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have not enjoyed take away meals either collected from or delivered by the local Indian or Chinese outlet, pizzas and of course fish & chips. But there is a whole raft of companies springing up to deliver restaurant-quality cuisine.
Deliveroo for example offers a delivery service from local restaurants. Founded in 2013, just three years later the company was worth almost £130m. And Uber Eats says it has hundreds of restaurants to choose from. When you open its app, you can scroll through the feed for inspiration or search for a particular restaurant or cuisine. When you find something you like, tap to add it to your basket and start laying the table. Your dedicated Uber driver will soon be knocking on your door to give you tonight’s supper.
If a customer is getting some of their meals delivered ready to eat, do they still need a state-of-the-art oven and large capacity cooling and freezing appliance? If not, how will this impact on future kitchen design?
“We have noticed a shift towards unexpected kitchen furniture,” says
Matt Phillips, Head of UK Operations for Rotpunkt UK, “where modular solutions like room dividers, wall- hung designs and asymmetrical space planning are allowing the homeowner to interpret the space ergonomically, instead of spatially.
“This is also working to naturally kerb the domestic qualities of a kitchen space with modular solutions introducing dedicated herb storage, an open ice trough for cooling drinks or an easy-access room divider that is raised for extra utility or transform a typical ‘box-shape’ island unit into a multipurpose workstation. We have also introduced a new stack- up frame shelving system which works on its own or as part of a fitted kitchen concept and can be wall or floor mounted, freestanding or integrated for the utmost flexibility.”
“When it comes to kitchen size, I'm not of the opinion that they are reducing,” says Carmel Diggins, Designer at Halcyon Interiors. “I just feel that the use of space has changed. Pantries and utility rooms are beginning to be more common,
thus removing certain appliances and additional storage space into different areas within the household.
“With the wealth of options when it comes to kitchen appliances, it’s hard to say that certain appliances will become redundant as they are all tailored to the individual’s needs. The choices people make will be subjective, client A may be fond of entertaining guests so a choice of an oven, combi and warming drawer would be suitable, whereas client B may decide that a combi will be sufficient enough for their needs. One thing that seems apparent is the use of microwaves has begun to diminish. Could this mean the beginning of the steam era in the UK?”
“I live in the countryside and I work in a city and while I don’t yet have access to Uber Eats, I have ordered an organic recipe box on occasions,” admits Darren Taylor, Managing Director of Searle & Taylor. “This is certainly a burgeoning trend in households, which may one day shape the way we design the kitchens of the future by only needing the minimum amount of cabinetry, together with some nifty compact appliances, but that is a big leap forward.
FAST FORWARD TO THE FUTURE OF FAST FOOD
High-class restaurant fare, delivered to your doorstep or your company and cooked to perfection in a Miele Dialog oven - that is the brainwave of a Bielefeld-based startup called MChef (a deliberate reference to Miele's M Chef technology).
This is no future pipedream but a service that is available now, albeit only in Germany at present. Customers can order individual dishes or three-course menus from MChef, which are then shipped on elegant porcelain plates together with a matching wine to addresses throughout Germany. The target audience for the new gourmet service is owners of a Dialog oven who wish to dine as if in their favourite restaurant in the
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different ingredients are cooked to perfection at the same time; high quality and super-fast cooking times; and mistakes during preparation are virtually eliminated by virtue of the fact that all users need to do is to simply place the plates with the food into the Dialog oven which is then started from the MChef app with the correct settings.
comfort of their own home. The business addresses not only private households but also the upper echelons of companies, consultancies and legal practices, as well as care homes and clinics. MChef delivers 365 days a year.
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Up to six dishes can be prepared in a Dialog oven simultaneously. The average cooking time for the 20-plus dishes on offer is 20 minutes, with all dishes specially created for the appliance. Three dialog oven properties above all benefit MChef: that
Food is delivered in a patented transport crate which guarantees freshness; used crockery is returned to the empty crate which is picked up and returned.
The target audience for the new gourmet service is owners of a Dialog oven who wish to dine as if in their favourite restaurant in the comfort of their own home
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