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Changes in the way we cook.(Chicago Tribune)

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| June 02, 2003 | Haddix, Carol Mighton | COPYRIGHT 2003 McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Carol Mighton Haddix

Americans have fewer cookware items in their kitchens compared to 10 years ago, according to a new report from the market information firm The NPD Group Inc. The report results reflect the changing ways we cook.

Americans, instead, are looking for things to make cooking easier. The study found that kitchen shears, for example, now are found in 66 percent of households surveyed, compared with 49 percent 10 years ago. Scissors are needed to open the increasing numbers of frozen and ready-to-eat-food packages found in our pantries and refrigerators.

Items that have lost favor since 1993 include rolling pins, biscuit cutters and meat mallets. People also do not use double boilers, casserole dishes, skillets, bundt cake pans or Dutch ovens as often as they used to.

But indoor grills have grown to 27 percent of households in 2002 from 11 percent in 1993. ...

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