Each was fetched and checked on the date shown; the names in quotes are the brand’s wording, everything else is ours.
- Montpellier: Montpellier — MMFSO70SS 70-litre multi-function single fan oven instruction manual (function table, p. 10) Checked 2026-10-15.