Are We Getting Lazier When We Cook?
admin | March 31, 2011We are getting lazier and lazier now as technology develops and offers to help pick up some of the slack, we have all sorts of gadgets to help us out with everything from sleeping to cooking. Don’t get me wrong, I love technology as much as the next person, I love how I can find out information on the internet and play games on my phone as I wait for an appointment, but when it comes to cooking then I like to do it myself.
I know we are all getting busier with work and family, so we don’t consider cooking to be time well spent, but if you don’t think of it as a chore then you can often combine family time with cooking. You will find that when you are cooking then you are actually paying a lot more attention to things than if you were vegging out in front of the TV, so if your partner joins you to help with dinner you can have a really great talk as you do it. If you were both in front of the TV then you probably wouldn’t be talking as much, but as you are both ‘stuck’ in the kitchen then it is the perfect time to talk to each other.
If you cook things for yourself then it does take a bit longer than shoving something in the microwave for a couple of minutes, but it will also be a lot healthier. You can make sure it uses fresh ingredients so you cut out all the preservatives, and you can make sure you get a good portion of vegetables too. Yet there are some pieces of technology in the kitchen that I do like, for instance bread makers and coffee makers.
Bread makers are great because with normal sliced loaves so easily purchased at the supermarket then often we wouldn’t bother making it ourselves, but with a machine to do the hard work for you then you can enjoy the taste of freshly cooked bread yourself. There is nothing quite like a freshly baked loaf cut into slices and then drizzled in butter!
A coffee maker is a great gadget for people who need lots of coffee in the morning for a big family. If it is just for you then it is a bit of an overkill, even if you get a 1 cup machine, but if you need lots of cups then the ability to have the machine come on in the morning automatically and brew you a 10 cup pot of coffee for when you get downstairs is priceless.
So stop dreading the cooking or finding inventive ways and gadgets to stop you having to do anything, instead turn it into a pleasurable experience you can share with your family that gives you great tasting and healthy food as well.
Another gadget you might like to consider is an electric turkey fryer which can cook your turkey super fast and keep it nice and juicy at the same time, you can check out the Masterbuilt electric turkey fryer at IndoorElectricTurkeyFryer.com.



















