Exercise: Pros and Cons of Convenience in Cooking

QUESTION:

Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

ANSWER:

Modern technologiesy, like microwave ovens and fast food restaurant facilities, makes it possible for people to prepare their meals significantly easier.more easily OR with significantly more ease. While it is evident that this brings households convenience, and workers and students efficiency, whether it improves people’s lifestyles is yet to be studied.

It is obvious that people’s ways of living might be benefited because they do not need to spend as much time in cooking as before. This helps them to better concentrate more on their working. As a result, their studies or careers can be improved. Consequently, they will or can buy more things to live better lifestyles. Moreover, the time they have saved save from cooking can be spent in on a number of recreational activities. These include trips, parties, and enjoying things with their families.

Whether they eat better is controversial. On the one hand, in the old days, people had no time to improve the quality of their food because it required massive amount of time to cook fairly cooking properly required massive amounts of time. The advent of new (forms of)technologiesy appears to help all their users to be competent chefs. On the other hand, some dishes that are tasty and nutritious still need a lot of time despite the help of new technologies y. More importantly, many people argue that cooking itself is a pleasure to for them. The convenience also means the loss of their enjoyment.

Many people do not like this trend for a variety of reasons. They are concerned that this phenomenon also makes some people to be more obsessed by with their working. This forces all rivalries (??) to be busier (more involved?) in their jobs. This is one of the most widely accepted reasons.

Some suggestions for improved style! 

In short, to conclude if this phenomenon has more advantages than disadvantages is not easy. Anyway, we should make good use of it to live a better lifestyle.