Kitchen brand Pelgrim stops producing gas cooktops and ranges after 70 years

Dutch brand is first in industry to announce gas-free offering

Dutch kitchen brand Pelgrim is the first player in the industry to announce a complete halt to the production and sale of gas cooktops and stoves. The company, which has marketed gas cooktops since 1952, is focusing entirely on electric cooktops in view of the energy transition.

The company is focusing entirely on electric cooktops, especially the popular induction cooktops from its own factory. Convenience, safety and durability are the main reasons why over 95% of people choose induction when buying a new cooktop.

The last Pelgrim gas appliances still in stock at kitchen specialty stores may still be sold. Consumers with gas appliances can still contact Pelgrim for questions. For your information, Pelgrim's website only lists the last models that may still be for sale in stores. 

The original Dutch Pelgrim brand was founded in 1920 with the opening of the N.V. enamel factory Neerlandia by Messrs. J.M.G. Oorsprong and B.J. Pelgrim. After the discovery of natural gas, the first houses in the Netherlands were connected to natural gas in 1951. A year after that, Pelgrim started producing its gas stoves and later gas stoves. In 2022, the last Pelgrim gas cooktop rolled off the assembly line.

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Pilgrim has been at home in every kitchen for more than 100 years. The kitchen, the lively heart where cooking, laughing, eating, crying and celebrating takes place. Pelgrim wants to make it beautiful and easy in the kitchen, so that you have time to enjoy yourself at home. Because no matter how beautiful your kitchen is, at the end of the day it's all about how you use your appliances. Does the equipment have the functions you think are important? And do you know how to use those functions correctly? These are the questions the people at Pelgrim also ask themselves when designing and developing new kitchen appliances. That's just Pilgrim.