A method for controlling a gas cooking appliance may generally include preheating an oven cavity of the appliance to a pre-selected temperature and, after preheating the oven cavity, cycling the cooking appliance through a plurality of cooking cycles so as to activate lower and upper burners of the appliance in a manner that provides heating both below and above a food item contained within the oven cavity, wherein the cooking cycles include a plurality of bake cycles within each of which the lower burner is activated for a period of time and a plurality of broil cycles within each of which the upper burner is activated for a period of time. Moreover, a cumulative ratio of the broil cycles to the bake cycles across the various cooking cycles is less than 1.
