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News18
28-07-2025
- Business
- News18
Why More Indian Homes Are Switching To Triply Stainless Steel Cookware
Last Updated: From better heat retention to safer materials, triply cookware is setting new benchmarks in Indian kitchenware. In Indian homes, the kitchen has always been more than just a space to prepare meals; it's a place of tradition, experimentation, nourishment, and often, quiet joy. Over the past decade, a silent but transformative shift has been brewing in this sacred space. As cooking evolved from routine to ritual, cookware too began to demand a rethink. Enter triply stainless steel cookware – a category that has redefined not just how we cook, but also how we engage with the act of cooking itself. Durable, efficient, and design-forward, this innovation has played a key role in making the Indian kitchen more modern, mindful, and versatile than ever before. According to Dhruv Agarwal, CEO & Director of Stahl Kitchens, this change was both necessary and long overdue. 'We believed Indian households deserved cookware that matched international standards in safety, performance, and design, but built with local needs in mind," he says. With Triply's introduction, a new chapter began for the Indian kitchen, one focused on performance-led innovation with an aesthetic soul. What Is Triply and Why It Works At its core, triply cookware is composed of three bonded layers: an inner surgical-grade stainless steel layer for safe, non-reactive cooking; a middle aluminium layer for even heat distribution; and an outer magnetic stainless steel layer compatible with induction and gas cooktops. This thoughtful construction balances safety, efficiency, and durability, ensuring food is cooked faster, healthier, and with up to 20% less oil. Where cookware was once viewed as merely functional, today's consumers are more conscious and discerning. 'Cookware has become an extension of lifestyle," Agarwal notes. With minimalistic finishes, ergonomic handles, and aesthetic appeal, triply cookware answers this shift. It has grown beyond the realm of tools into instruments of self-expression, whether you're cooking for sustenance or pleasure. From Stove to Table Perhaps the most striking aspect of triply cookware is its ability to seamlessly double as serveware. Its sleek form and utility-driven design make it ideal for modern homes where presentation matters just as much as preparation. As triply cookware completes a decade in India, it's clear that it's not just an innovation, it's a movement. One that reimagines what Indian kitchens can be: smarter, healthier, and undeniably more beautiful. view comments First Published: July 28, 2025, 15:19 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
The Star
01-05-2025
- The Star
How AI tools can threaten cultural diversity
It turns out that, while AI boosts writing speed, it also profoundly transforms personal styles. This phenomenon was particularly noticeable among the Indian participants, whose writing style became much more Americanised. — AFP Relaxnews Artificial intelligence is now widely used. Presented as an everyday ally, promising to make our lives easier and reimagine the way we write, it nonetheless carries a major risk. A US study claims that by imposing Western writing standards, AI could smooth out styles and erase cultural particularities. To measure this threat, a team from Cornell University, led by Professor Aditya Vashistha, conducted a ground-breaking experiment with 118 American and Indian participants. Each of them was asked to write texts on cultural themes, with or without the help of an AI writing assistant. The aim was to observe the influence of AI on their respective styles. It turns out that, while AI boosts writing speed, it also profoundly transforms personal styles. This phenomenon was particularly noticeable among the Indian participants, whose writing style became much more Americanised. To adapt to the AI's suggestions, they often had to make numerous changes. "When Indian users use writing suggestions from an AI model, they start mimicking American writing styles to the point that they start describing their own festivals, their own food, their own cultural artifacts from a Western lens," explains Dhruv Agarwal, a doctoral student at Cornell and first author of the study, quoted in a news release. A detailed analysis of the texts shows that the Indian participants accepted 25% of the AI's suggestions, compared to 19% for their American counterparts. At the same time, Indians were significantly more likely to modify the AI's suggestions to fit their topic and writing style to maintain cultural relevance. For example, AI typically suggested "Christmas' to evoke a favourite holiday, overlooking Diwali, one of the country's biggest festivals. This bias is no mere anecdote. The authors denounce a veritable form of "AI colonialism', an insidious cultural domination in which Western standards are imposed to the detriment of other identities. And the consequences are far-reaching. By standardising the way they write, people could end up seeing their own culture through a foreign lens, to the point of altering their individual perception of it. "This is one of the first studies, if not the first, to show that the use of AI in writing could lead to cultural stereotyping and language homogenisation," says Aditya Vashistha. "People start writing similarly to others, and that's not what we want. One of the beautiful things about the world is the diversity that we have." Professor Aditya Vashistha and colleagues are well aware of this and are calling for a change of direction. Cornell's Global AI Initiative is already looking to join forces with industry to build policies and tools that are more attentive to cultural specificities. The stakes are immense. It's a question of safeguarding the richness and diversity of human expression, protecting the plurality of voices and imaginations, and preventing digital homogenisation. Indeed, defending cultural diversity in the face of AI is not just an ethical choice, it's a collective emergency. – AFP Relaxnews
