Switching device and method for operating a switching device

A switching device for an electrical cooking appliance, wherein said switching device has:

• a housing,
• a switch in said housing, said switch being designed adjustably, in its position inside said housing or in its shape, for setting different cycle times for a cyclic operation of said switch,
• an adjusting device for setting different cycle times or a different cycle behavior of said switch, which acts mechanically on said switch, wherein said adjusting device has a rotary shaft with a varying contour device arranged thereon, which is arranged on said rotary shaft and has along a circumferential direction a varying contour or a varying radius,
• an electrothermic tripping device for said switch, wherein said tripping device has a heating element and two electrical connections to said heating element, wherein at least one connection has two disconnectable connecting contacts in a current path of said connection,
• wherein
• said switching device has a disconnector which is designed to act mechanically on one of said connections of said tripping device in order to disconnect its two connecting contacts,
• said disconnector is designed such that it may be moved directly or indirectly in at least one disconnecting rotary angle range of said rotary shaft by said contour device, in order to disconnect said connecting contacts in a disconnecting rotary angle range, and otherwise not.