Patent ID: 7329841

Claim:
Method for operating an oven, comprising a user inputting a value for at least one parameter of a recipe, according to which a control device of the oven can control the operation of the oven, into the control device via an operating panel of the control device, wherein the value can be input by the user moving a finger along at least a portion of a circuit path within a defined, flat, continuous region of the outer surface of the operating panel, the occurrence of such a movement is monitored, wherein at least one property of such a movement is measured when the movement is detected, wherein the value of the parameter of the recipe is altered in accordance with a measured value for the property of the movement, and wherein at least one of the distance covered by the movement, the speed of the movement and the acceleration of the movement is measured as said property of the movement, and wherein the control device is configured to measure the property of a movement that extends over more than one complete circuit path.