Get To Know...ILVE

Located near the beautiful Italian city of Venice, ILVE have been creating cooking appliances for over 60 years. Offering an impressive collection of both range cookers and built in appliances, these products are all handcrafted using the finest materials.

ILVE’s options are endless, with sizes ranging from 60cm right up to 150cm, plus a choice of traditional or contemporary styles, colours and functions that will enhance your cooking significantly. Along with a choice of hob tops and oven configurations, their overall integrity of all their components shines through and reassures owners that they have made the right investment.

Built with an impressively high level of detail and functionality, these professional grade cooking appliances are designed perfectly for the modern home. Read on to find out more about this striking Italian brand…

Range Cookers

When purchasing an ILVE range cooker, you will have precision temperature control and multifunction ovens fulfilling all your cooking needs and cooking every dish to perfection.

ILVE have been building range cookers for over 60 years, and their ongoing technical research into cooking science continues to make them of the finest manufacturers of cooking products.

Majestic

This grand magnificent style is truly ILVE's showstopper. Showcasing flawless design with functionality, the Majestic range becomes the focal point of any kitchen. Offering uncompromising performance, focusing on the essentials as well as the design, this fantastic range is designed and built to last over time and brings it in a comprehensive selection of colours and finishes.

Perfect for creating a statement, the Majestic combines both beauty and brains with the functions to suit anyone who is passionate about cooking. This 100cm ILVE Majestic Milano model is finished in a stunning RAL colour (more about these later). It combines two powerful multifunction ovens, along with ILVE’s unique 6 zone induction hob top and full width storage drawer. Both ovens include a specially designed rotisserie, great for evenly cooking succulent meat. The continuously turning spit allows the meat to self-baste and creates minimal mess as a result. This popular model offers a perfect mix of professional features and advanced technology alongside a stylish and unique design to create the perfect range cooker.

Available in 70cm, 90cm, 100cm, 120cm and 150cm widths and a large range of colour options, including the option of the very special RAL colour match system.

 

Milano

The iconic Milano is one of ILVE’s more traditional style range cookers. It brings the perfect blend of elegance and intricacy with a design that creates quite an impact. This beautiful range cooker is a powerful package. With premium trims to choose from, including Antique Bronze and Copper, it is easy to integrate this range into your kitchen design and colour scheme.

Reflecting Italian heritage, and with intricately beautiful door handles and controls, this gives the impression of a truly professional range cooker. This 150cm model truly shows off the refined nature of this brand. The versatile large 97 multifunction main oven gives you 15 fanned, conventional and grill functions, with the 43 litre second oven offering non-fanned cooking and grilling functions. Both of these cavities also feature a rotisserie. There are even steam discharge vents to allow you to control the humidity or condensation levels to let a little out for wetter dishes or keep it in for baking.

On top the detail continues with 5 solid brass gas burners of the highest quality. The superb removable Fry Top is a real must have, offering a stainless steel teppanyaki style cooking surface that is brilliant for cooking anything from meat and fish to pancakes or stir fries. It is even useful when dormant, either as a plate warmer or an optional chopping board. The fantastic cast iron coup de feu area is an ample territory of evenly conducted heat from a central 3kW gas burner.

The Milano is available in sizes 60cm, 70cm, 90cm, 100cm, 120cm and 150cm. It is available in a variety of different colours such as Matt Graphite and Antique White, but can also be finished in an optional RAL colour (read on to find out more about this).

 

Roma

The Roma is the most contemporary model of the ILVE range cookers collection. Inspired by professional kitchens, ILVE created this modern appliance to provide an impressive cooking experience. The Roma’s fresh finish creates a sleek look that can be integrated into any kitchen interior design, featuring futuristic ergonomic handles and controls to add a great addition to any modern kitchen.

This twin cavity Roma 120 induction model combines powerful multifunction ovens with a sleek and sophisticated seven zone induction hob, putting high power, speed and instant control at your fingertips. ILVE’s E3 precision temperature control system combines a directional rotary control with the existing digital display to show the desired oven temperature in 5 degree increments – rather than relying on the standard printed digits on the control knobs. This cooker offers a wide choice of 15 oven functions including quick start rapid heat up and a pizza setting. The large multifunction oven on the left offers a capacity of 97 litres, whilst the second multifunction oven on the right offers a capacity of 43 litres.

The Roma’s clean cut finish makes an incredible addition to any modern kitchen. Available in 60cm, 70cm, 80cm, 90cm, 100cm, 120cm and 150cm widths.

 

Torino

The Torino range is great for those wanting affordable luxury within their kitchen. One of the more contemporary styles, the Torino’s simplicity creates a stylish aesthetic that is available in a range of colours. Made with the same quality and care as the rest of ILVE’s products, the Torino provides that specialist level of cooking in a great value for money way.

This style also offers a special limited edition option. This 90cm model offers copious cooking capacity and A+ rated energy efficiency in a very refined package. With one large 97 litre oven, there is plenty of space to cook. There is a choice of 9 functions, including quick start rapid heat up that heats to 200 degrees in just 6 minutes! On top are six high quality solid brass burners with easy-clean black nanotechnology coating, making them easy to clean and durable.

The Torino is available in 60cm, 90cm, 100cm and 120cm widths.

 

Panoramagic

The Panoramagic brings an extra touch of indulgence to your kitchen, with a futuristic style range cooker certainly becoming an eye-catching centrepiece. The red LED backlit control knobs are matched with the stainless-steel body makes this a stylish choice.

The Panoramagic 120 8 Burner is a striking appliance. Behind the triple glazed, soft close doors is one 91 litre multifunction oven offering 15 different settings including fanned, conventional, pizza mode, intensive cooking and rotisserie. Alongside this is a 43 litre multifunction oven with five different settings including conventional, base heat only and rotisserie. To compliment the two ovens are eight highly efficient solid brass burners with easy to clean black nanotechnology coating, giving them a non-stick thermal durability.

This range is also available in a 90cm width and is a showstopping appliance for any contemporary kitchen.

 

Customisation

RAL Colour Match

ILVE offer an amazing colour match service, using RAL Classic colours for hundreds of different range cooker possibilities for your kitchen. Developed in 1927, RAL has since been standardising and numbering colours into a named and numbered system. With this are some beautiful colours if you are looking for that something special for your home. Every colour chosen for your ILVE range cooker can also be finished in either Gloss or Matt, ensuring you really are making your range your own.

For a list of all the RAL colours you can head to their website here.

 

Doors

You can also customise your range cooker to have solid doors if you are unsure about windows. A solid door range cooker is timeless in design and will look great in any style kitchen. Available on the Majestic, Milano and Roma collections, you can customise your ILVE model when ordering to suit you perfectly.

 

Built In

Creating not just excellent range cookers, ILVE offer a pretty extensive collection of built in appliances too. Here are some of their standout pieces…

Nero Pizza Oven

This 60cm oven shows off the new Nero style from ILVE, with gloss black oven doors and matt black handles. Behind the triple glazed, soft closing door is a 37 litre cooking space, providing you with 14 functions to choose from including a pizza setting. When using the pizza setting, prepare the pizza yourself, turn the oven on and it can reach an impressive temperature of 400°C. Wait just over two minutes for it to be cooked thanks to ILVE’s precise temperature control. Also provided is an electronic temperature probe, allowing you to check the temperature of your food to ensure it is cooked to perfection.

In order to use all these amazing features, ILVE have paired this oven with a TFT digital touch screen control, allowing you to adjust the timer, choose between cooking programs and also includes a child lock.

 

Roma Vacuum Drawer

This 60cm vacuum drawer follows the contemporary styling of the Roma collection, with a clean cut, stainless steel finish giving it a modern and professional appearance. Designed to be used for both cooking and preserving food, the draw removes 99% of air and reduces the chance of bacteria growth which can be used for all food and some liquids. Including additional features such as cold infusions, vacuum curing, tenderising and marinating, this drawer ensures your food is prepared quickly but maintains excellent results.

In order to use the useful features on this appliance, ILVE has paired them with a touch screen display meaning you can easily choose between functions, levels and cycles. Match this with ILVE’s other built in appliances, such as the built in ovens and blast chiller.

 

Roma Blast Chiller

This 60cm blast chiller also follows the modern styling of the Roma appliances, maintaining that professional look. Behind the triple-glazed door is a 40 litre cavity which offers multiple functions from slow cooking to blast chilling, proving to microcrystalline freezing allowing you to preserve, cook or store food and even has the option to chill beverages. The blast chilling is a particularly useful feature, designed to quickly bring the core temperature of your freshly cooked food down to 3°C and therefore preparing your food for the next step of the cooking process. This means you no longer need to leave tubs of food to cool on your counter tops.

Also included with this appliance is an electronic core probe which allows you to check the temperature of your food and once it has hit the set temperature, the process will end automatically.

 

Nero Ultracombi Oven

The Ultracombi oven shows off the Nero style, with a black gloss triple glazed door with a 36 litre oven providing you with three cooking methods in one single oven, using advanced technology to allow you to mix steam, microwave and conventional cooking. When using the steam option, the heat can be adjusted by just 1 degree at a time which is perfect for when you are using the sous-vide cooking method, enhancing natural flavours whilst providing healthy food. It also uses a refillable water reservoir at the front of the oven to ensure you don’t need to open the oven door to check on your food or check on the temperature, you can just place your food in the oven and leave it until it's ready.

If you have any questions about the ILVE brand or about any of the products mentioned, please call our team on 01244 402 975 or visit our website here to find out more.