Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system having at least two kitchen appliances; an electronic resource storage device for storing a list of kitchen appliances comprised by the system and/or for storing the number of users which are available for the preparation of one or more foods; a recipe storage device for storing a recipe for the preparation of a food; an optimizing device configured such that it optimizes the preparation of one or more foods, taking into account information for the system comprised by a recipe; a control device for the preparation of one or more foods according to a sequence of process steps optimized by the optimizing device. The present disclosure also relates to a method for preparing a food using the system.