Express cook feature

1. A method for controlling a cooking duration, comprising:

providing a set of tactile keypads for programming a microprocessor wherein said set of tactile keypads includes a group of independent numerical selectors;

pressing once one of said numerical selectors of said set of tactile keypads to immediately initiate a first cooking duration in minutes; and,

pressing again same said one of said numerical selectors to add thirty seconds of cooking duration thereby initiating a second cook time duration during said first cook time duration.

2. A method for controlling a cooking duration, comprising:

providing a set of tactile keypads for programming a microprocessor wherein said set of tactile keypads includes a group of independent numerical selectors;

pressing once one of said numerical selectors of said set of tactile keypads to initiate a cooking duration in minutes;

pressing again same said one of said numerical selectors to add (x) seconds of cooking duration; and,

pressing any one of said numerical selectors to add 1/2 (x) seconds of cooking duration.

3. The method for controlling a cooking duration according to claim 2 , further comprising:

pressing said any one of said numerical selectors to add another 1/2 (x) seconds of cooking duration.

4. The method for controlling a cooking duration according to claim 2 , further comprising:

wherein said group of numerical selectors is selected from the group consisting of tactile numeric keypads 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

5. A control for a cooking apparatus having a microprocessor responsive to a set of tactile keypads, the control comprising:

a numeric selector for initiating a cook time duration in minutes corresponding to the numeric selector with a first press;

same said numeric selector adding (x) time in seconds to said cook time duration with a second press;

said numeric selector is selected from the group consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; and,

wherein any numeric selector adding 1/2 (x) time in seconds to said cook time duration with a third press.

6. The control according to claim 5 , wherein said (x) time is selected from the group consisting of 10, 20, 30, and 40 seconds.

7. The control according to claim 5 , wherein said (x) time is 30 seconds.

8. The control according to claim 5 , wherein said (x) time is 20 seconds.

9. A control for a cooking apparatus having a microprocessor responsive to a set of tactile keypads, the control comprising:

a numeric selector for initiating a cook time duration in minutes corresponding to the numeric selector with a first press;

same said numeric selector adding (x) time in seconds to said cook time duration with a second press;

said numeric selector is selected from the group consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; and,

wherein said any numeric selector adding 1/2 (x) time in seconds to said cook time duration with every third and subsequent press.

10. A method for controlling a cooking duration, comprising:

providing a set of tactile keypads for programming a microprocessor wherein said set of tactile keypads includes a group of independent numerical selectors;

wherein said group of numerical selectors is selected from the group consisting of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6;

pressing once one of said numerical selectors of said set of tactile keypads to immediately initiate a first cooking duration in minutes corresponding to said numerical selector;

pressing again same said one of said numerical selectors to add 30 seconds of cooking duration to said first cooking duration; and,

pressing any one of said numerical selectors to add another 15 seconds of cooking duration to said first cooking duration.

11. The method for controlling a cooking duration according to claim 10 , further comprising:

pressing said any one of said numerical selectors to add another 15 seconds of cooking duration.