HOME KITCHEN ABANDONED: Inside the SHOCKING new trend that’s KILLING traditional cooking forever.
Award-winning food writer Tony Jackman has publicly DUMPED his gas oven. He’s not just experimenting—he’s declared a FULL REPLACEMENT in his Cape Town home. His confession is a DANGEROUS sign of what’s coming for every family kitchen.
“My cooking life has been revolutionised in one week,” Jackman boasts. The evidence is chilling: a massive Kenwood 25l air fryer oven, complete with rotisserie and revolving chip basket, now sits where his oven once was. He flaunts its “super brightly” shining light and downward-opening door like a trophy. He’s even questioning if he needs a toaster anymore, claiming the air fryer toasts bread with “astonishing speed.”
This isn’t just a recipe column. It’s a MANIFESTO. The food elite are pushing a silent, convenient revolution while appliance giants like Bosch and Kenwood PROFIT. Where are the warnings? Where is the safety debate about a future built on countertop gadgets? Jackman admits he’s uncomfortable with a gas bottle indoors, yet promotes a TOTAL reliance on electric appliances with zero scrutiny.
He taunts readers with images of crispy chicken and perfect toast, framing this as “lots of cooking fun.” But look at the recipe he provides: mushrooms and onions cooked in a drawer, bread baked in another machine. This is fragmentation. This is the end of the cohesive kitchen.
The media celebrates this as innovation. They shower him with awards while he methodically dismantles the heart of the home. His cozy breakfast of mushrooms on toast is a Trojan horse.
One man’s convenience is a society forgetting how to cook.
Edited for Kayitsi.com



