Patent ID: 7232978

Claim:
A method for controlling a delta-T cooking process, comprising: (a) selecting a set core temperature KT s and a delta-T value for the food to be cooked; (b) introducing the food to be cooked into a cooking space at an initial core temperature KT 0 ; (c) increasing an actual cooking space temperature GT a as a function of an actual core temperature KT a over the course of at least one first time interval in such a way that an essentially constant difference approximately on the order of magnitude of the delta-T value is maintained between GT a and KT a until GT a =KT s +A and thus corresponds to a maximum value GT a-r , where A is a temperature value smaller than delta-T; and (d) stepwise and/or continuously decreasing the actual cooking space temperature GT a during a second time interval to a final cooking space temperature GT e =KT s +B, where B is a temperature value of 0≦B<A, in such a way that, when GT a becomes essentially the same as GT e , KT a reaches KT s substantially simultaneously.