If you’re anything like me you will appreciate the benefit of a deliciously home cooked meal. The smell covering your home on a Sunday of a succulent meat, cooking away in some sort of source or gravy to go alongside. The prospect of indulging in an array of vegetables over the dinner table, fighting with your partner/family to whom gets the last Yorkshire Pudding or Roast Potato.
There isn’t anything better than a quality Sunday lunch made by all fresh ingredients and no corners cut... everything made from scratch. It seems these days that in the average modern man’s Kitchen you will be greeted by shiny black marble work surfaces which look as if they have never been used. Never an Onion chopped on them. No sign of any Kitchen utensils what so ever. The surfaces in the kitchen, instead of being taken up by food of any sort are just filled with metal modern factory like machinery which shall chop, peel, cut, grate and grind so you don’t have too. Taking all the fun away from the aspect of cooking. The typical scenario is that you have friends round for a Dinner Party & you prepare the vegetables whilst socialising and taking a few sips from the nearest wine glass. I’m up for anything which makes life easier such as robotic Vacuum cleaners or Motorised Tooth Brushes but I simply cannot stop thinking that all these mechanical inventions designed to make cooking easier are just taking the soul and the fun away from cooking and making people lazy when it comes to all things Kitchen!
Blenders, Smoothie Makers, Soup Makers, Motorised Choppers, Motorised Can Openers, Bread Makers and even Vegetable Cleaners are all prime examples of 2011 Kitchen modern home “must haves” Technology is very useful in all our everyday lives but in some situations I can’t help but thinking they are more a hindrance and I say that as an 18 year old boy who is addicted to Gadgetry of every kind and sort. Bear in mind all these electronic choppers, cleaners and blenders all have spare parts which need to be cleaned, dried and then need inserting back into their rightful tight & uneasy accessible places... making the whole “easy concept” seem something which was just printed on the box.
As much as I value and adore my gadget Toaster I think quite frankly if I am ordered to wash any Vegetables, I shall do it the old fashioned way under a tap of cold running water!
Comments