Wednesday, July 11, 2012

KITCHEN/APPLIANCE SPECIAL..HOW THE FUTURE KITCHEN WILL BE?


KITCHEN/APPLIANCE SPECIAL..HOW THE FUTURE KITCHEN WILL BE?

Imagine kitchen appliances talking to each other on a wireless network, and hobs working just with a simple touch… Wouldn’t cooking be a real fun thing then?

    In olden days, the kitchen, while the pivotal centre of the home, was primarily sidelined as a female domain. Today, in our ever shrinking living spaces, kitchens have become smaller still. Combined with increasingly on-the-move lifestyles and easy-to-order fast food, where is this area headed in the next couple of decades? While the design structure of the rest of the house moves from straight line furniture to the Victorian era and back and forth, let’s see what’s cooking in the kitchen...
    Many of the world's top kitchen appliance and fitting manufacturers have now set up shops in India. It is perhaps a cognizance of our rich culinary history or maybe just an ode to the army of housewives who daily churn out painstakingly elaborate meals for their extended families. So the Indian nuclear family and the joint, the working woman and the stay-at-home mom, the eager teenager and the metro male—all are perhaps gently nudging their way to the kitchen door for a peep into the future.
    Naveen Sharma, marketing manager of a company that designs kitchesn, says, "In terms of design, we interpret the kitchen as the hub of the home in the next decades to come. It will be integrated in the home environment rather than claiming to be the centre of attention. It is the essentials that count, with the technology—appliances, sinks and taps—disappearing behind fascias when they're not needed."
    Explaining the new trends, he says, "New hardware ideas for flush-fitting fronts will generate new architectural options. On demand, they will be electrically retracted and, in doing so, free up the work surface. An extremely shallow sink will discreetly blend into the forwardpointing kitchen landscape and reduce the consumption of water as well. Retracting faucets will underpin the trend of reducing kitchen design to what's needed without compromising on functionality."
Neat and clean are the keywords
Talk of future kitchens, and unlike past, there will be nothing kept in sight. Only what is needed will be taken out and then put back again. A minimization of the kitchen work space is what we are looking. When done correctly, it humanizes the workplace, eliminates overly hard work, and teaches people how to perform experiments on their work using the scientific method and how to learn to eliminate waste in business processes.
The focus is on convenience
Kitchen is where convenience emerges to play a central part. Drawers and pot-and-pan drawers that can be opened from both sides can provide access to contents no matter which side of the work centre the user is standing. Electrical appliances are also set to provide greater convenience. Meanwhile, separately controllable drawers in the dishwasher can be opened from both sides, thereby making cooking a pleasure.
    Vikas, a developer of customized kitchen solutions, says, "Ergonomics, the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movements, and its cognitive abilities, is being rapidly brought into focus in designing the kitchen of the future."
Has to be a controlled set up
Naveen, further points out that, "From the aspect of ergonomics, the future lies in height adjustable wall units. Control panels on the base unit provide the capability of raising and lowering cabinet elements independently of each other, ergonomically moving cabinet contents to a level that best suits the user."
Go for the right kind of click
So all appliances, pots and pans in the cooking space will be easily accesible. Not only will it minimise repetitive strain injury, it will make cooking a faster task because everything will be easy to access. No more climbing on stools to reach for that container of spices. Simply, press a button and behold, the shelf moves down easily within your reach. With ergonomics out to dish out new delights in this appetizingly space, can the click world be far behind. More and more manufacturers are now looking at ways that they integrate the trendiest and techy design into equipments of daily use.
Time to do some tech talk...
In the future, multimedia networking will do much to boost convenience. Different electrical appliances will perhaps communicate with each other. The touch screen in the hob or large screen in the kitchen front will be used to display oven temperature and remaining cooking time. Internet, television as well as other building services can be operated and controlled from a central point. With all these and a lot more, looks like the future of kitchenlies in design, convenience, ergonomics and multimedia networking.These are the 'masalas' which will go into creating a gourmet delight in the years to come.

HIGH FIVE: THE KITCHENS OF 2020 WOULD SURE BE THE MOST DESIRABLE PART OF A HOME 
1 Talk of future kitchens, and unlike past, there will be no clutter to be seen anywhere. Only what is needed will be taken out and then put back again. A minimization of the kitchen work space is the whole idea
2 Drawers and pot-and-pan drawers that can be opened from both sides can provide access to contents no matter which side of the work centre the user is standing. Convenience will be the keyword here  
3 Control panels on the base unit will provide the capability of raising and lowering cabinet elements independently of each other, ergonomically moving cabinet contents to a level that best suits the user  
4 No more climbing on stools to reach for that container of spices. Simply, press a button and behold, the shelf will move down easily within your reach. The bottom line is easy access to all things in the kitchen  
5 Multimedia networking will do much to boost convenience. Different electrical appliances will perhaps communicate with each other. The touch screen in the hob or large screen in the kitchen front will make owners proud

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