COOKING

COOKING

Cooking methods will be altered to a more technological inclined approach rather than a traditional one. There will be automatic cookers and kitchen robots that would ease the inhabitants’ job, although cooking itself will be more of a hobby for the residents, instead of a necessity. Pre-made meals will be the go-to dishes for the settlers, which provide the necessary nutrients.

If the residents choose cooking as a hobby, recipe books will be available online and will consist of four parts.

Every recipe will have 4 parts:  Ingredients  Preparation mode  Serving

Caloric intake

 1.Ingredients. At a push of the button on the inhabitant’s phone the ingredients for the chosen recipe will be delivered at the inhabitant’s door.  2. the preparation mode will be available online with cooking steps for beginners.  3 serving sizes will be decided in a programme where the residents fill out a questionnaire which provides the necessary serving size.  caloric intake is decided based on the serving sizes and the programme will display the amount of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids every serving size contains.

PRE-MADE MEALS

Packages containing every ingredient necessary for the chosen meal that are partially prepared (example: cakemix kits, taco kits etc) will be available, as well as a cooking robot that can cook almost every type of dish in a premade form. An already available option is the Thermomix which is a compact kitchen robot, that offers recipes and cooking programmes suited for it, has a built-in scale and can multitask. It is perfect for a beginner.

MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY

Molecular gastronomy offers simpler methods of cooking in some circumstances. Therefore, the inhabitants could choose to incorporate molecular gastronomy in their cooking such as:  Centrifuge technique  Food dehydrator  Syringes (for injecting fillings)  Addition of carbon dioxide (for adding bubbles and making foams)  Liquid nitrogen for instant freezing and shattering  Maltodextrin for turning a high-fat liquid into a powder