Ease of cooking improve life
Essay : 01
Recent technological advancements have changed the way people live radically. They have also made food easier to prepare – fast foods and preserved foods are everywhere. The days when cooking of food was a major errand of the day have long become the past. Nowadays it’s only a matter of minutes to cook food. However this improvement does not come without a price.
The most important loss we suffer due to these fast foods is quality. These fast foods are lower in nutritional value and contain less minerals and vitamins. Further they have high calories that result in weight gain, and that in turn leads to heart diseases and other problems. Further, they have added flavors, colors and preservatives that are not always very helpful to our health.
These preserved food have also taken away the natural taste and benefits of fresh foods from our lives. We now depend upon artificial flavorings to make a fish taste like a fish. However we cannot get the natural taste of fresh foods from preserved foods.
We have lost the fun of cooking because of these fast foods. Cooking used to be an art and people enjoyed cooking and the satisfactions they got by cooking a tasty meal. Further, cooking is the time when family members gathered and enjoyed their time together. However with less time devoted to cooking, the chances for such meals are now rare.
All these illustrations point out that although fast foods and preserved foods are unavoidable in today’s busy world, we must not totally neglect the advantages of fresh foods. We must sometimes take time with our families to prepare a delicious meal and enjoy it together with the ones we love the most.
Essay : 02
Cooking
Cooking can be great fun. We all love to eat but how many of us can cook good and delicious food? Once has to be quite talented to become a good cook. Apart from knowing the method by which to cook, one must also have a great deal of practice to be able to produce a good meal in a short while.
Cooking involves a lot of planning. First of all, all the ingredients of the dish to be cooked have to be bought. This means buying fresh vegetables and also all the spices and additives that go into the preparation of the dish. Great care has to be taken to see that the spices are also freshly ground. Left for a long time, these too can become a house for insects and worms.
Once these are collected, the vegetables have to be washed carefully. If one is cooking a cereal, that too has to be cleaned with great care. Then the exact amount of raw material required for the preparation of the dish has to be assembled near the cooking area.
Care has to be taken to see that the dishes used for cooking and cleaning are clean. The stove has to be in good working order. Now the actual cooking operation begins.
Once the cooking utensil has been a adequately heated, the oil has to be added to it. Soon the rest of the spices and vegetables, cereal, rice or whatever has to be cooked can go into the pan. After a while the kitchen begins to fill with the aroma of good Indian cooking.
Stirring and repeated mixing up the food on fire is necessary. Before the dish begins to burn, it should be taken off the pan and served in style to anyone who relishes a good dish at any mealtime.
