Patent ID: 8734877

Claim:
A method for adjusting a parameter of a cooking process to be executed in a cooking appliance, said parameter relating to a degree of cooking to which food should be cooked in the cooking appliance and having a range of values, the method for adjusting a degree of internal cooking comprising: inputting a selection of a type of food to be cooked in the cooking appliance; displaying a set of pictorial depictions on a display, each of the pictorial depictions representing one of the values in the range, being based on the type of food selected and appearing realistically as a piece of food, with each of the pictorial depictions including an internal section and an external section, the internal sections differing with respect to full cooking adjustment areas which are representative of degree of cooking; inputting a manual selection from among the pictorial depictions; and executing the cooking process in accordance with the value represented by the manually selected pictorial depiction.