The Future of Food: Experts Predict How Our Plates Will Change,
Michael Pollan, author of Cooked, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and In Defense of Food "We don't just eat to fuel our bodies-we eat for pleasure, communion, identity." Michael Pollan The way we eat influences not just our physical health, but our emotional well-being too. However, being of the health-conscious variety, let's imagine the future kitchen that caters to whole, healthy eating. Not everyone likes cooking, and not everyone cares about eating fresh whole foods. I'm no scientific expert here, but, I do love to cook and I love using the best ingredients. The Future Kitchen Promotes Healthier Lifestyles. Smart worktops help cooks improvise based on cooking level, time preferences, and modifications. In the next 10-30 years, expect to see touchscreen stovetops and smart worktops hit the market. The goal is to have a mindful cooking experience through an interactive worktop. The future of the connected kitchens are smart worktops. Compatibility between devices means you can lower the temperature in the kitchen area when the oven is on, or turn the oven off when your thermostat detects that you are out of the house. Smart kitchen appliances are connected to smart thermostats that detect when you are home or away. Smart ovens let you select a recipe, will remotely preheat your oven, and sync with your other smart appliances accordingly. It will recommend recipes based on what you have and allow you to place grocery orders. They tout features that save people time and money when cooking, meal planning, and grocery shopping.Ī new crop of smart refrigerators can scan your grocery receipt to keep inventory on what you have in stock and notify you when something is low or near expiration. Smart home connectivity is not only the future it is now. (Click to play slideshow.)Īrchitectural Digest - 100 Years of Kitchens The Future of Cooking is Connected. Global Kitchen - The home kitchen in the Globalization Era, Cosentino 2017 Global Kitchen Reportīefore we look forward, here's a quick look back on kitchens in the last 100 years. This recovered relevance will require kitchen design to be taken much more into account - both aesthetically and functionally - in home construction and refurbishment projects." "Today, it has been able to recover its role as central hub for meeting and inter-generational relationships in the home, due to aspects such as smaller home surface areas, women in the workforce, the need for work/life balance, new eating models and new technology and materials to equip the kitchen. Cooking indoors was a smoky, noisy, and smelly endeavor, leading them to be pushed away from the central space of the home to a more concealed area.Īdvancements including ventilation, insulation, refrigeration and heating dramatically changed the architecture of kitchens, bringing them back to more central areas of the home.Īt the turn of the century, it's no surprise that kitchens continue to be the focus of architectural evolution and are becoming even more central to the home than they already are. It's hard to grasp that only a couple hundred years ago heating sources in the kitchen were limited to open fires and water was retrieved from springs and wells. Which of these future kitchen features would you implement into the kitchen of your future? The Future Kitchen is a More Central Hub for Home. With the rapid pace of change at the turn of the century, kitchens of the future aren't as far off as they sound. We are intentional about keeping tabs on the way lifestyles are influenced by changes including food culture, technology, and sustainability.
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In turn this changes the way we interact with our interior kitchen environment.Īs interior designers, we are constantly thinking about how to improve the functionality of a home, especially in a central space such as the kitchen.
The changes in how we use our kitchens are driven by the way we live and move.
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