People have been trying to make their kitchen experience more efficient for years. New gadgets and gizmos have hit the market to simplify the process of preparing and making food for you and your family, and cleaning up afterward too.
Food Prep the Easy Way
Kitchen prep advancement began with simple objects, like durable knives, and has now evolved to make preparing ingredients as easy as can be. A staple item when you think about food prep gadgets is the slap chop. This device lets you cut, chop, and mince ingredients quickly and easily while protecting you from accidentally cutting your hand. The slap chop started the craze and from there have come devices like thespiralizer, which turns vegetables into noodles, and the EZ cracker, which cracks eggs without getting pieces of shell in your meal.
Naturally, because convenience and versatility are the goals for these devices, they are all able to be easily cleaned in yourdishwasher.
Cooking Is Becoming More Efficient
Making the preparation of ingredients easier is just the first step to a simpler kitchen. Innovations have been made in cooking as well. From gas and electric stoves and ovens to microwave (aff) ovens, cooking is becoming more convenient by the day. Having enough space in the kitchen is crucial while cooking so naturally the first innovations made reduced the size of the appliances. Toaster ovens combined the cooking power of an oven with the compact size of a toaster. What toaster ovens lack in size they make up for in convenience. A toaster oven (aff) doesn’t take as long to heat up as a full-size oven which makes cooking that much faster. One of the most innovative and popular inventions is the microwave (aff).
Microwave shipments hit an all-time high in 2005, with just less than 14 million units shipped. Since 2005, a steady number of9-10 million microwaveshave been shipped annually in the United States.
Making Cleanup a Breeze
Cleaning up after you cook is just as important, and possibly just as time-consuming as cooking itself. Cleaning your dishes and utensils stops mold and other bacteria from growing on the things you use to prepare your food. Luckily, advancements in washing and cleaning dishes have increased recently. Making a better dishwasher (aff) has become like making a better mousetrap, everyone is doing it. Starting with a machine made in 1850 to splash water on dishes, we now have machines with multiple cycles, spinning water jets, and improved drying cycles. Some dishwashers are now equipped with self-heating zeolite crystals that don’t use electricity, saving you money in the long run. Modern advancements in technology have also affected the dishwasher (aff).
There are now dishwashers that can connect to your cell phone via your home Wi-Fi network, this innovation allows your dishwasher to access your houses electric grid and only run when energy consumption is low, again saving you money.
The strides in kitchen appliances used to focus on the convenience, size, and affordability of the product. The newest innovations keep the same concepts as the old and also add a creative spin to capture the attention and the creative mind of the user. The advancements in appliances have given birth to several new food dishes for people and their families to enjoy.