Cooking appliance with automatic timer and reminder

A cooking appliance comprising:

• a cabinet;
• a user interface comprising an input selector on the cabinet;
• a cooking chamber defined in the cabinet, the cooking chamber configured for receipt of food items for cooking;
• a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet at a front portion of the cooking chamber, whereby the door is rotatable between a closed positioned where the cooking chamber is sealingly enclosed and an open position which permits access to the cooking chamber;
• a heating element disposed within the cabinet and in thermal communication with the cooking chamber for cooking the food items received in the cooking chamber;
• and
• a controller, the controller configured for:
• receiving an input, the input comprising a set temperature;
• activating the heating element of the cooking appliance in response to the received input;
• detecting first opening and a first closing of the door of the cooking appliance;
• automatically initiating a timer when the first closing of the door is detected;
• determining, when the automatically initiated timer reaches a first predetermined time limit, whether a manual timer has been initiated;
• sending a first user notification when the manual timer has not been initiated at the first predetermined time limit;
• continuing to run the automatically initiated timer after the first predetermined time limit;
• detecting a second opening and a second closing of the door;
• recording a time of the second closing of the door;
• determining, when the automatically initiated timer reaches a second predetermined time limit, whether the heating element is still activated;
• and
• sending a second user notification when the heating element is still activated at the end of the second predetermined time limit, the second user notification comprising a prompt to turn the cooking appliance off.