Abstract: A cooking appliance, particularly an elevated-mounted cooking appliance, comprising: at least one muffle, which delimits a cooking compartment and whose muffle opening is surrounded by a muffle frame; a door for closing the muffle opening; a drive device, which is controlled by a control circuit and which serves to displace the door, and; a pinching protection device for identifying a pinching instance. Once a pinching instance has been identified by the pinching protection device, the drive device can be controlled by the control circuit so that a force applied to the door does not exceed a specified force time profile.