Appliance, in particular cooking appliance

A cooking appliance comprising:

• a cooking cavity having a back wall, opposing lateral side walls, and a front opening opposite the back wall, the cavity defining a maximum depth dimension along a depth direction extending between the back wall and the front opening;
• opposing rails disposed adjacent to the opposing lateral side walls and extending along the depth direction;
• a tray rack mounted within the cooking cavity via at least one of said opposing rails and being translatable therealong in the depth direction between a fully inserted position located adjacent to the back wall of the cavity and a fully withdrawn position located more remote from the back wall of the cavity, said tray rack defining a first plurality of vertically spaced grooves that extend along the depth direction adjacent to a first of the opposing lateral side walls of the cavity, each of the first plurality of vertically spaced grooves being configured to accommodate and support a first lateral edge of a tray therein adjacent to said first opposing lateral side wall;
• a hinged door configured to reversibly open and close the front opening of the cooking cavity by pivoting about a pivot axis that extends perpendicular to the depth direction and is located below a lower end of the front opening;
• and
• a first coupling member pivotally interconnecting said tray rack with said door and being configured such that:
• when said door is pivoted into a closed position closing the front opening, said tray rack is thereby kinematically translated along said at least one of the opposing rails into the fully inserted position, and
• when said door is pivoted into a fully opened position such that the door is oriented substantially horizontally adjacent to the lower end of the front opening, said tray rack is thereby kinematically translated along said at least one of the opposing rails into the fully withdrawn position;
• wherein a first fulcrum defined between the coupling member and the tray rack is located in an upper third or a lower third of the tray rack in relation to its height measured perpendicular to the depth direction and parallel to an area of the front opening, and a second fulcrum defined between the coupling member and the door is located, with regard to the door in the door closed position, in a lower third of the door in relation to its height measured perpendicular to the depth direction and parallel to the area of the front opening;
• wherein said tray rack has a depthwise extension that is 10% to 50% of the maximum depth dimension;
• and
• wherein the depthwise extension of the tray rack and a configuration of the first coupling member are such that in said fully withdrawn position of said tray rack:
• the tray rack does not emerge out of the cooking cavity through said front opening, and
• a tray having a depth of approximately the maximum depth dimension of the cooking cavity, when seated within one of said first plurality of vertically spaced grooves in the tray rack, will emerge out of the cooking cavity through said front opening such that a front edge of such tray will be graspable by a user at a position located outside the cooking cavity.