Appliance
Placement
For Modern Times
by Nancy Thomas
Over the past century homemakers'
lives have gone through many
changes. Efficient and time-saving
appliances, and packaged foods, freed
homemakers from tasks which had
consumed most of their time. Many
homemakers found themselves mass
producing food, clothing, and other
goods in factories rather than working
at home.
Today, more than 60 percent of
women work outside the home. Daily
cooking has been replaced by "heating
up" left-overs, packaged foods, or deli
take-outs. Sales of take-out foods is
expected to skyrocket to $7 billion by
1990. For those who have adopted
this new concept in cooking, the
microwave has become essential.
Rarely found in homes only fifteen
years ago, the microwave is now
sometimes being specified in duplicate
for