09.05.31CN： Do you agree or disagree with the statement？ People will spend less time cooking and preparing food in twenty years.

    In recent years， the modern world has seen evidence that the time people spent on cooking is likely to undergone a decline. Some experts even surmise that people will spend less time on cooking or preparing food in twenty years. From my point of view， this estimate is reasonable.

    First， the advancing technology is making cooking less time-consuming. It has been demonstrated that inventions such as micro-ovens， electrical rice cooker has emancipated human beings from a lot of tedious work involving getting a fire and constantly supervising it. What is even more amazing is that the technology knows no bounds.； an array of innovations keep springing up in pursuit of a even more convenient cooking experience. As a case in point， a few weeks ago I was appealed to a new machine called ‘automatic egg boiler’ introduced in the local newspaper， which could fulfill the task of making beautiful sun eggs automatically. The invention was expected to be put into commercial soon and will thus provide people with delicious eggs in the mornings， saving people much chore. It is the advancing technology that lessens the time needed for preparing food.

    Moreover， commercialization has even made possible freedom from cooking. Truly， food is indispensable to every human being， but with the modern commodity system， cooking could be virtually dispensable. In fact， it has been a common scene that people simply drop in chain stores like seven-eleven and buy various kinds of ready-to-eat food to content their stomach. The mass production and distribution are spawning food industry. Consequently，in many occasions， people in the future perhaps don‘t have to spend time in cooking any more.

    Admittedly， cooking used to and maybe is still no negligible part of human life and some may hold cooking is， to some extent， an enjoyable experience. However， technology and modern commercialization are becoming progressively sophisticated. Their combined efforts may well make people spend less time cooking and preparing food in the future.