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Bosch - Benchmark Series 30" Built-In Electric Induction Cooktop with 4 elements and Wifi, Frameless - Black
Average customer rating
4.7
(45 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 45 reviews
5 Stars
34
4 Stars
9
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
0
1 Star
1
94%of customers recommend this product.
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30 out of
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Customer Reviews for Bosch - Benchmark Series 30" Built-In Electric Induction Cooktop with 4 elements and Wifi, Frameless - Black
Customer Rating
5
Works great - I love it
on January 17, 2025
Posted by: Scudder
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is my first induction cooktop and I love it. It is very powerful and effective. I like the ability to set so many power levels, as well as the power boost features that boils a large pot of water in no time at all.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com
Customer Rating
5
Best cooktop ever
on January 28, 2025
Posted by: Polly
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Absolutely love my new cooktop. Works like a charm.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com
Customer Rating
5
Bosch induction Cooktop
on February 17, 2025
Posted by: Anonymous
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] i replaced a KitchenAid gas cooktop with the Benchmark. It was the best decision. The induction is much faster to boil water. i love the keep warm setting and the Flex side.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com
Customer Rating
5
Love this Induction Stovetop
on March 11, 2025
Posted by: Connie
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Our first Induction Stovetop is easy to use, easy to clean, and I love the safety features!
We keep a thin piece of wood over the top when not in use to protect from us and our cats (paw prints/scratches). We especially like how quickly the heat dissapates and how the top remains room temp except under the pan/pot in use.
We keep a thin piece of wood over the top when not in use to protect from us and our cats (paw prints/scratches). We especially like how quickly the heat dissapates and how the top remains room temp except under the pan/pot in use.
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com
Customer Rating
4
Bosch Induction Cooking
on March 20, 2025
Posted by: JGIII
The Bosch NITP060UC cooktop, as with induction cooktops in general, is efficient and fast acting. The induction process heats pans very quickly, in my experience bringing water to a boil much faster than the gas cooktop it replaced. The glass cooktop surface is very easy to keep clean. It does get hot, but only from the heat transferred to it from the cookware. The glass cools fairly quickly after a hot pan is removed. This cooktop model has what Bosch calls the FlexInduction cooking zone which provides several sizes of cooking areas for different pan sizes plus the ability to link the zone into one large area. When linked, this area works particularly well with a griddle.
I have not owned this cooktop long enough to have any experience with its reliability, but several available sources ranked Bosch very high in reliability. This was a prime reason that I purchased the Bosch.
This model includes WiFi capability and a phone app to communicate with the cooktop though I haven’t made much use of the app. One advantage the app provides is that it displays the status of the cooktop timers. If you happen to be out of hearing range of the cooktop when the countdown timer reaches zero, the app can send a notification to your phone that the timer has ended.
The app includes a function to change the power setting for a burner. This is not truly a remote control because, for safety’s sake, you have to confirm the setting change on the cooktop itself. While I understand the safety aspect of this requirement, I do not see the point of using the app to apply a change that you then have to confirm on the cooktop. Why not just make the change directly on the cooktop? BYW, you might expect to confirm a power change by pressing the “button” labeled Confirm on the cooktop. But, no, instead you confirm by pressing the corresponding burner icon on the cooktop legend map.
I reduced my rating by one star for the cooktop controls and labeling:
Pluses:
1. The cooktop controls are totally touch controlled providing an uninterrupted flat glass surface.
2. There is a panel lock (or child lock) to prevent accidental changes to the touch controls. It can be set for short term, e.g., when you want to wipe the glass top, or for long term to prevent a child from accidentally activating (or deactivating) the cooktop.
3. When cookware is removed from an active “burner”, or if power is set for a cook area when no cookware is in place, the controls automatically turn the power off after a few seconds.
4. The long linear control area for power settings provides easy and precise setting or changing of the power level.
Minuses:
1. While the labels for most of the controls are easy to see, the markings indicating the cooking areas and the power setting levels are very faint against the black surface and do not show up very well in anything less than direct and bright kitchen lighting. The attached photo shows the difference between these two types of labels.
2. The cooking controls are not very intuitive. The cooktop uses the same linear power setting “pad” to control all of the cooking areas (“burners”). You select the power setting for a burner by first selecting the particular burner on a small legend map (see photo) of the burners that is part of the control panel, then then you set the power setting for that burner. To use a second burner, you select that second burner from the legend and then select its power setting. When two or more burners are in use, if you need to adjust the heat for one of them, it’s very easy to mistakenly adjust the wrong one. The only indication you get for which burner is active (for the controls) is that the current active burner will show slightly brighter than the other burners on the legend map.
3. When using two or more burners simultaneously, you cannot just press the power button to turn off the currently active burner; doing so turns off the entire cooktop. Instead, you need to select the desired burner, then set its power level to zero; this will turn off that one burner while leaving the other burner(s) unchanged.
4. The controls include built-in count down and count up timers. The count up timer is peculiar. It displays seconds counting up to 59, then, rather than displaying minutes and seconds, it switches to displaying only minutes. This is the cheap way to do it, saving the cost of two more LED digits in the display. For longer timings, this probably wouldn’t matter. However, when I am brewing a cup of coffee, since I typically want it to brew for 2 ½ to 3 ½ minutes, this timer operation is not useful. (Note that in the cooktop phone app, this timer does continue to display both minutes and seconds. However, if I were inclined to open my phone, I could just use a phone timer and skip the cooktop app)
5. When cookware is removed from an active “burner”, the controls automatically turn the power off after a few seconds. I listed this above as a plus. The minus side of this feature is that the timeout is very short. Sometimes when pouring water from a kettle, the burner turns off before I set the kettle back down. It would be nice if the length of this timeout period was adjustable.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com
Customer Rating
4
Advanced but quirky
on April 20, 2023
Posted by: BoschEd
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I have been pleased with the Bosch cooktop. I am still learning some of the many features; but I love its flexibility and efficiency. One thing that has come up repeatedly is how easy the unit turns on. The interface is very sensitive to touch, and this often results in unwanted engagement.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com
Customer Rating
1
My Beeping Bosh!!!
on August 14, 2023
Posted by: Fixit Guy
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This Bosh 800 induction cooktop is 10 years old. After a few years, every once in a while, it would start beeping when turned on. We would just reset it by turning off the electrical breaker in the house main breaker panne. Last week it began beeping and flashing all light constantly. Resetting did not stop the lights and beeping. I searched the internet for solutions and have tried a few but to no avail. It likely needs a new motherboard. However, the cost of the repair is not worth the investment. I really thought that a solid state electrical appliance with no moving parts, that has has little to no heat while in use would have lasted much longer.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from bosch-home.comBy CM, CS, August 16, 2023
Hi Fixit Guy, we apologize this has been your experience, and we appreciate you bringing it to our attention. If service is needed, please click this link for authorized service in your area: https://bit.ly/3fACuUW. If you have more questions, please call our Customer Support at 800-944-2904 for real-time assistance. We hope this information helps, and thank you for choosing Bosch.
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com
Customer Rating
4
Still Learning
on November 22, 2024
Posted by: Frank
Overall things are great. There is a definite learning curve in what the heat levels really are as to what is medium, medium high etc.
It would be nice to have the specific edges of the elements delineated. I'm still trying to figure out what pans work best on the different elements.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting bosch-home.com