Control arrangement for cooking devices

A control arrangement for cooking devices each with an embedded control for regulating cooking processes whose various parameters can be set by actuating elements at the respective cooking device, comprising:

• an external programming unit comprising hand-held programming means for setting and storing, independently from the embedded controls of the respective cooking devices, different simple cooking programs and/or optional combination cooking programs or complex cooking programs, diagnostic programs and user functions which can be called, checked and changed optionally and for transmitting such programs to the embedded control of each cooking device, said hand-held programming means including a plain text display, a user guide, and a wireless transmitter for transmitting the set cooking programs and user functions, said hand-held programming means as a program unit including means for storing optionally combined cooking programs or complex cooking programs under an identification code and transmitting the stored combined cooking programs or complex cooking programs to each of the embedded controls, each of the embedded controls including means for activating the transmitted combined cooking programs or complex cooking programs by the same adjustable identification code.