Cooking apparatus and control method thereof

Abstract

A cooking apparatus includes a cooking chamber configured to receive food, a camera to photograph inside the cooking chamber, the camera having a lens, a memory configured to store a plurality of cooking control information used to cook the food, and a processor configured to control the camera to photograph the food inside the cooking chamber, wherein the processor is configured to extract state information of the food from the photographed image, and determine a contamination degree of the photographed image according to contamination of the lens of the camera, correct the state information of the food based on the determined contamination degree, acquire first cooking control information corresponding to the corrected state information; and, control the cooking chamber to cook the food according to the acquired cooking control information by acquiring cooking control information.