Patent ID: 8618450

Claim:
A domestic oven comprising: an oven compartment for receiving food; a heating element to heat the oven compartment for cooking food; a gas sensor in fluid communication with the oven compartment and outputting a signal indicative of the gases emitted by food being cooked in the oven compartment; a central processing unit operably coupled to and controlling the heating element; a user interface operably coupled with the central processing unit and configured to display a setting for a type of food placed in the oven compartment and to display a setting for a desired degree of cooking such that a user can set the type of food placed in the oven compartment and set the desired degree of cooking of the food; and wherein the central processing unit is configured to receive a gas sensor signal, the food type, and the desired degree of cooking, and controls the operation of the heating element to cook the food for a cooking interval until the desired degree of cooking is reached, with a current degree of cooking being determined by filtering the signal from the gas sensor, with an amplitude of filtering selected by the central processing unit depending on the type of food set by the user.