A cooking apparatus, cooking system, and cooking control method using a
bar code, in which automatic cooking of food is performed when the bar
code attached to a package of the food is lost or damaged. The cooking
apparatus for cooking food using cooking data includes a memory for
storing identification data and cooking data of the food; an image
capture device for obtaining an image of the food; and a controller for
identifying the food by comparing the image of the food to the
identification data of the food, stored in the memory, obtaining the
cooking data of the identified food, and controlling the cooking
apparatus so that the cooking of the food is performed based on the
cooking data.