[TOPIC] People will have less time to prepare or cook for their food than they do nowadays. |
Many people have been debating the pros and the cons of the idea that people will spend less time to prepare for their meal than now. From my personal point of view, I strongly agree with the opinion that preparation time will be steadily diminished. This is because frozen foods will be more available in the future and there will be more restaurants provide delicious food in cheaper prices. To begin with, frozen foods will be more accessible in the future. Nowadays, people regard frozen-preserved foods as not delicious and unhealthy. However, with the technological development, there will be more tasteful and sound food of frozen might be vastly popularized. Thus, the total amount of time of preparation of food would be reduced considerably. To illustrate, take American Instant Stake, one of the famous instant food company, as an example. At the first time the product was released, even though it was really easy to cook, people consider it as awfully disgusting since the savor of frozen stake was almost unbearable. However, as low-temperature preserving technology has been remarkably enhanced, company could preserve the chewing taste of beef almost as delicious as the food of restaurant. Needless to say, more people now enjoy the instant frozen stake than those of the past. Admittedly, in the near future, more people are fascinated on the convenience of it since it save lot of time of cooking. Thus, it is quite obvious that people put less time on cooking in the future. Furthermore, there might be more restaurants around our neighbor. Some people might say that people are reluctant to go restaurant since the price of food is more expensive than that of home. However, in the future, the agricultural products could be mass-produced which lead cheaper price of food in restaurant, and eventually, we do not need to prepare our dinner by ourselves. Therefore, the time for preparation of meal would be dwindled in the future. According to a survey recently released by the Korean National Research Center, more than two thirds of the surveyed residents of metropolitan areas responded that they prefer to go restaurant near their home and company since it offers them food at reasonable prices. They also mentioned that they feel they no more need to cook themselves at home since more and more restaurants give food with cheaper price than home made food. Thus, in the near future, people do not need to cook at home which cause decreasing time for preparing meals. In this context, there is no wonder people will spend less time on their kitchen in the future than those of the current and past. In brief, we have witnessed the phenomenon that the time of preparation and cooking of meal has ever-decreasing for the sake of convenience and alternatives restaurants. Not only frozen instant foods will be more used in the future, but also there will be more restaurants provide delicious foods in cheaper prices. In the whole, I wholeheartedly believe that the very first thing we should do now is admitting the importance of development of cooking method which can free us from cooking every meal. |