ILVE
General ILVE Information
ILVE is an acronym for Industria Lavorazione Veneta Elettrodomestici, an Italian company that makes high-end equipment for both commercial and residential use. We advisedly include that second category because their stuff is built like a battleship, and even though one of their lines' products are pictured in obviously domestic situations, it's hard to imagine them as anything but commercial. But there are always high-end buyers, so it must be so.
ILVE has two basic lines, each prolific: the self-describing Commercial and the apparently residential Majestic. Each comprises solely large ranges, most or all of which are available in quite a rainbow of bright enamelled finished. They come in widths ranging from 60 cm on up to a full meter (roughly 24 to 40 inches). Though the array is enormous, there are basically only a few modules that come in varying sizes. The induction tops in particular (and these are all available with gas and often ceramic-electric tops, too) come in only a few basic patterns, which depend on the unit width:
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60-cm width: 4 elements, 7.4 kW
- 1.4 kW, 145 mm
- 1.85 kW, 180 mm
- 1.85 kW, 180 mm
- 2.3 kW, 210 mm
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90-cm width: 5 elements, 9.8 kW
- 1.4 kW, 145 mm
- 1.85 kW, 180 mm
- 1.85 kW, 180 mm
- 2.3 kW, 210 mm
- 2.4 kW, 260 mm
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100-cm width: 6 elements, 11.1 kW
- 1.4 kW, 145 mm
- 1.4 kW, 145 mm
- 1.85 kW, 180 mm
- 1.85 kW, 180 mm
- 2.3 kW, 210 mm
- 2.3 kW, 210 mm
We have assumes--dangerous word!--that units of this caliber do not use power sharing.
ILVE products are available, it seems, in most nations of the world. Although they expressly state that "ILVE products are certified to CE and CSA standards, allowing them free entry to all Member Countries within the European Union and other major world markets like USA," the fact is that no induction-topped units seem available in North America.
ILVE Induction-Unit Data
Commercial units:
As always in these listings, we give these standard general--
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Important notes on these data:
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The full "Commercial"-line catalogue, in glowing colors and with pleasingly complete data, can be downloaded. We do not here give the induction data because it appears in summary form above. Nor do we try to distinguish the non-cooktop features of the units; the widths in centimeters are self-eident from the simple model numbers, and the numbers and types of ovens, grills, warmer drawers, and so on are too complex for here--look through the catalogue. We are just trying to be complete, to indicate the variety of combinations they make.
We found 23 ILVE Commercial models:
- PLI-60-MP
- PWI-60-MP
- PFI-60-MP
- PLI-90-MP
- PWI-90-MP
- PFI-90-MP
- PDLI-90-MP
- PDWI-90-MP
- PDFI-90-MP
- PDLI-100-MP
- PDWI-100-MP
- PDFI-100-MP
- PTWI-100-MP
- PTQI-100-MP
- PNI-60-MP
- PNI-90-MP
- PDNI-90-MP
- PDNI-100-MP
- PTNI-100-MP
- QDCI-90-MP
- QDCI-90W-MP
- QDCI-100-MP
- QDCI-100W-MP
Majestic units:
As always in these listings, we give these standard general--
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Important notes on these data:
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The full "Majestic"-line catalogue, in glowing colors and with pleasingly complete data, can be downloaded. We do not here give the induction data because it appears in summary form above. Nor do we try to distinguish the non-cooktop features of the units; the widths in centimeters are self-eident from the simple model numbers (well, almost: the "90" units are actually 911 mm), and the numbers and types of ovens, grills, warmer drawers, and so on are too complex for here--look through the catalogue. We are just trying to be complete, to indicate the variety of combinations they make.
We found 7 ILVE Majestic models:
- MTI-90-MP
- MDTI-100-MP
- ME-90-MP
- MI-90-MP
- MDI-100-MP
- MCI-90-MP
- MCDI-100-MP
