Patent ID: 8043642

Claim:
A method of regulating a cooking process for a foodstuff in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance with a heating element and a sensor, said method having the following steps: a) input of a foodstuff indicator to be cooked by an operator into a controller of said cooking appliance; b) detection by said sensor of a concentration over time of a gas or of moisture escaping from said foodstuff in said cooking chamber after said foodstuff has been introduced; c) determination of a gradient of a profile of said detected concentration over the course of time; d) reading out of a trigger value linked to said foodstuff to be cooked for said profile from a memory of said controller; e) determination of the time at which said trigger value is reached or fallen below; f) determination of a run-on time linked to a time at which said trigger value is reached for said foodstuff from said memory at said time at which said trigger value is reached, a length of a run-on time being a function of said time at which said trigger value is reached; g) starting of said run-on time; and h) continuation of said cooking process as a run-on process until said run-on time has elapsed if said value remains below said trigger value.