The number of household appliances that are available to today’s busy housewife or anyone else responsible for the day to day chores is truly amazing. We no longer have to spend countless hours doing those boring odd jobs. They have enables us to get rid of a lot of the less enjoyable tasks or at least get them done much more easily and quickly by using a variety of timesaving appliances.
Refrigerators and freezers have now become essential appliances to help us store food for long periods. Microwave ovens mean that we can also cook our food in very short times and can have meals ready ‘on demand’. This fits in with our need for everything to be done faster to fit into our hectic lifestyles. It is important to make sure that the cookware that you use in the microwave is microwave safe.
Cookware has become a science all of its own too. You can buy a bewildering number of styles and all of them have their own ‘unique’ features. Personally, I am just happy if they can go in the oven and are easy to clean. I don’t have many dinner parties at my house, but I still have a range of oven-to-table cookware that I can put on the table for everyone to help themselves, rather than me being the server all night.
Cookers themselves have evolved with the technological advances. Our choice of fuels is much wider and the functionality the engineers have designed into our cooking appliances is often mind-boggling for the less technically adept amongst us!
Still more gadgets and gizmos have been designed to make our whole cooking experience as automated and effortless as possible. Electric kettles, can openers, toasters, coffee makers, tea makers, blenders, mixers, electric griddles, electric steamers, waffle makers and electric fondues and popcorn makers are just a few of the myriad of appliances that now fill my kitchen. Sometimes I wonder if the time taken to read all of the instructions actually outweighs the time saving capabilities of some of these appliances!
After you have eaten your effortless and speedily produced meal there are yet more appliances to remove the torturous process of removing the evidence! These include electric
waste disposal units and dishwashers. Unfortunately no one has yet automated the unloading of a dishwasher…now there’s an idea for a new appliance!