Patent ID: 7196292

Claim:
Method for controlling a cooking process in a cooking space of a cooking appliance as a function of the dew point in the interior of the cooking appliance, comprising: (a) introducing at least one food item to be cooked, at least one accessory, and at least one reference body with the same thermal behavior as that of the accessory into the cooking space; (b) determining climate parameters of temperature and humidity at the reference body during the cooking process; (c) using an evaluation unit to determine, as a function of the climate parameters determined in step (b), the actual extent to which the temperature at the reference body is above or below the dew point; and (d) adjusting at least one of the humidity and the temperature in the cooking space during the cooking process as a function of the extent, determined in step (c), to which the temperature is above or below the dew point, so that the climate in the cooking space is controlled as a function of the dew point; wherein a sensor is used to measure at least one of the temperature and the humidity in the cooking space, on the basis of which the dew point at least at one of the reference body, the surface of the reference body, and the accessory, is determined, and wherein the sensor is inserted, introduced, or integrated at least partially into the accessory or the reference body.