The cooking apparatus, using electric heating wire such as nicrome or tungsten wire, shortens a response time of the electric heating wire when electric current starts to be passed or a setting value gets changed. The cooking apparatus comprises a control circuit (30) parallelly connecting the nicrome wire (4) with a halogen lamp (16); an electric power source (34) connected to an end (31a) of a parallel connection circuit (31); an overheat switch (17) and a start switch positioned between the electric power source (34) and the parallel connection switch (31); a hot lamp (19) connected to the power source; a bimetal switch (20) positioned between the power source and the hot lamp.
