Convenience cooking, the practice of streamlining recipes for simplicity and speed of preparation, is fast becoming an essential in the modern world.
Though it may seem a recent phenomenon, guides to convenience cooking go as far back as 1930, captured in publications such as French Cooking in Ten Minutes by Edouard de Pomiane, which tried to minimize the time put into much French cooking of the day.
However, while many emphasized streamlining recipes for simplicity and speed of preparation back then, presently it is important to consider all the steps taken towards getting that finished meal.
Cooking starts from grocery shopping, and ends at the point of cleaning up the kitchen after use. With the fast-paced tempo of the modern world, cooking has increasingly become more of a chore that most people prefer not to be burdened with. Everybody enjoys a home cooked meal – as long as someone else prepares it.
However, with the evolving health risks that researchers are revealing in various fields, a vast majority of the population is becoming more health conscious. Eating out is no longer considered a viable option and most families have to adjust their schedules and create time for cooking.
Various manufacturers continuously strive to provide solutions to this gap in the market – for example through production of gadgets that make work easier e.g. nutriblender, vegetable slicer, prechopped packaged meats and vegetables.
All these inventions have helped to save some time on the kitchen front, but the most overlooked fact is that cleaning dishes and cooking surfaces can sometimes be just as time consuming as preparing the actual meal itself. In fact, the time required to complete the entire process is lengthened when specialized cookware or glassware is used- one that requires special attention when cleaning.
Research shows that the kitchen accounts for more weekly hours of housework than any other part of the house. It is therefore important that the ideal kitchen of the future focus on both reducing cook time and considerably shortening the time spent to clean up.
So far, technology has been able to make lives easier, but how can technology be used once again to shift the kitchen dynamics?
LG East Africa Marketing General Manager, Moses Marji asserts: “When choosing your kitchen appliances, you must consider the solutions that they offer. With LG products, we ensure that the synergistic power of smart technology offers a real solution by allowing devices to communicate and synchronize routines both before and after a meal. Right from the shopping stage, we make sure that our products become your assistants- you can call your refrigerator to find out what needs to be restocked/replaced.”
For consumers who need a stress-free, relaxing and user-friendly kitchen, the cooking process also needs to be streamlined. More thought needs to go into the cuisine being prepared, and less on the cleanup that should follow. The LG EasyClean oven offers a perfect solution.
It automatically preheats based on recipe selection, and has advanced settings that cook each dish to the required standard, making sure to lock in the flavors and nutrition. The best part of this oven however, is its intuitive feature – the smart oven actually lets the user know when cleaning is required with a notification to the smartphone.
Technology has come a long way in ensuring that appliance construction is set up in a way that boosts cooking performance while accelerating the cleanup process. The level of interconnectedness in the kitchen and the home serves to enhance the experience of having smart technology make work easier. Families can now be healthy, with minimal effort.
