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title: "How to Turn On a Bertazzoni Gas Oven: the Sequence Nobody Guesses"
description: "How do I turn on a Bertazzoni oven: the press-hold-release-maximum sequence the maker publishes, and why the ticking has to stop."
url: "https://bertazzonimiami.support/blog/how-to-turn-on-a-bertazzoni-oven/"
date_modified: "2026-08-27"
Category: "Common Problems"
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# How to Turn On a Bertazzoni Gas Oven: the Sequence Nobody Guesses

## How do I turn on a Bertazzoni oven? Press, release, then straight to maximum

This is the most common "problem" on a gas range from this maker, and it is not a problem at all.

The sequence is published by the maker and it is not the one people expect. **Press the thermostat knob in, hold it for about two seconds, release it, and only then turn it counter-clockwise all the way to maximum.** Wait until the ticking stops. Then reduce to the temperature you actually want and close the door.

## Why maximum, when you wanted 350

Because you are not setting a cooking temperature yet. You are heating a small metal tip.

Every gas burner on this equipment has a **thermocouple** — the maker calls it a safety device and that is exactly what it is. Its job is to prove there is a flame. Until it is properly hot, it will not hold the gas valve open, and the moment you release the knob the gas shuts off.

Maximum gives the burner **both the most gas and the most air**, and that combination is what produces a flame hot enough to convince the thermocouple within a few seconds. At 300°F the flame is smaller, the thermocouple warms slowly, and an oven lit that way goes out as soon as your hand leaves the knob.

The four or five seconds you spend at maximum are the whole trick.

## The same thing on the surface burners

If your top burners take two or three attempts, that is the same mechanism and the maker says so itself.

Turn the knob to the highest flame setting, keep it pressed with the flame on high for **four to five seconds**, then release. That is long enough for the thermocouple beside the spark electrode to reach temperature. Released at two seconds, on a low setting, the burner dies — and it dies just as reliably on a brand-new appliance as on a fifteen-year-old one.

This is worth knowing before booking anybody, because "my burner needs three goes" is the single commonest call that ends with nothing repaired.

## Broiler and convection

The broiler lights the same way with one difference: the knob goes **clockwise** to the broil setting rather than counter-clockwise to a temperature.

Convection has an order to it. **Light the oven first, then turn the function knob to convection.** Setting convection before the oven is lit is a common way to end up with a fan running in a cold cavity and a conclusion that the oven is broken.

## When it genuinely is a problem

Three behaviors are not technique:

**It ticks and never lights.** The spark is happening; gas is not arriving where the spark is. If your top burners are fine, the supply to the appliance is fine and the problem is the oven's own valve or ignition.

**It lights and dies even after five full seconds at maximum.** The burner is igniting and the flame is not being sensed. That is a thermocouple or a safety valve, and it is measured rather than guessed at.

**It used to light first time and now takes several.** The gradual version of the same problem, and the earliest warning you will get. An ignition system that is drifting gives months of notice before it stops.

## What to have ready if you do call

The model number, which on a range is behind the kick panel at the bottom rather than anywhere convenient. Whether the top burners work. Whether it is bake, broil or both. And whether the behavior is "never" or "eventually" — those are different problems and they travel with different parts.

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