Electrolux Organic Cooker

Combine innovative student minds just after graduating with the electrical giant Electrolux and you get the cutting edge home appliances of the future. Formally wrapped up in the guise of the 2006 Design Lab contest contestants from all over the world vie for top honors.

The Organic Cooker was one such entry and managed to claim one of the top prizes for its flexible and oil-free cooking in the home. The future of home cooking is a table top appliance that combines infrared technology and vacuum cooking to help create healthy meals within a fraction of their traditional cooking time.

The peanut shaped appliance allows consumers to cook food whichever room they desire or on any surface without the fear of setting fire to everything. It uses high-efficiency radiant energy that sends high frequency electromagnetic waves from the invisible end of the light spectrum, allowing food to cook without the need to heat the air around it.

The vacuum system ensures that all flavors are held within the food and do not escape and infiltrate the whole house. The Organic Cooker offers oil-free frying, grilling and boiling options, all in the one appliance and the internal cooking pad is comprised of four separate sections in order to adapt to your desired style of cooking, and the digital dial operation around the circumference of the hood allows you easily set and adjust the cooking temperature.

This brings the ability to cook healthy food into every home – definitely one to watch.

Organic Coke

Historically, the organic farms have been relatively small family-run farms — which is why the retro-food was once only available in small stores or farmers’ markets. However, since the early 1990s organic food has had growth rates of around 20% a year, far ahead of the rest of the food industry. With the market share of organic food outpacing much of the food industry, many big corporations have moved into the market of retro-food production.

So for over a hundred years, while we thought we were always drinking the real thing, we were in fact consuming a spin-of version of the original health drink; a Fake! Only with this historical information one realizes the new Diet Coke Plus health drink might just be the most original coke produced in our lifetime. As I see it, Coca Cola Company is moving in an interesting direction with Diet Coke Plus, but they still have to push further in order to truly return to their origins. In their upcoming Coke product they should drop all the chemically engineered additives and produce a truly authentic old fashioned soft drink. After Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Classic Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Coke Plus and Coke Splenda, I want my Organic Coke! Because you can’t beat the original thing.

Organic Myths

Source: Organic.org

Myth: Organic food is too expensive

Fact: In general, organic food costs more than conventional food because of the laborious and time-intensive systems used by the typically smaller organic farms. You may find that the benefits of organic agriculture off-set this additional cost. At the same time, there are ways to purchase organic while sticking to your budgets Consider the following when questioning the price of organic:

• Organic farmers don’t receive federal subsidies like conventional farmers do. Therefore, the price of organic food reflects the true cost of growing.
• The price of conventional food does not reflect the cost of environmental cleanups that we pay for through our tax dollars.
• Organic farming is more labor and management intensive.

Myth: Eating organic food is the same as eating natural food.

Fact: Natural foods do not contain additives or preservatives, but they may contain ingredients that have been grown with pesticides or are genetically modified. In other words, the ingredients in the ingredient panel will look familiar, but they have not been produced organically. Natural foods are not regulated and do not meet the same criteria that organic foods do.

Myth: Organic food tastes like cardboard.

Fact: This may have been true of processed foods at one time—take crackers or pretzels for example—but this stereotype is as outdated as the hippie connotations that follow it. Today many organic snack foods taste the same as their conventional counterparts, while most people agree that fresh, locally grown organic produce does not compare to the alternative. Even organic produce that is not in season and has been shipped thousands of miles to reach our grocer’s shelves cannot compare to the produce found in our own back yard or at farmers markets. Taste is certainly an individual matter, so give organic a try and see what you think!

Try baking a couple batches of cookies or prepare a couple of bowls of fruit or vegetable salad; use organic ingredients in one and conventional ingredients in the other.