A PEF cooking appliance includes a container for food to be cooked. The container includes two PEF electrodes which are spaced apart from one another and between which food to be cooked can be poured. A power factor correction filter is connected to a supply voltage and configured to generate a pulse voltage greater than 600 V, and an energy storage apparatus is connected to the power factor correction filter. Connected to energy storage apparatus are wo pulse forming apparatuses such that a first one of the two pulse forming apparatuses is connected to a first one of the two PEF electrodes and a second one of the pulse forming apparatuses is connected to a second one of the two PEF electrodes.