TWI728313B

The objective of the present invention is to automatically carry out cooking that involves processes from searing the surface of meat to heating inside the meat at a low temperature until the same reaches a suitable temperature. A heating cooker (1) causes a steam generating device (21) to operate such that, after cooking of food (31) starts, an initial heating step in which the temperature inside the cooker is increased to a first target temperature by heating and a forcible cooling step in which the temperature inside the cooker is lowered to a temperature lower than the first target temperature by cooling are carried out.