d64 KITCHENS
GENDER IMBALANCE
The study found that in 63.4% of all cases, the woman is still the person who usually cooks at home. By country, the UAE records the highest percentage (80%), with the lowest percentage of men who cook (10.8%). It is also the country with the most external staff that cooks in the home (4.6%). There is also a significant difference between the role of men and women in the kitchen in Italy (79.2%), Spain (67.1%) and Singapore (62.9%), which is another of the countries with the highest percentage of external staff (3.2%). Anglo- Saxon countries have a more balanced distribution between men and women when it comes to cooking at home, and the higher percentage of other family members who do the cooking is also significant.
COUNTER ARGUMENT
The countertop is a key element in the design and daily use of the kitchen. The survey reveals that it is mainly used for cutting food – put in first place by 39.4% of the respondents. Other uses related to food handling include spicing food or coating it with flour (18.1%), kneading (15.9%) or defrosting (10.3%). Only 16.3% of the answers refer to it being used as a countertop for eating. Regarding the most common materials used, the majority of countertops are laminate (29.7%) and natural stone (26.5%), followed by wood (17%), ceramic/porcelain (10.7%) and quartz (10.5%).
CONNECTING WITH TECH
Despite the kitchen of the future being portrayed as a hyperconnected, multifunctional space in which smart appliances not only make cooking easier but also everything relating to food organisation and shopping within the home too, the reality is that there is still a long way to go until it is common practice in homes around the world. 45.3% of respondents admit to not interacting with any devices in their house using their mobile phone.
Contacts Cosentino /
cosentino.com/en-gb
MAR 2015
SEP 2019
designer kitchen & bathroom
designerkbmag.co.uk
Among the users that do interact with them on a daily basis, television holds the top place (16.1%), followed by alarms and security cameras (14.8%) and heating (8.4%). Electric appliances are used even less with only 7.9% of the respondents claiming to do so in one way or another.
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