Much awaited solution to kitchen gas woes
Sri Lanka’s LPG giants have in one breath provided a subtle answer to the unspoken woes of the ordinary domestic consumer.
To us housewives our gas cylinders are the indispensable elements of our lives standing tall in all types of contingencies whether day to day family needs or the occasional festivity and partying. But I cannot escape the sinking feeling that the stalwartcylinder of yesteryear is passing into redundancy in the same way modernity has replaced many things in our life.
Perhaps it is the part of the natural course of events.
To many who restrained themselves the glamour of the five kg cylinder that courted the consumer most coquettishly, the entry of a further 5kg cylinder into the market has given much food for thought. With startling assurance one might say that the trendy new cylinder has taken the reign for supremacy in the LPG industry to novel dimensions. Here we see the rivals concur and are marketing it with equal vigour and aggression.
The shared concept is clear. Changing lifestyles veers the woman away from the kitchen. With eating out becoming a trend and viable alternative to the dearth of domestic help and the traditional boiling of drinking water declining, domestic gas consumption decreases and it is not surprising that those horrendous giants must give to the handy youngster. Besides don’t they fit in more snugly into modern compact spaces?One cannot escape the fact that in the face of spiralling living costs we look for ways and means of economising. Undeniably here is a fresh change most welcome to the consumer.
Mala Kumari Pathirana
(Received by email)