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De Dietrich Induction Hobs

De Dietrich (part of the Fagor Group)

General De Dietrich Information

As a component company of the Fagor Group, De Dietrich induction units can be expected to share at least some qualities and features with those of their sister brands: Brandt, Fagor, Sangiorgio, and Sauter, as well as resemblances to units of companies whose line is based on Fagor "guts" (such as Diva de Provence, Heartland, and Windcrest).

De Dietrich is regarded as sort of the "flagship" line for the Fagor Group, and seems to have a premium reputation. Curiously, that does not square with at least some reports from within the trade, which contain observations like this:

The appliances and features are fine and probably would be well enough at home in this segment but they fall badly on service and backup, very badly. Take our advice, if you're looking at these machines look elsewhere, even if they are pretty.

Of course, the service data are only for the U.K., and things may be different elsewhere; or they may not--the problems appear to arise at corporate HQ, with numerous variant models and inadequate information forwarded to the field. Caveat emptor.

Sorting out De Dietrich induction-hob models is a nightmare. The various official De Dietrich web sites around the world list different sets of models, with little overlap from one site to the next. Worse, many retailers in various nations are selling models not listed on any De Dietrich site. Worse yet, at least for their newer models, De Dietrich is no longer giving away such basic and crucial information as the total unit power capability. They are playing the dirty little game of listing individual element maximum powers and leaving the customer with the vague--and highly erroneous--impression that the unit's power is something like the sum of those individual maxima, which--for this brand certainly--is never the case. Moreover, just to keep everyone on their toes, they don't list all their induction hobs under the deceptively simply heading "Hobs - Induction"; oh no, that would be too simple. They also hide some away under the heading "Modular", as a sort of test of the seeker's diligence.

As an example of the power-lies matter, consider (arbitrarily chosen) the DTI704V unit: one can find all over the place listings that show the nominal individual elements' powers, which are 2.8 kW, again 2.8 kW, 3.1 kW, and 2.0 kW--wonderful! you think, 10.7 kW of power. Uh, but the manual shows that the required fuse on 240-volts mains is 32 amperes: that means that the absolute maxiumum power the unit can be drawing is 7.68 kW, and it's probably rather less, anything from 7.4 kW down to--who can tell?--5.4 kW or so. Now this is a supposedly "premium" unit, so the real power is probably toward the upper end, 7.2 or 7.4 kW. But the optimists who foolishly think they are buying 10.7 kW of cooking power are being taken in by a policy that in our layman's opinion is mightily close to fraud.

The sites we have been able to find are a U.K. site, an Ireland site )which duplicates the U.K. one), an "international" (meaning French) site, a New Zealand site, an Australian site (one unit more than the N.Z. site), a Swedish site, and a Danish site (which duplicates the Swedish one).

On its main web site (in France), De Dietrich, like more and more appliance makers, is very stupidly letting its web-site designers use Flash, which (among many other evils) makes it impossible to link to any particular "page" because everything is one "page" as far as web browsers are concerned. To see what there is (it's all in French, remember), go to the French De Dietrich site, and when the thing has finally loaded and the preliminary razzle-dazzle finished (and you've thrown away the unwanted pop-up screen about dishwashers), click Cuisson; that will drop down a sub-menu, in which you click on Table de cuisson. When that finishes jazzing your screen, look on the right for the bar labelled Type de table; click it, which generates another drop-down menu, then click on Induction. That, finally, will show you (on two pages) their induction units; God help you if you make a mistake, because there's no way to back up--you just have to take it from the top anew. And remember, someone got paid to make it this astoundingly bad. Also note that when you click on a given unit's image to get details, the only way to go back to the display is to click the little X in the upper right to close that pop-up.

And while we're noting web-site eccentricities, be aware that all of the unit-page links to Manuals and Spec sheets on the U.K. site are broken. You can, however, outwit the site-design fiends by going to the site's Manuals look-up page (look across the top of the page you're viewing for the link) and entering the unit model number, which will get you the manual (a PDF file). The manuals for the newer 700-series units do not give power overall unit levels (which their older manuals properly did).

Some of the new units include what on the U.K. site is called a "continuum" zone, which seems to be essentially a "zoneless" surface, one that can accomodate large or odd-shaped cooking vessels (such as grills or griddles, but also normal pots and pans). That is a very useful feature. The "continuum" zone is really a "mini-zoneless"; the idea of a full-cooktop zoneless, which De Dietrich has been working on for some time, seems not yet ready (though other makers, such as AEG, have them out).

As always in these listings, we give these standard general--

Important notes on these data:

We have spent a lot of time hunting these data--often in several places for each individual unit--but we cannot and do not guarantee any datum to be correct (indeed, we often found conflicting data at different sources). Caveat emptor!
For those units we offer for sale, the prices shown are never over an hour old. For other items, the prices shown are the lowest we found with moderate but not fanatic searching; moreover, they are not updated very often and are only intended as a rough guide to comparative unit values in cost/power terms.
Most "Features" are not terribly important, and are nearly standard among roughly similar units, regardless of brand name. If some "feature"--shown or omitted--is especially important to you, check on it, because we did not take great pains over the "Features" data.
Dimensions given here are, as the makers themselves warn, only to be used as guidelines in planning--never do anything (such as cutting a countertop) till you have your actual unit to hand.
A very important unit datum is the "MaxPower" value. Many units show individual-element powers that add up to impressive totals that the unit cannot really supply. That is not a defect or some form of cheating: it is "power sharing", a clever and useful feature; but, unless the maker is unusually open about data, one can easily be misled into believeing that the unit as a whole is more powerful than it is. Your dollars are buying cooking power, and you need to be well aware of just what you are paying for in actual cost/power terms for the unit as a whole.
Similar to power sharing (though less flexible) is the "power boost" feature many units have on some or all of their elements. (That feature allows a "boosted" element to temporarily, for some short period--rarely specified, but typically 10 minutes or so--run at some set level well over its nominal power, to help with tasks like getting large pots of water to boiling.) As with true power sharing, if one is not careful, one can get an incorrect impression of the true total power capability of the unit as a whole, which, as we just said, is basically what your dollars are buying.

(For much fuller information on power, read our page Kitchen Electricity 101.)

De Dietrich Induction-Unit Data

Where not specified, the power is--of course--unknown to us, and unknowable from any of the De Dietrich sites, because even the unit manuals only show the fuse level, which can set an absolute upper limit, but that's all; we prefer not to guess--if they don't want us to know, we won't know.

Our guess at their model-suffix codes is this (and remember, it's deduction, not sure knowledge):

X = stainless-steel rim (drop-in installation)
B = bevelled edges (drop-in installation)
V = frameless (flush installation)
W = white (w/bevelled edges)
Z = aluminium rim (drop-in installation)
J = ?

U.K. & Ireland models (9)

Models other than those shown here--and these all come from De Dietrich's U.K. and Ireland web site--are sometimes seen for sale in the U.K. ; we don't know about them, but suspect from their series numbers (300, 500) that they are units now superseded by one or more 700-series models). Nothing wrong with that, so long as they are priced accordingly.

DTI704X (4 elements, ??? kW, 560 mm)
DTI704V (4 elements, ??? kW, 560 mm, bevelled edges)
DTI705W (4 elements, ??? kW, 555 mm)
DTI708V (4 elements, ??? kW, 745 mm)
DTI714V (4 elements, ??? kW, 555 mm)
DTI749V (3 elements + "Continuum", ??? kW, 900 mm)
DTI789V (2 elements + "Continuum", ??? kW, 900 mm, "SlimLine")
DTI732X (wok module, 3.0 kW, 380 mm)
DTI741X (zoneless module, 4.0 kW, 380 mm)

"International" (French) models (15)

(Models also available in the U.K. are linked there; for the rest--most of them--click here for the Flash monstrosity and make your own way on through its delights.)

DTI701B (2 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI701X (2 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI704B (4 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI704X (4 elements, ??? kW, 560 mm)
DTI705B ( 4 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI705W (4 elements, ??? kW, 555 mm)
DTI705X (4 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI705Z (4 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI706B (3 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI706X (3 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI708X (4 elements, ??? kW, ??? mm)
DTI731X (1 element, 4.6 kW, ??? mm)
DTI732X (wok module, 3.0 kW, 380 mm)
DTI741X (zoneless module, 4.0 kW, 380 mm)
DTI743X (2 elements + zoneless, ??? kW, ??? mm)

Australia & New Zealand models (5)

The one Australian link is to that site's main Flash block--the rest is up to you.

Note that at least one retailer in New Zealand has marked the 301 type there as "discontinued"; that might relate to no variant of it being available on the U.K. site, though it is still shown on the French site (whose images don't always match the unit number, so that for their reliability).

DTI301XE1 (2 elements, 3.1 kW, 308 mm)
DTI306XE1 (3 elements, 7.2 kW, 650 mm)
DTI305XE1 (4 elements, 7.2 kW, 650 mm)
DTI308XE1 (4 elements, 7.2 kW, 783 mm)
DTI309XE1 (4 elements, 10.8 kW, 931 mm)

Swedish & Danish models (9)

DTI301X (2 elements, 3.1 kW, 308 mm)
DTI304J (4 elements, 5.9 kW, 630 mm)
DTI318J (4 elements, 5.9 kW, 785 mm)
DTI305X (4 elements, 7.2 kW, 650 mm)
DTI305Z (4 elements, 7.2 kW, 650 mm)
DTI310X (4 elements, 7.2 kW, 650 mm)
DTI308J (4 elements, 7.2 kW, 783 mm)
DTI308X (4 elements, 7.2 kW, 783 mm)
DTI309X (5 elements, 10.8 kW, 931 mm)

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