Oven safe
The maker says the item can go in an oven, often up to a stated temperature. Makers draw their own oven icon; it isn’t a standard symbol.
How to read it
Mepal’s guide has an oven icon for products suitable for the oven, a separate icon for the steam oven up to 100 °C (212 °F), and a thermometer icon that gives the highest temperature a product can withstand in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Whirlpool describes a related mark with two temperatures, the highest and the lowest a piece can withstand, which covers both baking in the oven and storing in the freezer. Tefal’s cookware instructions say its pans are for the hob only unless they state otherwise.
Also searched as: ovenproof symbol, oven safe symbol, oven symbol on dishes.
These describe what each mark means and who defines it. Most are makers’ own icons rather than a standard, and the same mark can mean slightly different things on different brands. What a particular dish, pan or container can be used for is set by its maker, in its care and use instructions.
The rating depends on the parts
In the oven the heat reaches the whole pot, so Zwilling says the handles and the lid have to stand it as well as the base. It rates its cookware with plastic handles as ovenproof up to 150 °C (302 °F), and its Simplify range with silicone handles up to 180 °C (356 °F), with the glass lid up to 150 °C. Tefal rates cookware whose handles are stainless steel, without Bakelite or silicone, to 250 °C (482 °F).
Read next
- Next in Kitchenware symbolsFreezer safeThe maker says the item can go in the freezer. The usual mark is a snowflake.
- The same shape in African flagsFlag of AngolaAngola’s flag is red over black with a yellow emblem in the centre: part of a cogwheel, a machete and a five-pointed star. Its constitution says the red is the blood shed by Angolans under colonial oppression, in the liberation struggle and in defence of the country, and the black is the African continent; the cogwheel stands for workers and industry, the machete for peasants, farming and the armed struggle, the star for international solidarity and progress, and their yellow for the country’s wealth.
More kitchenware symbols
The same shape elsewhere
Browse symbols drawn with squares and rectangles.
Sources
- What do the symbols and specifications on a product mean?, Mepal, Oven and temperature symbols
- Dishwasher safe and other tableware symbols, Whirlpool Corporation, Other dishware symbols 4. Minimum and maximum temperature
- Cookware for your oven, Zwilling J.A. Henckels, Is cookware with plastic handles ovenproof?
- Instructions for use for cookware, Groupe SEB (Tefal / T-fal), Oven use
Researched, edited and approved by Rory Hansen before publishing. Last reviewed October 9, 2026. How we research
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