A cooking apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The cooking apparatus comprises: a main body including a plurality of sheet coils; a display; a memory; and a processor, wherein each of the plurality of sheet coils includes a plurality of sensor coils arranged in a distributed manner, the memory stores coordinate information for classifying, by location, all the sensor coils included in the plurality of sheet coils, and the processor may identify, from among all the sensor coils, a plurality of sensor coils of which sensing values are changed by a container placed on the main body, identify the number, size, shape, and position of the container on the basis of coordinate information corresponding to the identified sensor coils, and control the display to display a screen corresponding to the result of the identification.