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What you will notice
The pattern is clean and repeatable. The pot sits on the zone, heating, you lift it for a few seconds to toss the contents or check the bottom, and the zone drops out with E25. Putting the pot back may or may not restart the zone. The cooktop is responding to the sudden loss of the load, and the question is whether that response matches its design. Pan detection is what lets an induction zone start and keep running, so a zone that reacts to a lifted pan is using that same function.
Checks you can do yourself
- Lift the pot only briefly and see whether the zone recovers when it returns within a couple of seconds.
- Use a different pan to check whether the response depends on cookware size or material.
- Check the manual for a note on pan-removal behavior, with the model number ready.
Where the work starts inside the cooktop
If the response seems too touchy or too slow, the first look goes to the detection circuit of the zone, the coil and the connection beneath it. A zone that was tolerant of brief lifts in the past and no longer is suggests that one of these has changed.
What the code does and does not tell us
E25 has no single confirmed definition on all Bertazzoni cooktops. On induction models, lifting a pan is a known trigger for a status message, and the display may indeed report it with a code in some generations. Others treat it silently, which is why the model number decides what is normal. A zone that drops out and restarts when the pan returns is behaving differently from one that stays off until the power level is selected again, and that difference is worth describing.
Woks and tossing food in a pan are common triggers, as is shaking a pan to loosen a sauce. If you cook that way, tell us what you were doing.
Some cooks use the pan-lift behavior as a safety feature, because the zone stops heating when nothing is on it. If that is the normal design on your model, the code may simply be a reminder. We will confirm that against the model’s documentation when you give us the number.
When to book a visit
If the cooktop used to tolerate a short lift and now trips every time, a technician should test the detection response with known cookware. That needs the cooktop open and live and is not an owner task. If it was always like that, the visit simply confirms normal behavior, and we tell you so.
Frequently asked questions
On many induction designs, yes. It is a protective feature, though the display wording varies by model.
If the pan returns quickly, the zone may resume. The timing depends on the model.
Only if the behavior is new or inconsistent. Report it if it started recently.
Model compatibility: Bertazzoni reuses codes across series and model years, so E25 may mean something different on another appliance or generation. Confirm this against your model’s documentation and record your full model number before acting.
