Abstract: A method for cooking and/or heating foods includes the step of supplying steam expansion chamber including a deformable and/or mobile containment wall partially delimiting an enclosure configured for receiving foods to be heated and/or cooked. The steam expansion chamber is adjacent to the enclosure receiving foods to be heated and/or cooked.

Abstract: A control device for a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance including a cooking chamber designed to receive at least one predetermined food or a plurality of ingredients of a predetermined recipe, a heating component for heating the cooking chamber, the control device including a control unit arranged to determine at least one combination of predetermined cooking parameters as a function at least of the specific surface area of the at least one unitary element of the at least one predetermined food or the at least one ingredient of the plurality of ingredients of the predetermined recipe inserted into the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance, the specific surface area being estimated from descriptive parameters of the at least one unitary element of the predetermined food or the at least one ingredient from among the plurality of ingredients of the predetermined recipe.

Abstract: Provided is a method for cooking and/or heating foods that include the step of supplying steam to a steam expansion chamber (3) including a deformable and/or mobile containment wall (4) partially delimiting an enclosure (2) receiving foods to be heated and/or cooked. Also provided is an appliance for cooking and/or heating foods, including a steam generating device (1) and an enclosure (2) for receiving the foods to be heated and/or cooked. The appliance includes a steam expansion chamber (3) supplied with steam by the steam generating device (1), and the steam expansion chamber (3) includes a deformable and/or mobile containment wall (4) partially delimiting the enclosure (2).

Abstract: A vessel for preparing and cooking in a household electrical appliance includes a substantially horizontal bottom wall and one or more substantially vertical walls connected to the periphery of the bottom wall via a connecting wall, wherein the connecting wall has at least a radius of curvature greater than 30 mm.

Abstract: Described is a device for preparing and cooking in the form of a household electrical appliance, including a vessel having a substantially horizontal bottom wall and one or more substantially vertical walls connected to the periphery of the bottom wall via a connecting wall. The device includes at least one blade or paddle for mixing and kneading ingredients such as bread dough placed in the vessel, wherein the blade or paddle, in its mixing and kneading position, leaves an underlying space between the blade and the bottom wall of the vessel.