A method for controlling a delta-T cooking process includes (a) selecting of a set core temperature KT.sub.s and a delta-T value for the food to be cooked, (b) introducing the food to be cooked into the cooking space at an initial core temperature KT.sub.0; (c) increasing the actual cooking space temperature GT.sub.a as a function of the actual core temperature KT.sub.a over the course of at least one first time interval in such a way that an essentially constant difference approximately on the order of magnitude of the delta-T value is maintained between GT.sub.a and KT.sub.a until KT.sub.a=KT.sub.s+A and thus corresponds to a maximum value GT.sub.a-r, where A is a temperature value smaller than delta-T; and finally (d) stepwise and/or continuously decreasing the actual cooking space temperature GT.sub.a during a second time interval to a final cooking space temperature of GT.sub.e=KT.sub.s+B, where B is a temperature value of 0.ltoreq.B