To provide a set suitable for a table of household and Japanese-style restaurant, and used for easily cooking, in a short time on a table bean curd for a small number of people, especially a serving for one person, and to provide a cooking method.

This cooking method comprises setting at an equal interval a dish-up container 2 into which a bean curd raw material 6 is put and which has a raised center bottom, on a saucer container 1, on which an exothermic agent 5 made by mixing powder aluminum with powder calcium oxide is laid and which is formed high of edge, and putting a cover 3 over the product to make a cooking container set part 10. Furthermore, the method includes pouring water in a measurement container 4 from a water filling opening 12 of the saucer container 1 into the set part 10, letting the exothermic agent 5 in the saucer container 1 generate heat, and heating the bean curd raw material 6 in the dish-up container 2 to 80-90C for about 20 min so as to make the product into bean curd, without igniting the hydrogen gas generated.