Modern Kitchens
Introduction
The kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and preparing food in a home or commercial establishment. A modern middle-class residential kitchen is usually equipped with a stove "Kitchen (appliance)"), a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and kitchen countertops and cabinets arranged according to a modular design. The RAE defines it as a place specially equipped and prepared for the preparation of meals or food.[1] The countertop is the work surface in the kitchen and is normally made of noble materials such as marble, wood or slate. Currently, highly resistant synthetic materials are also in fashion that facilitate maintenance and cleaning in the kitchen. In addition, there is often a refrigerator, a microwave oven, an extractor hood and other household appliances, such as a blender "Blender (blending)") and a mixer "Mixer (mixing)") that make work in the kitchen easier. The size of the kitchens varies and depends on the size of the home. In small houses the kitchen-dining room is usually found to save space and in large houses it is customary to place the washing machine inside.
Commercial kitchens are found in restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, hospitals, educational and workplace facilities, army barracks, and similar establishments. These kitchens are generally larger and equipped with larger and heavier equipment than a residential kitchen. For example, a large restaurant may have a huge refrigerator and a large commercial dishwasher. In some cases, commercial kitchen equipment, such as commercial sinks, is used in domestic settings as it offers ease of use for food preparation and high durability.[2][3] In developed countries, commercial kitchens are generally subject to public health laws. They are periodically inspected by public health officials and forced to close if they do not meet the hygiene requirements required by law.
Origin of cuisine
Since fire became available, gathering around the common hearth was born, to keep warm in cold weather and to consume cooked food. With the complexity of food preparation and improvements in home heating systems, in the mansions of wealthier people, there is a need to have a different space for the work of cooking. But the kitchen does not only occupy a private sphere, in certain tribal societies, this space is available to everyone, due to the notion of distribution that prevails in them.
With the division of human groups into smaller units (family cell"), the function of the kitchen remains but is individualized (the kitchen is part of the house). However, there are cases where, although the accommodation is individual, the function of food preparation is communal. We find, for example, communal kitchens in Ancient Rome.