Get the best from your appliance

Here you can find out useful information regarding your appliance. Discover such details as the optimal temperatures to store your food or clean your clothes and dishes.

Recommended temperature setting

You can set the temperature in the refrigerator compartment from 3 °C to 8 °C. However, the recommended temperature in the refrigerator compartment is 4 °C. While the temperature in the cool-fresh compartment is kept at around 0 °C. The temperature in the freezer compartment can be set from -16 °C to -24 °C. We recommend long-term storage of food should be at -18 °C or lower.

Impact of temperature

How long you can store you food in the freezer compartment just have a look at the imprinted freezer calendar. It indicates the maximum storage duration in months at a constant temperature of -18 °C.

Where and how to store stuff

You can keep dairy products, eggs, ready meals, pastries, open pre-serves and hard cheese in the refrigerator compartment. In the cool-fresh compartment, you can keep fresh food fresh up to three times longer than in the refrigerator compartment. For more tips have a look at our user manuals.

Save energy and water

Using the appliance allows you to save energy and water compared to washing-up by hand. With Gaggenau dishwashers, you can save up to 8,500 litres of water per year.*

*Internal research based on comparing washing dishes with a dishwasher versus hand-washing. 40 litres (manual washing) - 9,5 litres (with dishwasher), 8.500-litre saving calculation is based on 280 cycles per year.

Save energy and water

You want to save even more water and energy? Load the machine with the number of place settings specified.

Right use of detergent

We recommend to set the rinse aid and the water softening system to the separate detergent or combined detergent in use. The function of rinse aid is limited with combined detergents. You will generally get better results using rinse aid. For more tips have a look at our user manuals.

Amount of loading

The right amount of loaded cloth has an effect on the energy and water consumption. Also to prevent creasing, take note of the maximum load for the relevant "program“.

Right dosage

Use the correct detergent dosage to achieve optimal washing results and save resources. The detergent dosage depends on: the amount of laundry, degree of soiling and water hardness. The dosing recommendation we are giving aimed at the maximum load for the program.

Which detergent for which cloth

You can protect your appliance and your laundry by selecting and using the correct detergents and care products. For example: do not mix different liquid detergents. For more tips have a look at our user manuals.