Microwave oven for heating the contents of a cup

摘要

The present invention relates to a microwave oven and more particularly to an apparatus and a method of heating a cup in a microwave oven by judging quantity of food in the cup on the basis of variation degree of an initial temperature and compensating a cooking temperature. The method of heating the cup according to the present invention comprises the steps of detecting variation degree of the temperature for initial uniform time period, judging the quantity of the subject matter on the basis of the detected variation degree of the temperature, estimating the raised temperature on the basis of quantity of the subject matter, comparing the estimated temperature with the temperature detected by sensor to determine the higher temperature as a current temperature, and executing the cooking mode until the current temperature is raised to the set cooking temperature.