Somebody could make a fortune marketing some kind of panel that you could lay over the burners to make the surface flat. It would not have have be be Heat proof because most people find it too much trouble to turn those little knobs on the back of the stove anyway.
Why do people buy them when they do not cook anything anyway? My sister, for example, has every Red Rose Cook Book published since 1935 but eats nothing but salads and fruit.
Maybe it 's the pictures. Everything looks so tempting you just can not resist trying out the recipe - until you realize you' ve got to go on a three - day shopping trip to find some of the things you need, like Kalamata olives, maraschino cherries, Pecorino Romano cheese, baby arugula, and Cabernet Sauvignon. None of which are regular inhabitants of my cupboards.
I have very graduate from some french cooking school to put it all together properly. I feel very good about myself just making French toast for breakfast. And why not? Most people can not even do that, which is quite obvious when you realize that Americans bought more than $ 100 million worth of frozen French Toast in 2005, and sales have been growing by more than 10% every year since.
Suddenly, frozen waffles outsell French Toast by four-and-a-half to one. That & # 39; s nearly a half billion dollars worth! Then there are other frozen breakfasts like Bacon and Egg Scrambles, Chocolate Chip pancakes, Cinnamon Bites, Breakfast Bowls, Eggs Florentine, Country Scrambles, Toaster Strudels, and other pre-made breakfast delights that bring total frozen breakfast sales over the billion dollar mark.
It is not that people are incapable of cooking and baking complicated dishes, we are just plain lazy! We always take the path of least resistance. Why go to all the trouble of cracking egg shells, pulling bacon strips apart, and toasting bread and buttering it, can we just slip a couple of pop tarts into the toaster, or a frozen omelet into the microwave?
