The Luxury Kitchen of Tomorrow Can Be Yours Today

(ARA) - At a time when the real estate market is stagnant, the experts will tell you it makes more sense to stay put and upgrade than to move. And if you’re like most people, the place you’ll want to start is in the kitchen, which typically offers the highest return on investment and is often the most popular room in the house.

You may be scared off by the fact that the average kitchen remodel costs $54,241 according to Remodeling Magazine. But you don’t have to invest in a complete kitchen remodel to improve your situation dramatically. The kitchen of tomorrow can be yours today if you make just a few changes.

A good place to start is by replacing your conventional cook top and oven with an automatic cooker that can do everything from making omelets and cooking pasta to grilling steaks and baking cookies at the touch of a button, thanks to its intelligent cooking feature.

The RATIONAL SelfCooking Center is already used prominently in restaurants and other commercial operations, but smaller versions of it are now showing up in more and more residential kitchen remodels. For your next dinner party, wouldn’t it be great to be able to grill chicken and bake a cake at the same time? Or how about preparing hors d'oeuvres, grilling steak and cooking fries simultaneously; or cooking salmon and steaming vegetables at the same time without any flavor transfer and perfect results every time?

The SelfCooking Center’s LevelControl feature allows you to cook various foods at the same time. This feature is coveted by homeowners who love to cook but don’t have a lot of time to do it. And, if your family is like many American families, you know how hard it is to get everybody to eat the same thing or get to the dinner table at the same time. Just prep and plate your meal -- or meals -- ahead of time and finish them off when you’re ready to eat.

To make things even simpler, there is no shortage of accessories like the no-stick moulds that make it quick and easy to prepare muffins, vegetable mousses, poached eggs and more. After the cooking is finished, the SelfCooking Center even cleans itself with the CleanJet system and cleaning tablets.

For more information about RATIONAL’s SelfCooking Center, log on to www.rationalusa.com.

Tired of having to rinse dishes at the end of a meal before putting them in the dishwasher? Make that practice a thing of the past by upgrading to a newer model that is capable of sensing how dirty your dishes are. The sprayers will work extra hard in areas where they’re needed, and back off where they’re not. There are even machines available today that are able to determine exactly how much water is needed to wash the current load, so you don’t have to feel guilty about washing just a meal’s worth of dishes ever again.

Another futuristic appliance that industry insiders say is just around the corner is a refrigerator that keeps track of what’s inside. It’s so smart, it can also suggest menus that use some of those foods, and once you've selected the menu, will supply a grocery list for other items you need to pick up.

Feel like your kitchen is cluttered? Move the faucet off the countertop by upgrading to a wall-mounted faucet unit. Out of drawer space? You may want to opt for under-the-oven hood storage where you can hide up to 20 pounds worth of kitchen paraphernalia.

These are just some of the upgrades that will turn a run-of-the-mill kitchen into something extraordinary.

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