Patent ID: 8766144

Claim:
An oven for cooking a food item, the oven comprising: a cooking cavity for receiving the food item during cooking; a rack for supporting the food item within the cooking cavity; at least one heating element operable to heat the cooking cavity and elevate a temperature of the food item supported on the rack within the cooking cavity; a user interface comprising an input device to be manipulated by a cook for inputting a request for activation of a predetermined cooking mode specific to a type of the food item and associated with the input device by using a single actuation event, the cooking mode selected by the single actuation event being responsive to an internal property of the food item, wherein said activation of the predetermined cooking mode is requested in response to the single actuation event without requiring an additional input, separate from the single actuation event, to be entered by the cook via the user interface; a sensor to be at least partially inserted into the food item to sense the internal property of the food item while the food item is exposed to heat from the at least one heating element within the cooking cavity and transmit a control signal indicative of the internal property; and a control unit operatively connected to the sensor to receive the internal property sensed by the sensor, and the user interface to receive a cooking signal in response to the single actuation event performed by the cook to request the predetermined cooking mode and initiate the predetermined cooking mode in response to receiving the cooking signal, wherein the control unit controls the predetermined cooking mode responsive to the internal property indicated by the control signal.