As our society has been changed at rapid speed, the way people cooking and preparing food also has been changed a lot. Some people might think that the time which people take when preparing food will dramatically decrease in the near future while others believe that it would take shorter time than ever. I agree with the previous statement that people will spend much less time making dishes because of the advanced technology and growing needs for instant foods.
To begin with, increasing needs of people for instant foods will shorten the time which need to prepare the foods. In our information-oriented society, people become more and more busy and concept of time span become short. Since people in these days are required to be on a tight schedule, they began to want instant food to save some time on eating. To illustrate, in these days It is easy to see people who make do with burger at the streets instead of the restaurant. Also more and more company is launching new instant foods like sandwiches or frozen foods to meet the needs for decreasing cooking time. Actually many people consume these instant foods in mart or convenient store easily and quickly.
Not only growing needs for instant foods will make cooking time more shorter, but also high technology in this day and age has contributed to shortening cooking time. The prime example is microwave which heat up foods in quite short time. With a one click, people can make their dishes in a matter of minutes. Also the invention of frozen food is contributing factor radically to short cooking time. The frozen foods barely need actull cooking. Instead, only thing people have to do is heating it up in the microwave. Moreover, frozen foods are convenient to preserve in the refregerater, as a result, people can pile up the foods in the refregerator and pick them up whenever they need. According to the national survey which is conducted by the Ministry of fish and agreculture and forestry, the amount of cunsumtion of frozen foods doubled within the past five years.
In summary, people in near future will spend less time cooking and preparing food due to the consistant needs for instant foods and improved technology. Since these influences are so strong, I believe they will continue to remain for a long time |