Dining Preparation Appreciation

We are all so spoiled in home dining preparationKettles - Boil/dry technology (shuts off
with our futuristic kitchen. We don't appreciate theautomatically after boiling or when water level is
cooking ease that we have these days with ourlow).
simple to use cooking appliances. Ridding the toil ofRefrigerators that make ice instead of ice making
getting wood and lighting a fire to a simple pushthe refrigerator.
of a button to toast a slice of bread or to makeWhat's in store for future appliances to prepare
a great meal for fine dining.fine dining meals....
Let's first, briefly look at the history of preparing- Wall mounted water kettles, another space
for fine dining. Fire went from scorching meat tosaver.
forging steel. Fire places in homes were handy for- Microwave oven and LCD television
cooking but was very messy and very smoky.combinations, a futuristic T.V. dinner.
Everything tasted like charcoal. So Benjamin- Toasters that toasts your bread between 2
Franklin in the mid 1700's worked with the forgedpanes of glass, literally right in plain view.
steel and invented the cast-iron wood stove. The- Toasters that prints (burns) a picture onto your
future of cooking dinner was here. A whole arrayslice of bread. 12 by 12 pixel resolution of a
of cooking gadget ideas came from this stove likeChristmas tree or your Aunt Hagatha.
different size pots and pans, bent in half metalFuture dining is going to change the look of the
coat hanger toaster (they weren't painted inkitchen again, especially with these 2 items....
those days), and a kettle that whistled.- Refrigerators which are internet enabled to give
By the end of 1880's electricity started comingyou an interactive message board, satellite radio
into homes, by 1930 most towns and cities hadand a digital picture frame. Also has a CD/DVD
power. Well didn't that bring on the electricalplayer, cell phone charger and it still makes ice.
appliance invention explosion. Future of dining had- Floating salt and pepper shakers which are
changed with electrical oven/stove combination,suspended in mid-air over a base plate using
crude sparking toasters and the ice box (whichstrong neodymium magnetic repulsion.
just had a fan to circulate the cold). Fire insuranceWere becoming more environmentally friendly in
claims sky rocketed. Eventually other appliancesthe future kitchen with dishwashers that have
such as clothes washers with the attachedbuilt-in sensors estimating how dirty the dishes are
wooden ringer (all run by the same motor) andand allowing the appropriate time for the cleaning
the black and white T.V. came onto the market.process and dispensing the right amount of soap
From the 30's to early 1990's the future offor each load.
cooking and dining with kitchen appliances hasThe preparation for fine dining at home (or cave)
become safer (less fires) and better with extrahas come from building a fire, killing, skinning,
gadgets added such as timers, lights, on/offgutting and throwing the hunk of meat onto hot
buttons and heat adjusting knobs.rocks beside the roaring fire, to just pushing a
Then the 1990's computer technology was here.button for roasting a turkey, to perhaps verbally
Didn't that spark up the imagination of electricordering a microwave looking appliance in zapping
appliance design....you instantly from mid-air any dish you can
Toasters - Defrost technology; reheat technology;imagine. We really have it easy these days in the
bagel toast technology; high speed technologyart of home dining compared to even 50 years
(40% faster).ago, which is not a long time. Yes, we are spoiled
Toaster Ovens - Microwave; Infrawaveand should have more appreciation for the humble
technology (50% faster, and asks for tin foil);kitchen appliance.
convection technology.