--- title: "Cooktops" description: "Asko calls them hobs, which is the first thing to know when you go looking for a manual, and there are none in the current US catalog — the ones" url: "https://askomiami.support/appliances/cooktop/" date_modified: "2026-09-13" Appliance type: "Cooktops" --- # Asko cooktops ### Called hobs, and none in the US catalog The maker calls them hobs, which is the first obstacle when looking for a manual, and there are none listed for sale here — the ones in South Florida kitchens were fitted when there were. Induction is the majority, with gas alongside it. ### Two families that share no numbers One generator generation prints F-strings, the other prints E and Er strings, and they do not overlap. A meaning taken from the wrong family buys the wrong board. Gas hobs publish no codes at all, which makes them the simpler call rather than the lesser one — flame, spark and gas train, measured. Induction and gas · two code families that do not overlap Cooktop repair Induction hobs in two code families — F-series and E/Er-series, no overlap Gas hobs publish no codes: diagnosis is by flame, ignition and gas train Glass, trim and the cut in the stone decide the access before any part is named Called hobs, and none in the US catalog The maker calls them hobs, which is the first obstacle when looking for a manual, and there are none listed for sale here — the ones in South Florida kitchens were fitted when there were. Induction is the majority, with gas alongside it. Two families that share no numbers One generator generation prints F-strings, the other prints E and Er strings, and they do not overlap. A meaning taken from the wrong family buys the wrong board. Gas hobs publish no codes at all, which makes them the simpler call rather than the lesser one — flame, spark and gas train, measured. ### Three zones work and the fourth does nothing. On induction that usually counts as good news, because one dead zone implicates its own coil or its own section of board and leaves the supply and the main board out of it. Two things to check first, and both are free — that the pan is actually induction-capable, since a magnet on the base settles it, and that the zone is not in a lock or a child-safety state, which looks identical to a failure. If it is neither, the part is usually local to the zone. ### What does Er03 mean? That string places the hob in the E-series family, which narrows the model list immediately — the F-series machines never print it. Within that family the Er and E numbers are documented per model rather than across the range, so we ask for the model code off the underside sticker or the paperwork before saying anything specific. Reading an E-code against an F-series table is how the wrong board gets ordered on this make. ### It clicks and turns itself off after a minute. On an induction hob that pattern is usually heat rather than electronics: the cooling fan under the glass has an air path, that path runs through the cabinet below, and in a tight island with a drawer stack behind it the hob overheats and protects itself. It shows as an intermittent failure that gets worse in the afternoon, which is exactly what a Miami kitchen does to it. Fixing the airflow clears it more often than a part does. ### The glass has a crack. Is it still safe? No — stop using it and isolate it at the breaker. A crack in induction glass lets moisture down onto the coils and the board beneath, and the failure that follows is electrical rather than cosmetic. The glass is a replaceable part on these, and whether it is worth replacing depends on the model and on what the crack has already let through, which is a look rather than a phone call. --- **[Read full article: Cooktops](https://askomiami.support/appliances/cooktop/)**