The invention discloses a microwave oven control method and device. The method comprises steps that heating operation of a microwave oven is interrupted, when reception of a target instruction of themicrowave oven is detected, the identity information of a target object is acquired, the target object is an object using the microwave oven, and the target instruction is an instruction used for indicating the microwave oven to carry out heating operation; a target control mode is selected according to the identity information of the target object; the microwave oven is controlled for operation based on the selected target control mode. The method is advantaged in that a problem of poor experience of a user because of the single operation process of a microwave oven in the prior art is solved, intelligence of the microwave oven is improved, and the experience effect of the user is improved.