The invention relates to method for operating at lest one cooking appliance comprising a cooking chamber, an input device, a display and a memory device. According to said method, a plurality of work programs for the cooking appliance can be called up from the memory device, including a time that is characteristic of the execution of every work program. Said time is defined, in addition to the duration of the work program, by a preparation time for preparing the program sequence and/or a follow-up time for following up the execution of the work program. The display device is able to display a representative of every stored work program, the respective associated time being displayed above every representative displayed.