Patent ID: 6299921
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: A23L,A47J,F24C

Abstract:
In a method for cooking a food product in a cooking device comprising a cooking space and a measuring device for registering values of at least one doneness quantity relating to a characteristic of the food product, the value of which doneness quantity changes on the basis of a cooking process, whereby the time of the end of the cooking process is extrapolated at various times during the cooking process by applying the respective last registered measurement values and a prescribed final value of a doneness quantity at the end of the cooking process, the improvements comprising obtaining at least one value of a time derivative, guiding the course of the cooking process on at least one measured value of a doneness quantity and on one or more values of a time derivative of the doneness quantity during the cooking process, and during the cooking process, defining at least one value of a setting point of the cooking device that influences the cooking process so as to depend on a time derivative, during the cooking process, of a doneness quantity.