A cooking appliance having at least one control unit with a touch-sensitive control strip whose setting sections are assigned to control point ranges of a predetermined control curve, wherein the cooking appliance is a cooking device - in which the control strip extends in a straight line, - in which the control strip is associated with a display strip whose display sections are associated with corresponding setting sections of the control strip, with each having one or more light-emitting diodes, - in which the activation of the display sections follows the contacting of the setting sections, - in which the contacting of a setting section results in the activation of a band of display sections emanating from a predetermined end of the display strip, and in which the activation of the display section or sections of the display strip is maintained until the next contact with the control strip, - in which the display sections have plate regions that can be connected to one another and to the plate regions of the setting sections, - in which the plate regions of the setting and/or display sections form an control and/or display panel that is part of a casing of the cooking appliance, - in which at least the control and/or display panel that forms part of the casing is dielectric and plate-shaped and part of the front panel of the cooking appliance, - in which the control strip, when seen from top to bottom, consists of a cover, a labeling mask, and dielectric carrier bearing metallic sensor surfaces, - in which the cover is a glass plate and incorporated or integrated into the front panel of the cooking appliance, - in which the sensor surfaces are arranged in a line and form a sensor strip, - in which the display strip consists of the cover and a carrier bearing light-emitting diodes that also carries the dielectric carrier, and - in which the carrier bearing light-emitting diodes is embodied as a printed circuit board and the dielectric carrier consists of a conductive foil. - in which the control strip extends in a straight line, - in which the control strip is associated with a display strip whose display sections are associated with corresponding setting sections of the control strip, with each having one or more light-emitting diodes, - in which the activation of the display sections follows the contacting of the setting sections, - in which the contacting of a setting section results in the activation of a band of display sections emanating from a predetermined end of the display strip, and in which the activation of the display section or sections of the display strip is maintained until the next contact with the control strip, - in which the display sections have plate regions that can be connected to one another and to the plate regions of the setting sections, - in which the plate regions of the setting and/or display sections form an control and/or display panel that is part of a casing of the cooking appliance, - in which at least the control and/or display panel that forms part of the casing is dielectric and plate-shaped and part of the front panel of the cooking appliance, - in which the control strip, when seen from top to bottom, consists of a cover, a labeling mask, and dielectric carrier bearing metallic sensor surfaces, - in which the cover is a glass plate and incorporated or integrated into the front panel of the cooking appliance, - in which the sensor surfaces are arranged in a line and form a sensor strip, - in which the display strip consists of the cover and a carrier bearing light-emitting diodes that also carries the dielectric carrier, and - in which the carrier bearing light-emitting diodes is embodied as a printed circuit board and the dielectric carrier consists of a conductive foil.