70 years of pressure cooking

1958

Vitavit® pressure cooker

The Fissler Vitavit® pressure cooker is now available with a distinctive red lid. The pot's safety valve was the first of its kind and continues to protect flavors and vitamins to this day.

1962

Patented Unimatik

Fissler patents the Unimatik – a “safety and venting valve for a pressure cooker”. Besides automatically venting excess pressure, the valve prevents, for the first time, the unwanted escape of the cooker's contents through the valve.

1969

The first quick frying pans

Sixteen years after the worldwide success of the pressure cooker, Fissler responds to the needs of passionate cooks and launches the first pressure frying pan.

1973

New production facility

Leading technology: In Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, 25 km from Idar-Oberstein, Fissler opened a new production facility. This laid the foundation for the sustainable production of premium cookware – Made in Germany. To this day, every Fissler pressure cooker is produced in Hoppstädten-Weiersbach and inspected by hand.

1976

The Fissler Solaryme

The Fissler pressure cooker appears for the first time with the iconic solar design, which reflects the colors of the Hoppstädten-Weiersbach coat of arms. The design proudly signifies the Fissler brand's origin – "Made in Germany" – and remains particularly popular in Asia. Products featuring this traditional design are still successfully sold internationally under the name "Solaryme."

1982

The Quattro quick frying pan

Fissler presents the Quattro frying pan. Combined with the additional lid, this frying pan becomes a true all-rounder, capable of quickly cooking, frying, steaming, and deep-frying.

1989

Pressure cookers in floral design

In the 1980s, Fissler and the Annweiler Enamel & Metal Works, a specialist in enamelled cookware in Germany, captured the spirit of a generation. The floral, colorful designs of their enamelled pressure cookers captivated passionate cooks worldwide and set a trend in the industry.

1992

The Magic Series

With the Magic series, Fissler defined new standards in function and design at the end of the 1980s. The innovative look of the new Fissler pressure cooker set benchmarks for an entire category.

1995

The Vitaquick® pressure cookers

Fissler introduces the Vitaquick® pressure cookers. They impress with all the essential functions of a safe pressure cooker and offer an uncomplicated entry into the world of healthy and flavorful pressure cooking – “Made in Germany”.

2009

Brand's claim to leadership

The Vitavit® Premium and Vitaquick® pressure cookers are becoming even better and safer: a cooking and locking indicator, the multi-stage safety system with patented technology and up to 90% recycled 18/10 stainless steel define Fissler's leading position in pressure cooking.

2021

The Vitavit® Premium pressure cooker

Leading technology and premium materials: the Vitavit® Premium pressure cooker now boasts an elegant, satin-finished surface and an additional cooking level: Four cooking levels, including a pressureless steam cooking level for health-conscious steaming of, for example, fish or vegetables, enable even gentler or very fast cooking.

2023

70 years of pressure cooking

70 years of pressure cooking: Fissler celebrates the invention of the safe pressure cooker with two special anniversary editions. The design of the limited-edition Vitavit® and Vitaquick® series is inspired by the fashion and colors of modern art from the 1950s. The pressure cookers feature the "color blocking" design that characterized this era.