Cooking appliance

A cooking appliance, comprising:

• a cooking chamber;
• a heating stage for heating a food product within the cooking chamber;
• a humidity adjustment stage for adjusting humidity within the cooking chamber;
• a user interface configured to allow a user to specify a texture of said food product and a degree of browning of said food product;
• a controller responsive to the user interface and configured to control, the heating stage and the humidity adjustment stage, in accordance with an algorithm having the user-specified texture of said food product and the user-specified degree of browning of said food product as parameters;
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• a valve arrangement responsive to the controller, the valve arrangement having a first inlet fluidly coupled to the heating stage, a second inlet fluidly coupled to the humidity adjustment stage, and an outlet fluidly coupled to the cooking chamber, wherein the valve arrangement is configured to change a mixing ratio between dry heat from the heating stage and humid heat from the humidity adjustment stage, and wherein the valve arrangement is arranged as a switch such that the controller switches between the heating stage and the humidity adjustment stage in accordance with the algorithm.