Cooking appliance having a specific door-opening device for the automatic pivoting of a retractable door of the cooking appliance, and method

A cooking appliance, comprising;

• a housing delimiting a stowage compartment;
• a door for closing a cooking compartment, said door designed for retraction into the stowage compartment;
• a guide device designed to guide the door when being moved into the stowage compartment or out of the stowage compartment, said guide device including a guide track in a wall which delimits the stowage compartment, and a guide carriage connected to the door and including a guide runner guided in the guide track and connected to a connecting rod of the guide carriage;
• and
• a door-opening device for automatic movement of the door at least in one region over an entire movement path measured between a closed position and an open position of the door, said door-opening device including a coupling rod which is mechanically coupled directly to the connecting rod such as to permit a relative movement between the coupling rod and the connecting rod, and which is mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation oriented in a heightwise direction so that, when the coupling rod is pivoted about the axis of rotation, the connecting rod is carried along in a depthwise direction of the cooking appliance,
• wherein the coupling rod includes a carrier which is oriented in the heightwise direction and is coupled directly to the connecting rod, and
• the carrier is a U-shaped bracket which surrounds the connecting rod.