Comments on: Why do we still have kitchens?

By: Munim

Munim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:22:53 +0000

Seems like a waste of space and money

By: Tamara

Tamara — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:58:21 +0000

These types of business that you speak of are rampant in the United States. You order from a menu for the week, they prepare your food and deliver it to you prepackaged. You can choose from any number of food and either organic, vegetarian or not. All you have to do is warm it up and viola! You have your meal. But to do without kitchens… maybe. But I doubt it. People love their kitchens. At least in the US of A they do. They spends tens of thousands upgrading them and many don’t even cook in them.

By: Munim

Munim — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:37:48 +0000

Thanks for your comments, Laraib!

By: Laraib Kazi

Laraib Kazi — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:04:19 +0000

Interesting POV. Sooner or later, everything is gonna get mechanised, even if cooking doesnt get outsourced completely, i’m pretty sure we’ll have some chef-bot doing it for us. Good read though, gets the grey matter running

By: Munim

Munim — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:43:32 +0000

Thank you for reading and commenting, Ankit!
You have a very valid point regarding human emotional element. But I think many such changes have happened in the evolution of civilisation where things have become more “mechanized” or “automated” and lost the personal and emotional touch.
Consider houses for instance. Before, everyone used to be design and build their own houses. Nowadays, sometimes people just buy a house which is already constructed, or even worse, rent a house or an apartment. I know this is a completely different issue, but I am just showing another example of the loss of “emotional touch”. “Progress” happens anyway. This is why I believe all this will happen many years or even centuries in the future, not any time soon.

As a business idea, it is brilliant. There is a startup in Mumbai which delivers high quality, nutritional, calorie counted food packages. I read about the start up in “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish”.

Also if you remember, a friend of mine wants us to help him to set up a similar food delivery business. That is something to look forward to.

By: Ankit Saxena

Ankit Saxena — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:23:36 +0000

Now food is something which is really close to someone’s heart. Outsourcing that would actually take the human-emotional element out of it.
Just imagine that a small kid has to eat out of the “mess” so he never gets to know how she cooks like.
On the other hand , I suppose , that it will be a lot more difficult for a mother to give the nutritional and growth parameters of her child into some agency;s hand.

Though I still believe that as an idea for business it is good , since there is still not much regulation into quality and cleanliness when it comes to these messes which you are talking about.

But , I am of the opinion that houses still should have kitchen in them , atleast when it comes to a family staying together and also it acts as a stress-buster for many !

By: Munim

Munim — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:13:49 +0000

There are people who enjoy baking too. Doesn’t mean everyone should bake their own bread..
There are people who enjoy stitching and designing. Doesn’t mean everyone should stitch their own clothes and design their houses.
If you enjoy doing it, good! Can you do it everyday for every meal? Most people can’t.
This is a idea for the future.. not something which should happen immediately.
Thanks for your feedback

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:09:33 +0000

I think it’s wrong to do so! It gives you great pleasure cooking your own food. I love to cook! You derive satisfaction of it and you are happy! The important thing here is you are happy! But having food outside once in a while is not a problem! But permanently eliminating the need of kitchen is really bad!