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A microwave oven includes a cooking unit for cooking a food according to a cooking program and a memory slot to which a first type of external memory and a second type of external memory are detachably attached. These memories respectively store main cooking information and sub-cooking information. Each main cooking information is related to at least one sub-cooking information. The microwave oven further includes a main cooking information selection unit for use in selection of main cooking information stored in the external memory attached to the memory slot, a sub-cooking information selection unit for assisting user selection of sub-cooking information stored in the second type of external memory attached to the memory slot and related to the selected main cooking information to prepare a menu, a menu memory for storing a series of cooking programs selected by the user as a menu, a cooking controller for applying the cooking programs stored in the cooking memory to the cooking unit in a predetermined order and executing the programs, and a display for displaying information required for the user to prepare a menu by the main cooking and the sub-cooking information selection units and displaying information relating to the cooking program to be executed prior to execution of the cooking program by the cooking controller.
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