Electric pressure cooking appliance , such as an electric pressure cooker or an electric pressure multi-cooker, comprising: - a housing designed to receive a cooking vessel , - an interface for selecting and/or parameterizing at least one cooking recipe, the at least one cooking recipe being associated, on the one hand, with a type and quantity of the ingredient(s) of the at least one cooking recipe and, on the other hand, with operating parameters of the electric cooking appliance , - a working tool rotatably mounted in the cooking vessel and configured to work on one or more ingredients contained in the cooking vessel , - a drive system comprising an electric motor configured to drive the working tool in rotation, and - a control unit configured to control the operation of the electric cooking appliance by applying the operating parameters associated with the at least one cooking recipe selected and/or parameterized from the selection interface, the control unit being configured to monitor, during the performance of at least one step of the at least one selected and/or parameterized cooking recipe, a determinable value representative of an operating parameter of the electric motor during an operating cycle of the electric motor , the control unit being configured to determine a state of transformation of the consistency of the ingredient(s) contained in the cooking vessel as a function of exceeding a predetermined threshold of the determinable value representative of the operating parameter of the electric motor and to at least adjust the operating parameters of the electric cooking appliance to the selected and/or parameterized cooking recipe as a function of this predetermined threshold being exceeded by the determinable value representative of the operating parameter of the electric motor , characterized in that the control unit is further configured to detect the presence of the working tool in the cooking vessel when the determinable value representative of the operating parameter of the electric motor reaches or exceeds a predetermined threshold value (Is). - a housing designed to receive a cooking vessel , - an interface for selecting and/or parameterizing at least one cooking recipe, the at least one cooking recipe being associated, on the one hand, with a type and quantity of the ingredient(s) of the at least one cooking recipe and, on the other hand, with operating parameters of the electric cooking appliance , - a working tool rotatably mounted in the cooking vessel and configured to work on one or more ingredients contained in the cooking vessel , - a drive system comprising an electric motor configured to drive the working tool in rotation, and - a control unit configured to control the operation of the electric cooking appliance by applying the operating parameters associated with the at least one cooking recipe selected and/or parameterized from the selection interface, the control unit being configured to monitor, during the performance of at least one step of the at least one selected and/or parameterized cooking recipe, a determinable value representative of an operating parameter of the electric motor during an operating cycle of the electric motor , <EOS>