ESTABLISHING A DEGREE OF BROWNING OF FOOD TO BE COOKED

摘要

The invention relates to a method for establishing a degree of browning of food to be cooked (G1-G3) in a cooking chamber (2) of a household cooking device (1), which household cooking device (1) has a camera (7) directed into the cooking chamber (2) and a light source (8) for illuminating the cooking chamber (2), and wherein a reference image is captured by means of the camera (7), a first measurement image is captured at a first brightness of the light source (8), a second measurement image is captured at a second brightness of the light source (8), a difference image (MD1, MD2) is generated from the first measurement image and the second measurement image, and the difference image is compared (BB, H) with the reference image. A household cooking device (1) has a camera (7) directed into the cooking chamber (2), a light source (8) for illuminating the cooking chamber (2), and a control device (9) coupled to the camera (7) and the light source (8), wherein the household cooking device (1) is configured for carrying out the method. The invention can be particularly advantageously applied to ovens.