{"id":5180,"date":"2018-11-08T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchenartdesign.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2023-10-24T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:24:31","slug":"how-technology-is-changing-the-way-we-use-our-kitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchenartdesign.com\/how-technology-is-changing-the-way-we-use-our-kitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"How Technology Is Changing the Way We Use Our Kitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cPeople want to make better use of their time. Technology helps people make some great food in the kitchen. The smart kitchen is coming\u2026 Every large kitchen appliance manufacturer in the world has a plan for the smart kitchen.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Ben Harris<\/b>, Founder and CEO of <\/span>Drop <\/span><\/i>and Creative Technologist<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ways we\u2019ve learned about, cultivated, sourc<\/span>ed, pr<\/span>epared, <\/span>gathered, and shared food has consistently evolved since time immemorial. We\u2019re a strange species, and as the single most dominant subgroup of mammals the planet has ever known, human beings are no strangers to adapting to new food trends; whether that be cooking our food over eating it raw, to washing, preparing, and storing food - knowledge, technology, and innovation has always played a massive role in changing the way we view food and use our kitchens.<\/span><\/p>\n

These days, it\u2019s less about the basics of food preparation and ingredient awareness, and more about awareness of the food industry, the immense health benefits and risks associated with various forms of food growth and cultivation, and a newfound obsession with knowing <\/span>where<\/span><\/i> our grub comes from, how it made its way to our kitchens, and <\/span>who<\/span><\/i> grew it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Technology is changing the ways we behave, use, and interact with our kitchens, and we dove in deep to find out how.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Behaviour<\/b><\/h2>\n

There\u2019s no question that modern t<\/span>echnology plays a massive role <\/span><\/a>in our lives now. The vast majority of westerners spend upwards of 4 hours per day staring at a screen, and that doesn\u2019t stop when we enter the kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\n

We look at ethnic and regional recipes to expand our culinary horizons, consult reviews and opinions about the ease of various recipes online, and we routinely use our smartphones to access this knowledge, exchange ideas, and continue the advancement of new human culinary behaviours. Never before has so much knowledge been available at our fingertips, and it\u2019s affecting how we spend time in the kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Technology hasn\u2019t only played a significant role in how we behave in the kitchen, but it\u2019s changed our taste buds, and how we buy food as well. Computers and smartphones can point us in the right direction of a local food distributor, the best coffee shop, or a whole foods store with that tempeh you love so much. Apps allow us to have order our food directly to our homes without having to go to the grocery store, and there are literally hundreds of apps that will help you chart out and analyze your weekly eating routine to lead a healthier lifestyle. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Social Media<\/b><\/h2>\n

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Social media represents a myriad of tools and technologies that support and share peer-to-peer content creation, and user-generated content. Social media, therefore, is the single most <\/span>powerful advancer of food culture <\/span><\/a>from a social and dietary perspective. Ever snap a picture of your meal and share it online? According to a recent survey, <\/span>one third of people have <\/span><\/a>- and that advances and promotes food culture, and inevitably how we behave and interact with our own cooking practices, and our kitchens. <\/span><\/p>\n

The advancement of more and more single parent households, and longer working hours' means that never before has our species witnessed so many people eating alone. We often have an idyllic picture in our minds\u2019 eye of a family eating together, but an increasing number of people now cook and dine alone. That\u2019s impacted what we prepare for ourselves, and how well we prepare it - but there're alternatives. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Muk-bang social media trend - translating to eating room\u201d is a webcam-based social media phenomenon wherein a person eats a huge amount of food in front of a webcam, <\/span>live streaming the experience<\/span><\/a>. This is largely a spectacle of eating ability, but more and more people are using it to create a virtual companion with whom to eat. <\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s an absolutely massive, vast, and seemingly endless amount of food blogs, food forums, and groups on social media these days that use the connective power of the internet and its various social media platforms to connect and unify whole populations of chefs, recipe hunters, and amateur at-home cooks. They share reviews on restaurants, recipes, dining experiences, and cooking techniques to expand and showcase the world of food.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Appliances<\/b><\/h2>\n

Appliances allow us to cook. Our kitchens house our appliances; our fridges, our stoves, microwaves, dishwashers, ovens, etc. The technology we have access to today isn\u2019t just some of the most efficient we\u2019ve ever had access to, it\u2019s also some of the fastest, the most delicate, and the most powerful \u2014 and there\u2019s a huge push to further integrate our appliances and how we cook, with our social media and entertainment platforms\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready for this?<\/span><\/p>\n