Patent ID: 7150891

Claim:
In a method for managing a cooking process in a cooking chamber according to a cooking program with at least one cooking process probe with at least two temperature sensors to detect at least two temperature values while the probe is partially inserted into a product to be cooked in the cooking chamber and including determining by the cooking process probe at least two temperature curves selected from a group consisting of a surface temperature T 0 of the product to be cooked, a core temperature KT of the product to be cooked and a cooking chamber temperature, the improvements comprising detecting an existence of a faulty insertion of the cooking probe outside of the product to be cooked by using the recorded temperature curves and determining if the probe is still arranged in the cooking chamber or is arranged outside of the cooking chamber, generating at least one warning signal selected from an acoustical signal, an optical signal and a combination of acoustical and optical signals, if a faulty insertion is detected, at a minimum changing to an emergency program when the cooking process probe is determined to be arranged in the cooking chamber, and at a minimum aborting the cooking program when the cooking process probe is determined to be arranged outside of the cooking chamber.