Cooking appliance for cooking food, cooking method, control unit, and computer program product

Abstract

The underlying invention is in particular related to a cooking method and cooking appliance () for cooking food (). The cooking appliance may comprise a cooking chamber (); one or more heating elements (); one or more steam generators (); and a control unit (). The control unit () is configured for controlling the one or more heating elements () and the one or more steam generators () for executing a cooking process according to a cooking method. The cooking method may comprise the steps of a) preconditioning the cooking chamber (); b) receiving, via a central opening of the cavity, the one or more food items (); c) steam cooking the received food items () in the cavity, by executing in an alternating manner a first and a second cooking cycle (C, C); and d) finishing the food items ().