Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a kitchen appliance system (100), preferably for automatically processing at least one working stage (12.1) of a recipe (12) for preparing a dish (11), with the aid of a central control device (15) having at least one user input device (15.2) and an interface (15.3), the kitchen appliance system (100) comprising at least two kitchen appliances (10) which are entered in an appliance list and each kitchen appliance (10) from the appliance list having an interface (10.9), whereby this can be controlled by the central control device (15), wherein each kitchen appliance (10) has at least one appliance function (10.7), which can be selected and/or set by at least one parameter (10.8), in order to carry out at least one working stage (12.1) from the recipe (12) for the preparation of the food (11) automatically by the respective appliance function (10.7) of the kitchen appliance (10). According to the invention, it is provided that the user input device (15.