Patent ID: 7378620

Claim:
An oven control system comprising a display screen, a data input device and a calculation unit, wherein the calculation unit is configured to interpret data received from sensors, to send instructions to the display screen, to control heating elements and to receive instructions from the data input device, wherein the calculation unit is further configured to select cooking programs at least as a function of a first criterion of a family of products to be cooked, of a product to be cooked within a family, or of a recipe or of a method of cooking and to adjust the cooking program according to at least one second internal final criterion relating to a characteristic of the product on termination of the cooking and one third external final criterion relating to a characteristic of the product on termination of the cooking, wherein the display screen is configured to display the selected values of the criteria simultaneously or the values of the criteria currently being selected by a user simultaneously, wherein the display screen is configured to display unselected values of the criteria in such a way that the selected values can be read graphically, wherein the display screen comprises a display zone for displaying the values of the second and the third criteria, and wherein the display zone is configured to display a window adapted to each type of product.