A microwave oven, a relay box communicating with the microwave oven and a personal
computer communicating with the relay box are provided in private. The personal
computer is connected to a host computer storing home page information, through
the public Internet. A home page storing unit of the host computer stores, corresponding
to each of a plurality of cooking recipes, recipe data directly recognized by microwave
oven including heating control data for heating and cooking the cooking recipe
by the microwave oven, a button to be operated for transferring the recipe data
through the Internet to personal computer and image display data for displaying
information related to the cooking recipe as a home page image display. Therefore,
in accordance with the heating control data downloaded and supplied to personal
computer, microwave oven is controlled to heat and cook the desired cooking recipe.