COOKING APPLIANCE WITH POWER SHARING

A cooking appliance utilizes a rechargeable battery to selectively power one or more electric cooking elements of the cooking appliance instead of using an external power source such as a residential power circuit whenever the combined power demand of the active electric cooking elements exceeds the available power from the external power source, e.g., by causing an electric cooking element to be powered by the rechargeable battery instead of the external power source based at least in part on an activation state of another electric cooking element.