Patent ID: 8525082

Claim:
A method for performing an automatic cooking process in an oven, wherein the oven is in a preheated state with a first starting temperature (T 0 ) in the beginning of said automatic cooking process and the method includes the following steps: pre-heating the oven to the first starting temperature (To) by switching on at least one heating element switching off the at least one heating element during a cooling down period ( 10 ), finishing the cooling down period ( 10 ) after a cooling down time (t cd ), when a predetermined first end temperature (T 1 ) has been reached, detecting the cooling down time (t cd ), switching on at least one heating element during a heating up period ( 12 ), and finishing the heating up period ( 12 ) which is subsequent to the cooling down period ( 10 ) after a heating up time (t hu ) and/or when a predetermined second end temperature (T 3 ) has been reached, and wherein further parameters of the cooking process are determined based on the predetermined cooling down time (t cd ) and the heating up time (t hu ).