Patent ID: 6933483
Filing Date: 2005-08-23
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
1. A microwave oven which controls an operation of registering cooking courses in a favorites menu of the microwave oven, comprising: a heating unit to cook food; a storage unit which stores the cooking courses and the favorites menu, wherein the cooking courses include at least one pre-stored cooking course having corresponding cooking information to automatically carry out a cooking operation corresponding to the pre-stored cooking course, and at least one user definable cooking course having arbitrarily set cooking information to automatically carry out a cooking operation corresponding to the user definable cooking course, and wherein the favorites menu includes at least one of the pre-stored cooking courses and at least one of the user definable cooking courses; an input unit which receives the cooking courses to be registered in the favorites menu; and a controller which controls the storage unit so as to allow the cooking courses corresponding to the favorites menu input through the input unit to be registered and stored in the storage unit.