Kua roa te whakamahinga o te tunu kai induction, engari i roto i ngā tau kua taha ake nei ka tīmata te hangarau ki te whiwhi i te mana kua roa e mau ana i muri i ngā oumu hau.
"Ki taku whakaaro kua tae mai te whakaurunga," te kī a Paul Hope, ētita o Consumer Reports mō ngā taputapu kāinga.
I te tirohanga tuatahi, he tino rite te āhua o te oumu hiko whakapūmau ki te tauira hiko tuku iho. Engari i raro i te taupoki he tino rerekē. Ahakoa e whakawhirinaki ana ngā oumu hiko tuku iho ki te tukanga puhoi o te whakawhiti wera mai i ngā koiri ki ngā taputapu tunu kai, ka whakamahia e ngā oumu hiko whakapūmau ngā koiri parahi i raro i te paninga uku hei hanga i tētahi papa aukume e tuku ana i ngā pāorooro ki ngā taputapu tunu kai. Mā tēnei ka tere ake te neke o ngā irahiko i roto i te kohua, i te paraharaha rānei, ka puta he wera.
Ahakoa kei te whakaaro koe ki te huri ki tētahi oumu hiko, ki te mōhio rānei ki tō oumu hou, anei ngā mea me mōhio koe.
He rite tonu ngā āhuatanga o ngā oumu hiko tuku iho ki ngā oumu whakapūkara e paingia ana e ngā mātua, e ngā kaipupuri mōkai, me te hunga e aro nui ana ki te haumaru: kāore he mura tuwhera, he poro rānei e huri pōrearea ana. Ka mahi noa te pereti wera mēnā he taputapu tunu kai hototahi kei runga (he nui ake ngā kōrero mō tēnei i raro nei).
Pērā i ngā tauira hiko tuku iho, kāore ngā oumu hiko whakapūmau e tuku i ngā poke o roto e pā ana ki ngā hau me ngā raruraru hauora pērā i te mate huango o ngā tamariki. I te mea he maha ake ngā wāhi e whakaaro ana ki te ture hei whakakore i te hau maori hei whakamahi i te hiko me te aro ki te pūngao pumau me te pūngao hou, tera pea ka puta te hiko whakapūmau i roto i ngā kīhini kāinga.
Ko tētahi o ngā painga e whakahuatia whānuitia ana o te whakamahana hiko ko te noho makariri tonu o te oumu i te mea ka pā tika te papa aukume ki ngā taputapu tunu kai. He mea huna ake i tēnā, e ai ki a Hope. Ka taea te whakawhiti i te wera mai i te oumu ki te mata uku, ko te tikanga ka noho mahana, ka wera tonu ahakoa kāore i te wera pērā i te tahu hiko, i te tahu hau rānei. Nō reira, kaua e pa tō ringa ki te rama whakamahana hou, ā, kia aro ki ngā rama tohu e tohu ana kua tino mātao te mata.
I taku tīmatanga ki te mahi i roto i tā mātou taiwhanga kai, i kitea e au ahakoa ngā kaitao mohio ka ako tonu i te whakawhiti ki te whakapūkara. Ko tētahi o ngā painga nui o te whakapūkara ko te tere o te wera, e ai ki a Hope. I tētahi atu taha, ka tere ake pea i tāu e whakaaro ai, me te kore e kitea ngā tohu e hangai ana – pērā i ngā mirumiru e āta hanga ana ina kohuatia. (Āe, he maha ā mātou kai kua tunua i Voraciously HQ!) Anō, me iti ake pea te kaha o te whakamahi i ngā kaora i tā te tunu e kī ana. Mena kua taunga koe ki te takaro ki ētahi atu oumu hei pupuri i te taumata wera tonu, tera pea ka miharo koe ka taea e te whakapūkara te pupuri i te koropupū tonu. Kia mahara, pērā i ngā oumu hau, he tino tairongo ngā oumu whakapūkara ki ngā huringa o ngā tautuhinga wera. Ko ngā tauira hiko tuku iho he roa ake te wā e wera ai, e whakamatao ai rānei.
He maha ngā wā ka whakamahia he āhuatanga whakaweto aunoa mō ngā oumu whakapūngao hei whakaweto i a rātou ina hipa ake te pāmahana i tētahi taumata. Kua tūtaki mātou ki tēnei āhuatanga i roto i ngā taputapu tunu kai rino maka, he mea e pupuri pai ana i te wera. I kitea anō hoki e mātou ko te pānga ki tētahi mea wera, mahana rānei (wai, he kohua kua tangohia mai i te oumu) me ngā mana whakahaere matihiko i runga i te mata o te oumu ka taea te huri, te huri rānei i ngā tautuhinga, ahakoa kāore e mura ngā mura mena kāore he mana whakahaere tika.
Ina pātai ā mātou kaipānui mō te whakawerawera, he maha tonu ā rātou āwangawanga mō te hoko taputapu tunu kai hou. "Inaa, kua riro mai pea i a koe ētahi kohua me ngā paraharaha hototahi whakawerawera mai i tō kuia," te kī a Hope. Ko te mea nui ko te rino maka pakari me te utu iti. Ka taea hoki te whakamahi i te rino maka enamelled, e whakamahia whānuitia ana i roto i ngā oumu Tatimana. E ai ki a Hope he pai hoki te nuinga o ngā kohua kowiri tira me ngā kohua hiato mō ngā papa tunu kai whakawerawera. Heoi, kāore e hototahi te konumohe, te parahi parakore, te karāhe me te uku. Kia tino pānuihia ngā tohutohu katoa mō te oumu kei a koe, engari he huarahi ngāwari ki te tirotiro mēnā kua rite mō te whakawerawera. Ko tāu noa he aukume pouaka whakamātao, e ai ki a Hope. Ki te piri ki te raro o te paraharaha, kua oti.
I mua i tō pātai, āe, ka taea te whakamahi i te rino maka ki runga i te oumu hiko. Kaua ngā paraharaha taumaha e pakaru, e rakuraku rānei (kaua ngā rakuraku o te mata e pā ki te mahi) ki te kore e tukua, e tōia rānei.
E ai ki a Hope, ka whakatakotohia e ngā kaihanga ngā utu mō ngā oumu hiko kua hoahoatia pai, ā, koinei tonu te mea e hiahia ana ngā kaihokohoko ki te whakaatu ki a koe. Ahakoa ka taea e ngā oumu hiko teitei te utu rua, neke atu rānei i ngā kōwhiringa hau, hiko tuku iho rānei, ka kitea e koe ngā oumu hiko mō te iti iho i te $1,000 i te taumata tīmatanga, kia rite ai ki te toenga o te awhe.
Hei tāpiritanga, ka tohaina e te Ture Whakaiti Pikinga Moni ki ngā kāwanatanga kia taea ai e ngā kaihoko te tono whakahekenga taake mō ngā taputapu whare, me te utu tāpiri mō te whakawhiti mai i te hau māori ki te hiko. (Ka rerekē ngā moni i runga i te wāhi me te taumata whiwhinga moni.)
E ai ki a Hope, ahakoa he pai ake te penapena pūngao o te hiko whakapūngao i te hau, te hiko tawhito rānei, nā te mea ko te whakawhiti hiko tika te tikanga kāore he wera e whakawhitia ki te hau, kia mau tonu ō tumanakohanga pire pūngao. Tērā pea ka kite koe i ngā penapena iti, engari ehara i te mea nui, ina koa ko ngā taputapu kīhini e rua ōrau noa iho o te whakamahinga pūngao o te kāinga, e ai ki tāna.
He māmā ake te horoi i tētahi oumu hiko nā te mea kāore he mata, he mura rānei e taea te tango hei horoi i raro, i te taha rānei, ā, he iti ake te tūponotanga kia mura te kai nā te makariri o te mata o te oumu, e ai ki a Lisa Mike, te ētita matua o te maheni, a America's Test Kitchen Review. He tino ataahua te whakarāpopototanga a Manas. Ki te hiahia koe ki te whakatakoto i tētahi mea ki runga i ngā uku, ka taea e koe te tunu me ngā papa pepa, ngā papa silicone rānei i raro i ngā rihi. Kia mahara ki te tirotiro i ngā tohutohu motuhake a te kaihanga, engari he haumaru te whakamahi i te hopi rihi, te houra tunutunu, me te winika, me ngā horoi oumu i hangaia mō ngā mata uku.