The present application discloses a cooking control method and a cooking appliance. The method comprises: controlling a heating module to heat watered ingredients; in a heating process, detecting whether an equilibrium condition is satisfied, wherein the equilibrium condition comprises that the temperature change amount within a set time does not exceed the set change amount threshold, and the settime and/or the set change amount threshold is related to the watering condition of the ingredients; when detecting that the equilibrium condition is satisfied, determining that a boiling state is satisfied; and controlling the heating module to reduce the heating power, during the continuously heating process, detecting whether the equilibrium condition is satisfied, and controlling the cookingprocess according to a re-detection result. According to the technical scheme of the present application, an equilibrium condition that is compatible with the watering condition of the ingredients isset, on one hand, the timing of converting a boiling state into a low-heat state can be automatically determined according to the equilibrium condition, and on the other hand, after entering the low-heat state, the cooking process is controlled according to the equilibrium condition once again, so that the phenomenon of over cooking due to less watering can be prevented, the burden on the user canbe reduced in a facilitated manner, and a better cooking result can be obtained.