The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours

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Комментарии : 12 тыс.

@TechnologyConnections 3 года назад

I, for one, look forward to the litany of opinions on which of these "should _never_ be cooked in a microwave."

@tomer4566 3 года назад

Everyone knows blue jigglies can't be microwaved. Only red jigglies.

@frother 3 года назад

@@tomer4566 That's only if you make your jigglies with gelatin. Everyone knows that play-doh based jigglies are fine in the microwave.

@crashcourseinbruhsurgery 3 года назад

yo momma

@quinton1661 3 года назад

CDs. Never cook a CD in the microwave. It stinks.

@kilmentvoroshilov2827 3 года назад

luv u bb

@pinkace 3 года назад

Somewhere in Japan, a retired Sharp engineer cries a lonely, happy tear and thinks: Someone appreciated my bowing chef.

@marcoaurelio4903 3 года назад

And a ton of assembly code

@KeiranR 3 года назад

Someone needs to copy the firmware off it and upload it ...

@Kodeb8 3 года назад

@@KeiranR Someone needs to play Doom on it.

@asailijhijr 3 года назад

@@marcoaurelio4903 who knows, it could run on java.

@borisos9832 3 года назад

@@Kodeb8 a doom version where you could turn in only one direction, so a 270 right turn to turn left...

@Matoro-wp9hy 3 года назад

"you can turn off the sound altogether" okay, I'm with you, this is the best microwave designed in history

@TheLightningStalker 3 года назад

Maybe they were inspired by ofuro bath chimes or something.

@Phelixc 3 года назад

Did you know that most microwaves actually come with that option? Most just have a combination, or holding a button to mute the sound. It's usually holding the cancel/stop button for a few seconds.

@Meta-Drew 3 года назад

As a kid, I swear we had the loudest microwave in existence. If you wanted to have a midnight snack you would wake up the whole house just from typing in a cook time - and if you let it reach 0 it would let out 3 excruciatingly long beeps that there was no way to stop once they had started.

@hotaru8309 3 года назад

The one in our shared rent house beeps just as loudly if you stop or mute it, no matter how much time is left. It's shorter than the "Food Time Over" alarm, but still wakes roommates. It's probably 15years old...

@bullyhomestead7232 3 года назад

If you hold 1,2 or, 3 it should change the settings for you. Consult the manual. Mine for example is number 1 for no sound, 2 for demo, 3 no timer end sound

@TheThingKing Год назад

It's both impressive how far ahead of its time this microwave was, and also embarrassing how modern consumer microwaves are not as feature packed or as good.

@skylimitua 4 месяца назад

The consumer is to blame imo. Most, including myself, view the microwave as a simple tool where you set time and it radiates heat on your food for that long. Nice and simple. When complex features are advertised to them, they can't be arsed and just ask for one that'll last them longer. My mother for one, never even uses the timer properly. She just treats it as the on and off button. She yanks the knob randomly and then turns it off manually when she feels it's been enough. I mean, your stove is a simple device - turn on, use heat. Microwave being viewed as an alternative way to make "the cooking heat", it's by inertia also treated as a simple on and off device

@FreebooterFox Год назад

I'm a die hard fan of GE's giant black bricks, simply because they never seem to die...But now I want a Tamagotchi microwave of my own.

@datutturugang666 11 месяцев назад

i swear i’ve seen the giant black brick in a large industrial kitchen 15 years apart and still pulling hard, it’s truly humongous tho

@NoahSpurrier 5 месяцев назад

The new GE microwaves are not so good.

@ZGryphon 3 года назад

My microwave is designed to thwart the one-second-left method by making a louder noise when interrupted than when it reaches the end of the cycle normally. Nice job, Panasonic!

@YounesLayachi 3 года назад

Here it make a beep when stopped or opened, so in all cases it will always make at least 1 beep, and 3 if you let it finish (+1 for opening the door) SMH the previous microwave from 1999 wasn't so annoying to use

@H3wastooshort 3 года назад

pull the plug

@jonasdatlas4668 3 года назад

@@H3wastooshort bet the next generation will have a backup battery just so it can beep at you when it loses power

@smithsmith6402 3 года назад

My current microwave is my favourite. No no beeping at all, just a satisfying *CLICK* when it's done. No display or buttons for that matter, just a dial, like an egg timer. And it's got the magnetron on top so it takes up less space while still fitting a full dinner plate. Also made by sharp, oddly enough.

@SeanMirrsen 3 года назад

@@jonasdatlas4668 We have a thermopot that does exactly that. I don't know the reasoning behind it, but it makes a loud "bebeep" when unplugged. Possibly because it's a thermopot and you don't want to accidentally unplug it and then have a pot of cold water in the morning, but nevertheless. The technology is already there. :)

@TheBigH 3 года назад

This man really sold me a 23 year old microwave.

@SweetFLGuy1 3 года назад

I might sell mine just like it made in 1997 and it's dark gray instead of white. Make me an offer I can't refuse plus shipping.

@matthewbasala1827 3 года назад

@@SweetFLGuy1 80$ +shipping?

@iamalolz 3 года назад

@@SweetFLGuy1 a bean burrito and 5 bucks

@SweetFLGuy1 3 года назад

@@iamalolz You can keep the burrito and add 3 more zeros to the 5 bucks then it's yours. I bet I can get at least $5,000 for this super rare microwave on eBay auction especially in color black and dark grey. Stay frosty! : )

@sneed7123 3 года назад

seriously. I started looking for one online

@TreadTheDonutDuck Год назад

That dot matrix display is just amazing. I wish more modern microwaves had it.

@shooting4star2023 Год назад

Even the Motorola/Codex modem from the 1980s had dot matrix display, and with BACK LIGHT. :D

@AmaroqStarwind Год назад

VCRs need it too

@TheDavidish 6 месяцев назад

@@shooting4star2023better than the Gameboy could do

@timscott84 6 месяцев назад

It's as if we've gone backwards.

@-libertyprimev1-902 6 месяцев назад

I'm imagining that Sewing Machine that you could slot a gameboy into to use it as a stencil selector, but instead a microwave you had to shove a gameboy into so you could choose the time... 😂

@jerryweirdspeed8943 Год назад

if you were wondering about the play-doh function, there is types of play-doh which you can fix by heating it in the oven. i guess that's what that is.

@SirWolf404 7 месяцев назад

I was thinking it's actually about cooking your own play dough (note it's not related to that one well known brand). Just google play dough microwave and you get a bunch of recipes 😀

@annehoward6227 3 года назад

Congratulations on a great summary of the world's best microwave oven - the Sharp Multiple Choice! As one of the people who worked on designing, testing, marketing - and yes, naming this microwave, thank you for your appreciation of its the features. Glad it provided you with some fun and fond memories - and I'm so glad you and your grandmother loved it!

@RussellNelson 3 года назад

Why isn't it still being sold?

@fatihnri2484 3 года назад

@@RussellNelson Because companies are dummy dum dum.

@WorriedTheif 3 года назад

Who currently owns the design drawing? I would like to see if it inexpensive Tomane with a 3D printer and the parts it needs.

@bow-tiedengineer4453 3 года назад

@@WorriedTheif I will second this. is there a backup of the code somewhere? I'll bet my friend could convert an existing modern microwave if he had those lookup tables. I mean, that, the screen, and the adorable chef are the only major functional differences, and you could redo the chef in full color on a modern LED display. Although, I just got the mental image of that screen and menu on one of those brightly colored retro style appliances, and I now really want this to be a thing.

@dlayman101 3 года назад

This comment needs more likes. Thank you for taking your time to write your comment. As a viewer these sorts of interactions make the video even better!!!!

@andrewhenderson3737 3 года назад

"Well if you're wondering why I have my grandma's old microwave..." ....my nervous breath.... "when they moved to a new home with an over the stove microwave" ...breathes sigh of relief.

@ultimateking2238 3 года назад

Me too

@CarlosBunn 3 года назад

Haha, yeah, I thought it would turn sad

@Felixkeeg 3 года назад

No kidding, I went "Not Grandma"

@bland9876 3 года назад

When he first said it was his grandma's I instantly assumed because why not

@gajbooks 3 года назад

I have my grandma's old microwave. RIP. A Panasonic with an inverter as mentioned in the video actually. Makes horrendous amounts of EM interference compared to other microwaves. It manages to make Bluetooth have problems, and that's not easy. At least it doesn't beep constantly like the microwave at work.

@topicvideosguy Год назад

When I first saw this video, I brushed off sensor reheat as something I don't need. However, I've been recently making food at home more often and freezing the leftovers in portion-sized bags. Today I pulled out some chicken alfredo and was going over the settings to see if I could get it to reheat in one go. I decided to use the sensor reheat to reheat the pasta. I was a little anxious about burning it, but once I got it out it was perfect. Everything was thoroughly heated. No cold spots, no burns. If you don't think you need sensor reheat, then you have not seen its power.

@_..-.._..-.._ Год назад

I have a Panasonic “the Genius” Sensor inverter 1250 watt microwave that I love from at least 15 years ago and it’s the only one I’ve had that doesn’t cycle on/off for lower power, it actually lowers the power of the magnetron thereby not rubberizing the food. It died a couple years ago and I fixed it by resoldering a loose connection and it’s still perfect.

@cmdrnmartin 8 месяцев назад

I just walked downstairs to check my microwave and I sae in script "the genius" on my panasonic. I knew it lowered the magnetron power when heating at lower settings and I always thought this was standard until i had to deal with other people's microwaves that as you said, just cycle the on off vs modulating the power delivery.

@ian_b 3 года назад

Much appreciated the barb about how "cloud based" basically translates as "guaranteed obsolescent".

@srpenguinbr 3 года назад

I have a 5 yo blu ray player that could acess the internet. Guess what? It doesn't work anymore. It can only play blu rays locally, how boring

@IanBPPK 3 года назад

@@srpenguinbr ngl, it could be a firmware update issue. one of the major reasons that Blu-ray players generally have online functionality is so that they can retrieve new decryption keys for newer blu-rays that release since the content on the Blu-ray discs are generally encrypted, which is why not much effort is made into the streaming apps that go on them since they're more so an afterthought. With that said, it could also just be that the brand is a sack of shit and wants you to pay for a newer model.

@NoraNoita 3 года назад

@@IanBPPK not that the Nintendo Wii actually gets updates directly from the latest firmware on a game disc. So I don't see why it shouldn't be the same for these Bluray Discs

@spiderpickle3255 3 года назад

@@IanBPPK its not have several BD players which no longer work online (Sony and LG) and the firmware is the latest available for them. several of the Sony models were specficaly net models as you don't need an internet connection to watch blu-ray

@zachicusmaximus5551 3 года назад

I hate smart tv's planned obsolescence to get you to buy a whole new tv when the only thing different is the software inside, aimed at the cord cutters and their streaming subscriptions. 4k netflix? Need a new tv. Disney+ isn't available for my model? New tv. Yeah no thanks I'll connect a cheap computer to it and it'll last me 3x as long. On the bright side, obsolete smart tv's are abundant and cheap on online marketplaces.

@chipwolf5325 3 года назад

I just watched a 15 minute ad for a microwave which is no longer manufactured

@7kilmer 3 года назад

Me too

@JadoShiRS 3 года назад

Feels like I fell asleep with the TV on and woke up at 3am to an infomercial.

@resetthis9838 3 года назад

Knowledge is cumulative.

@MrNitrofish01 3 года назад

Same and now I find myself searching eBay for one.

@trupyrodice4462 3 года назад

No, you watched a video about what technology could be the way it used to be before engineered obsolescence.

@Minarreal Год назад

90s microwaves also last a lot. We have one here in our restaurant that dates back to when my parents got married in 1994 and it's been constantly used ever since, especially since we got our restaurant in the late 2000s. Not much to say, it still works flawlessly (which I guess it's a problem because it could become a fire hazard out of the blue). Then in ~2010 we got what I assumed was a mid-rad range (for the price) LG unit and it broke a couple of years ago. Started to spark a lot. The replacement (a state-of-the-art unit) also has this weird control panel that becomes unusable when it gets wet (we constantly have wet hands in this business, ya' know). Glad this video exists and calls out modern microwaves, they're garbage.

@Leenapanther Год назад

My mother gave her mother a microwave in 1994. When my grandmother died we took that microwave. We still use it today.

@philiplubduck6107 Год назад

Honestly this and all microwaves lack 1 perfect features. Customization of cook times. I have a brava oven that cooks well and it has a feature to cook predetermined items for a set time or use a thermometer. For the cool times it will remember to cook more less based on my input. So if my eggs take 12 seconds more or 20 seconds less it will cook for the proper amount of time the next time I make it. Now this microwave and especially anything modern. (Add a usb Jack) then you can add recipe and custom cook times and even organize the menu with most recently used recipes at top. If a recipe cook to long or at to high of a level then customize it and it will be perfect for the rest of its life .

@shooting4star2023 Год назад

We remodeled the kitchen in 2021. The Sharp microwave that I bought in 1994 is still there, but got a better dedidate cabinet which it calls home now. :)

@fuckyoutubengoogle2 Год назад

I had a very similar experience. I still use a Sharp manufactured in 1993. Around 2008 I bought a Sanyo that malfunctioned from day one. The Sharp recently devolved an issue with the door switch which I have put off repairing but I still use the oven but have to prop the door a little for the magnetron, fan and turntable to turn on. Can't complain about a 30 year old oven that still works.

@alnoso 9 месяцев назад

@@fuckyoutubengoogle2 good to know at least that even a 1993 microwave makes sure the door is closed properly before blasting your kitchen with magic boil from inside rays

@desertmodern7638 Год назад

Christmas of 1973 my grandmother gave each of her daughters, including my mom, a Thermatronic microwave by Thermador. Stainless steel and black glass, it even had a switchable infrared browning element that was great for making crisp quesadillas, etc. For me that was the pinnacle of microwave cooking.

@NotOneOfUs 3 года назад

"Antique" "1997" Look, just dig me a grave so I can lie down it already.

@mistaplayinabox 3 года назад

To be fair, 1997 isn't an antique age. Super mario 64 isn't considered an antique

@j.l9946 3 года назад

If someone can run doom on a calculator, he should run doom on a microwave

@supermills03 3 года назад

You're listening to WKAD the oldies! and here's Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve

@DukasFiguliras 3 года назад

@@j.l9946 You can run DOOM on a pregnancy test. I'm not joking

@kruks 3 года назад

@@DukasFiguliras - Sorry to be "that guy", but adding an OLED and CPU to a pregnancy test stick is pretty misleading.

@teejay818 2 года назад

My man is over here getting 1.3M views off of his grandma’s microwave. LEGEND.

@retabera 2 года назад

He just wanted to show it off

@naufalap 2 года назад

this guy's family has talent to buy the best things available

@RilGames. 2 года назад

omg 1.5 now lol

@brendinzz 2 года назад

Also the toaster

@michaelsaunders1400 2 года назад

*1.5M

@joonglegamer9898 Год назад

I came across this older video of yours, and you got me so intrigued by that Sharp Microwave that I simply had to find something similar in 2023. And after a TON of searching, I found one - it's called Sage All in one, beware tho, there are 2 models, one that looks sophisticated and one that actually is, the model number for the one that has the same features as the Sharp one in your video is: SMO870BSS4EEU1 - but it IS a bit on the expensive side, around 600 bucks, but it has a dot matrix display, and all those features to control the microwave, sense the food and adjust its settings accordingly, very rare - but I did find one, so they're being produced again, sorta.

@gregbailey45 Год назад

You mean copied...

@dijosto 7 месяцев назад

@@gregbailey45"Something similar"

@bistro-tat 6 месяцев назад

For US people you'll want to look for the Breville Combi Wave. It's the same exact product just under a different brand.

@TheRealVulle 4 месяца назад

Holy shit, thank you! I was looking for something like the one in the video, but couldn't find anything similar. The one you found is EXACTLY what i need, and i will buy it! Thanks again!

@joonglegamer9898 4 месяца назад

@@TheRealVulle Glad to help, it was a super interesting project, and now I've had mine for over a year, and I use ONLY that one EVERY day, haven't used my regular oven in over a year, and will probably just have it removed.

@seamussc Год назад

My parents got this microwave for their kitchen when I was 10. They had it for probably 15 years, and replaced it about a decade ago. Hearing the pleasant little "food is done" jingle again after all these years really made me smile and think of simpler times.

@stejer211 3 года назад

When the Internet came, I never thought one day I would watch videos about home appliances with fascination.

@sticksandstoneswithmike.912 3 года назад

Imagine setting your VCR to record a show about a microwave back in the old days... I probably would have slapped myself lol but here I am.

@claypotts2334 3 года назад

I use a youtube downloader to download this video in 144p. God bless technology

@ratedasmr7811 3 года назад

You must be a 1950s housewife.

@estudiordl 3 года назад

A good teacher makes any subject interesting... 😃

@Hackanhacker 3 года назад

@@claypotts2334 ahah

@ta4music459 Год назад

In the home we have in Japan we have a microwave oven with lots of buttons and settings - my wife showed me how to set it, but then I found an incredible button which simply translates to "heat whatever's inside to the exact right temperature, then stop". I use it all the time. Never seen that elsewhere.

@ninelaivz4334 Год назад

Is that the start button?!

@Protoking Год назад

I for one would love to know the actual name of such a button

@straightpipediesel Год назад

All US microwaves have that, at least the ones that cost more than $50. It's "sensor reheat". It heats the food until steam is detected. Works well as long as the food makes steam and you don't block it like with a lid.

@ta4music459 Год назад

@@straightpipediesel But that's just it - it isn't limited to that. It works nothing like anything else I've tried. It works on food which does not steam at all. It even works with a cover sometimes. It could be that it has a temp sensor as well, something like my hand-held one (those you point at with a light and it tells you the surface temperature)

@Romin.777 Год назад

hahaha that was funny.

@kay0tica Год назад

You had me at "you can turn the sound off completely" I'm sold.

@cities_signs_and_deserts Год назад

After watching this I immediately went out and bought an inverter microwave. So much better. Beautiful, even heating during defrost or lower power cooks. No more on off cycles.

@punkem733 Год назад

YES! Panasonic inverter ovens are the best.

@southerncharity7928 Год назад

Did you even watch the video? He said this microwave _wasn’t_ an inverter model

@gregbailey45 Год назад

@@southerncharity7928 but he did say that lower power cooking has advamtages...

@dogboy0912 3 года назад

Everyone had an old toaster or microwave that lasted forever, and when it finally died, they got a new one that broke 3 years later.

@theofficialsikris 3 года назад

Planned obsolescence is a scourge on modern technology.

@antreaskonstantinou8585 3 года назад

We had a microwave that lasted 10 years and one day while working it let out a very loud sound, similar to a gunshot and a bright arc from behind.

@ThePhilippers 3 года назад

This, my parents have the same toaster for like 20yeahrs, my toaster was used 60 times and now it smokes when you turn it on.

@shadowxxe 3 года назад

@@antreaskonstantinou8585 Probably a connection melting or snapping due to wear and tear

@antreaskonstantinou8585 3 года назад

@@shadowxxe my guess was that huge ass capacitor blowing up. The microwave wasnt dead but sounded really weird after the explosion. Ofcourse we didnt keep it.

@IncroyablesExperiences 3 года назад

I love how they were exploiting 100% of what their hardware could!

@Bolli1983 3 года назад

but could it run doom?

@georgf9279 3 года назад

Give the engineers enough time to play with the project and that's what you get. (Ok sometimes we don't get to an end at all...)

@axm601 3 года назад

Quelle époque !

@drescherjm 3 года назад

@@Bolli1983 What about Crysis?

@duckface81 3 года назад

@@drescherjm Minecraft?

@thatoneginger Год назад

I don’t say it every time I see your videos, but I think it every time I see your videos: you are an absolute treasure of an actor and writer. “Teal pink and purple best” slayed me

@patrickdrew4891 8 месяцев назад

I used to own one of these. I sitll look back fondly at it. It was truly a fun and unique take on the normally boring microwave. It DID do popcorn to perfection along with everything else I threw in it. The menu system and animations added a fanciful element that was just fun. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.

@rawkinghorse 3 года назад

"Have you ever felt like innovation in microwave oven technology has simply stagnated over the last 20 years" I think about this daily

@john-paulsilke893 3 года назад

My truck microwave is way cooler, powerful and better then the $600 stainless units I install in the new houses I build. It actually has a timer on it I use for frozen meals I toss in it in the morning and cooks at exactly lunchtime so I have a nice hot soup to eat with my sandwiches.

@Idontwantyourcookie 3 года назад

This but unironically

@Wolficefang 3 года назад

@@john-paulsilke893 at first I thought you meant that as joke, that it took that long to actually get the food hot enough, but that's pretty neat. I'm not sure how it keeps the food frozen before it starts cooking, though... Probably just insulation.

@RedHair651 3 года назад

@@Wolficefang why would it need to?

@john-paulsilke893 3 года назад

@@Wolficefang it has often mostly thawed but the soup remains quite cold, at least as cold as a fridge. I can’t do this in the hot summer but winter is no problem even though I’m in the Pacific North West.

@tayzonday 3 года назад

Subway restaurants use a hybrid microwave-convection oven to melt cheese. I’ve always thought that would be cool to have in a kitchen.

@Ari_vr 3 года назад

sadly they are preprogrammed times depending on sub size, amount of meat, and which sub it is

@NeverDieAloneMusic 3 года назад

A RU-vid Legend randomly talking about Subway and microwaves. What a strange time we're living in.

@chloehennessey6813 3 года назад

TurboChef offers the same oven that fits in your counter. I have one and countertop pizza oven by them as well. And it’s not preprogrammed. You can set it up for whatever you want. It has a USB port for quick programming or just use its default settings.

@Jaxck77 3 года назад

This. These kind of microwaves do absolutely exist, but the technology is largely proprietary recipes.

@xXFluffers 3 года назад

I've got one of those, cost about 100 bucks but holy shit it's good

@HowdyFolksGaming Год назад

WE HAD THIS MICROWAVE! I'd completely forgot about it until I saw the interface. Then when I heard the little chimes and melodies, it triggered memories I didn't realize that I had! Gosh, it was such a good microwave. I don't even think that it broke, I believe we replaced it for an over-the-oven style. I wonder if my parents still have it in storage somewhere 🤔

@user-sf5iq2fl1l Год назад

I absolutely love this kind of videos. early and late 90's kitchen appliances is the most incredibly boring theme for most people, but not for me! These appliances could do what ours do nowadays... those things just got old and broke, but some still bulletproof and working!

@zamuy12479 3 года назад

"Bricked in 3 years when the startup behind it inevitably folds" Pulling no punches today. :)

@pgramsey1 3 года назад

Not every startup folds. Some get bought out by Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple and then product support gets "sunset."

@Gogglesofkrome 3 года назад

@@pgramsey1 sometimes even with the product being made by apple/google/amazon/etc, the product support just gets shut down anyway ten years down the line because of cost savings, forcing you to have to throw out half of your goods for the sake of maintaining the 'benefits' of the rather dumb 'smart technology.' Networking has only ever proven to be a risk, as seen through the fact that there have been hundreds of reports of hackers peeping on children and talking through the built in mic.

@rwdplz1 3 года назад

**looks over at Juicero**

@nthgth 3 года назад

I know, it's really just sad

@MalcolmCooks 2 года назад

god. imagine the technology we could have in our homes right now if tech companies focused on user friendliness and convenience instead of data harvesting...

@csn6234 2 года назад

"You are correct, my son." - God

@EdibleFuture 2 года назад

But that's not profitable you walking data printer

@JNJNRobin1337 2 года назад

but anti-data protocols are important billionaires are nearing bankruptcy while still being billionaires they gotta get money quick

@ericconnor8419 2 года назад

They focus on making money, that is all. You are seeing what happens when a system focuses on that above everything else. Apparently the magical market was going to fix everything, and the only reason it has not yet is we have not given corporations enough power. Imagine if CEOs were legally liable to customers not shareholders.

@pharaohsmagician8329 2 года назад

@@ericconnor8419 the consequences of Capitalism. A terrible system.

@teldrah Год назад

YES! THANK YOU! I've been trying to tell friends and family this for years but nobody seemed to believe me. I'd argue that microwaves even got worse over the years with less power and less functions. My parents own a wonderful 1000 watt Panasonic microwave from the late 90s which came with a complete cookbook(!), grill function, convection oven and tons and tons of features like a dedicated button for frozen pizza (which is cooked to perfection) - what's not to love? Meanwhile, todays microwaves often only have 600 watts, come with like 3 buttons, no grill function, no convection oven and certainly no cookbook, but cost the same. Manufacturers simply realized that they could get away with much less, because 90% of people just used the microwave function and didn't bother to learn what their microwave oven could do.

@sunshine3914 Год назад

Never found a microwave less than 800 watts. The majority, I find, are 1000 - 1200. My electrical can’t handle anything over 900.

@ayoCC Год назад

The manufacturers were right . The typical consumer just cares about how it looks and putting in food without changing any settings and run it for different amount of minutes. The manufacturers realized no one is buying their machine over another because of a pizza function.

@rivkahbrown9919 Год назад

This was my mum’s first microwave. Must have purchased in 1998ish & I cried when it died about 6yrs ago. Loved the features. We actually never used any of the recipes but still have the recipe booklet. Thanks for the video. Was telling my stepson about the coolness of first microwave & came across the video even at 13yo he thinks this is coolest microwave ever & why can’t all microwaves have same sensor for popcorn.

@zilvoxidgod 3 года назад

wait bro it has raised buttons, I can actually feel what i'm pressing in the dark!

@boozejunky 3 года назад

Like a Blackberry!

@snaplash 3 года назад

I use clear vinyl sticky bumps on the frequently used "buttons" on my oven's flat panel. These are sold as soft feet to protect delicate surfaces from things placed on them.

@user-le8ul4nr5t 3 года назад

The reason most microwaves don't have raised buttons is because two membranes and a sheet of plastic is way cheaper and more durable. Buttons are surprisingly expensive because they have to handle a lot of stress through their lives.

@adde9506 3 года назад

@@user-le8ul4nr5t Printing a little braille on that plastic would go a long way, even for people who don't read braille.

@ValkyrieTiara 3 года назад

@@user-le8ul4nr5t Not to mention the fact that I would never want a microwave with physical buttons like that because it's a food appliance and GOOD GOD can you imagine the gunk and crud that would build up in those crevices? Membrane pads are superior for microwaves because you can easily clean them with a damp rag.

@richardtickler8555 3 года назад

Normal kids: looking forward to see granny TC: looking forward to see grannys microwave

@hermanrobak1285 3 года назад

I was almost sure his granny had moved to The Other Side. But she had just moved to another house.

@Midnights06 3 года назад

😂 I’m dying

@theericfreeze4498 3 года назад

My grandmother has a whirlpool microwave that says "enjoy your meal" uin a dot matrix display under the vacuum fluresnt clock/ timer.

@SquishyZoran 3 года назад

@@theericfreeze4498 can you try to find info on it? I wanna see

@theericfreeze4498 3 года назад

@@SquishyZoran sure

@dhpbear2 6 месяцев назад

10:50 - On my cross-country trip 20 years ago, I came across a microwave where the keys were arranged in an inverted triangle (think bowling pins)!

@Prophes0r Год назад

I don't know what dimension this was written/filmed in, but I'd love to visit it to see this kind of magic. One of my early research projects was to compare the "auto" cooking functions of various microwave, toaster, and traditional ovens. We had over 100 different units. They ranged from the MOST basic (barely) electromechanic controlled timers, to ones sporting sensor suites. Seriously, your single moisture sensor is pretty tame. Some of these had multi-contact point load sensors that weighed the food, various thermal sensors, and acoustic sensors (Which do the BEST job at popping corn, and were also used to detect the 'bubbling' of boiling liquid in some cases). The conclusion, after 13 months of samples? (uugh) "Auto" cooking doesn't work. Almost completely across the board. Popcorn? Boiling water? Sure! Pretty good success rate too! Almost 1/3 could do it repeatably (Though not always well. Just "the same" degree of good/bad.) (Of note, the ones with a heat sensor that took a pre-temp reading of a mug of coffee, then reheated it to the desired temp were WONDERFUL. And no longer exist...) Most of the "automatic" settings were laughably bad. Even with a moisture sensor. ALL of that wasted engineering effort did worse than simply running the device at 40-60% power for 2-5 minutes (based on the content). Maybe commercial ovens do better? We were on a shoestring "Oh wow we actually GOT that grant?" budget. NOTE: That was also when I learned how important it is to have a GOOD timetable in your grant proposal, because busting your grant window is...bad.

@asamyers4572 3 года назад

"Honey, where's the recipe for Ratatouille" "It's in the microwave, dear"

@Shadow81989 3 года назад

* opens microwave, nothing there...

@markusisaksson6023 3 года назад

@@Shadow81989 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@cardboard8073 3 года назад

Heh

@BixbyConsequence 3 года назад

It evens got it.

@dougaltolan3017 3 года назад

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@classicaltrombone 3 года назад

I love that the date is set to the release date of the video. Continuity calms me.

@OnTheCouchWithAC 3 года назад

And it being set to 4:20

@KentHambrock 3 года назад

So much for no effort November xD

@CloudyAce 3 года назад

@@OnTheCouchWithAC was looking for someone else who noticed in the comments

@OnTheCouchWithAC 3 года назад

@@CloudyAce Yeah I didn't see it so I had to mention it xD

@BillAnt 3 года назад

Some new fancy ones have a WiFi chip built in which will sync the time from any nearby router without having to even connect to it. My old Goldstar microwave has been blinking "12:00" since 1999, but at least it's still working unlike two Sharp's which broke after about a year or two.

@johnmaurer3097 Год назад

This channel is fascinating. Over the past year it’s popped up with random stuff and they’re so well detailed and explained that they suck me on completely. Keep up the great work!

@TheSuitedEngineer Год назад

In the early 2000s, my family used to have a White Sharp over-the-stove microwave that had all these same features including the animations, jingles, and recipes as well as the sensing capabilities. It was still a non-color dot matrix display but it actually had a resistive touch layer over it so it was touch screen. If I remember correctly, the number buttons were still physical buttons, but you could click through the menu options by touching the screen.

@UnforgetableLuncheon 3 года назад

"Turn the sound off completely." At last, the perfect microwave.

@_topikk_ 3 года назад

Almost all microwaves have an overt or hidden mute function. Google the manufacturer of your microwave and you'll likely find a key combination to unlock it.

@hollymart1 3 года назад

Unforgetable Luncheon a lot of brands have a mute function, holding #1 button for a sec or two works on mine

@Mythricia1988 3 года назад

y'all talking about key combinations, my microwave rings a mechanical bell mechanism when it's done. Hard to mute that one!

@flowerpt 3 года назад

desoldering the beeper from the PCB is usually straightforward. Torture averted.

@chickenmonger123 3 года назад

@@Mythricia1988 No it isn’t. But you do have to stuff something in it, which might not be feasible without a screwdriver.

@AlexAguilarAnguiano 3 года назад

Can we start a petition for Sharp to reintroduce this microwave? I really want one!

@dragonsparadox2785 3 года назад

Public Corp/Public Manufacturing/Open source design would bring the best features of everything to everyone.

@MorryB 2 года назад

If they did bring it back, it probably wouldn't last more than 5-10 years like most new appliances made these days.

@dragonsparadox2785 2 года назад

@@MorryB better luck if don't buy american made I've noticed. but Public Corp open source design will optimize everything greater good including best features and full life cycle and recycle

@crunch9876 2 года назад

It’ll cost like 2k I imagine

@dragonsparadox2785 2 года назад

not that we going to keep the existing Economic World Order anyway. the Order of Nations is bankrupt and past reform. Overpopulation is a ecological fact as evidenced by wildlife loss. The 6th Great Extinction has to end, and democracy is a system of Ignorance Rule. Empire of Atheism, Government of Science, Military Dictatorship of Intelligence Rule is what next. what I said earlier would of been the reformist approach, but obviously we past that now

@ScrotumWizard Год назад

Im so glad there’s a videos so well made about a topic so niche and strange, like microwaves.

@SeriouslyTechy Год назад

Absolutely love your channel. Your script delivery has to be the best in youtube, you keep it simple yet add so much emotions just using tone. Nothing over the top, no craziess yet it keeps you engaged.

@CigaretteTricks 3 года назад

This is what unlocking 100% of your microwave's brain looks like

@Wolficefang 3 года назад

Thanks for this I read it as "this is what microwaving 100% of your brain looks like" because I'm scrolling too quickly.

@7Ghos 3 года назад

BWOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

@pearljoslyn9947 2 года назад

I know you spent ten minutes going through why this microwave is technically superior, but you had me at the tiny chef animation

@notmotho Год назад

🤓

@flackenstien 7 месяцев назад

I just want to say that this channel is amazing. It feels right out of the golden era of RU-vid. Other channels should strive to put in this much care and effort.

@likewise7mercury7 26 дней назад

idk how to truly put it into words the emotional reaction I had to hearing the microwave's finished jingle. That's literally so sweet. I know I'm the kind of person who gets too attached to objects, so that's partly of it, but to think someone cared enough to make the sound clear and cheerful, to add little animations, to make multiple sounds for the buttons... it's so nice to see. Best of all, it's that while also being helpful, accurate, and convenient. I think most times creatively appealing appliances (ay new brand name) just use artistic features as a sort of novelty, to stand out among all the fancy brands, rather than actually providing good features- though in truth I think I'd still rather see that at least. It's a sad, bland world out here. This microwave has more heart put into it than I've personally ever seen in appliances. As in like, someone went, you know microwaves are kind of cool actually. Let's get them up to date. I think it's the sort of appreciation that gets me. The same feeling I get when I see videos of people talking about old PCs and theorizing the thought behind what may seem like odd design choices. (Or when able to, research and find out exactly why it was done that way)

@amai_zing Год назад

I feel like a lot of love went into designing and engineering this machine - something we’re definitely not used to nowadays

@RealNameNeverUsed Год назад

Probably the result of working long hours in Japan, they just don’t know what else to do so they get creative.

@ljv2094 Год назад

@@RealNameNeverUsed their candy is out of this world too. It redefined what candy was in my head 😮

@OneAdam12Adam 6 месяцев назад

The Chinese have no morals therefore no love or craftsmanship.

@pixelatedmushroom 2 года назад

Yes. Today, "smart appliance" means it can sort of connect to your wifi and has a poorly written, buggy app that you will never use. Let's throw in a 1-year warranty too. Wish "smart" was more like this.

@RichardFStripeRendezvous Год назад

Yep... VERY against "smart" appliances, but against my morals bought a "smart" lightbulb for our bedroom a couple years ago, because it could be programmed to turn on and slowly get brighter in the morning to help me wake up. Realized I had to download an app, CREATE AN ACCOUNT for God-knows-why, connect the bulb to my wifi, give it a name, and then connect it to my phone. The app was super slow and buggy, the UI was horrid, and worst of all it just straight up didn't work. Oh, and did I mention the light bulb was like twenty bucks?

@ictogon Год назад

@@RichardFStripeRendezvous I want a smart lightbulb with no internet that I can plug into my computer with USB and manually configure through a simple text file, with all the commands and options listed in a printed manual that comes with the light bulb.

@toryannasJMW Год назад

@@ictogon we have lamps plugged into plugs that have an on off remote. It’s simple, but offline and solves the argument of who gets up to turn the lights off.

@NewWindsorPD Год назад

@@ictogon Better yet, a mechanical lamp that has an internal clock, a d by turning a dial, the lamp dims in and out at certain times of day. Magical, right? Except I have never, ever seen a lamp like that.

@SviatoslavDamaschin Год назад

@@NewWindsorPD One question, why do you need to integrate all that stuff in to a light bulb, why not doing it with the switch instead?

@Brassblitz Год назад

I remember dancing in my kitchen to that 'times up' tune as a kid! Food's done? Dance time! And the hour glass! This seriously brings back so many memories for me. Sadly, I never truly appreciated the power of the "Crazy Menu"...

@MiguelAbd Год назад

My parents have a 1994 Brastemp (Brazilian maker that was bought by Whirlpool in the early 2000s) microwave which includes a sensor function for food, beverages and popcorn, automatic cooking for some vegetables and rice, unfereeze function for specific types of food and meats and a "browning" function that works with IR lamps on top of the microwave. It includes a platform to get the food closer to the browner. It's also a huge microwave, it has an internal capacity of 27L, way beyond any modern microwave sold here in Brazil.

@BritishAPT 3 года назад

Ahh yes, I love this series of "Antique things that are better than modern ones." Keep it up!

@bananya6020 3 года назад

@Softy all about cost. microwaves and toasters were more expensive relatively at the time

@softback132 3 года назад

@Softy Money, even a simple as kitchen utility such as knives that my grand parents bought from the 90s is still in use while the newer knives that we both from 2010s is rarely used because they dull quite fast. And the handle from older knives already rotted away. Lol

@deanintheg 3 года назад

Yep and its a long list

@rogerszmodis 3 года назад

@@softback132 because you bought shitty knives.

@MrStabby19812 3 года назад

@@softback132 I'm still using a, couple of knives from the 70s

@timothyhilditch 3 года назад

"No effort November" precedes to set the microwaves date to upload day.

@paulgibson193 3 года назад

Nice catch! I missed that.

@SydBat 3 года назад

This should be the number one comment!

@UKfanX13 3 года назад

Also the time choice

@probablynovideoshere 3 года назад

also changing the time to 4:20. Us stoners appreciate that sort of thing.

@paulec252 3 года назад

Also the quick zoom out reveal of the “so sharp DID” line shows he’s not taking NEN seriously.

@Firstname..Lastname Год назад

“Stainless Steel and Black may be cold, but they’ll be nice and cold forever”. This is a raw line that you just casually dropped on me that’s not ok 😂

@augustinehuizing6683 6 месяцев назад

never have I been so envious of someone else's microwave

@Phroggster 3 года назад

Those silly teens and their "one second left" tendencies. As an adult, I've honed my skills down to being able to open the door on the same microcontroller clock cycle that the timer reaches zero, thereby skipping the beep as well as having to press the cancel/reset button to clear the timer out and avoiding another beep. We night owls have some practice.

@havoc1482 3 года назад

There are dozens of us...

@davidthegoldsmith4195 3 года назад

At least 3

@darcksage1 3 года назад

SAME

@Greenteabook 3 года назад

You have become trained by the machine.

@colinantink9094 3 года назад

I de beeped mine. God damn the house does not need to be woken by me making noodles at 3am by TEN 1 second beeps. My old one just did a polite ‘ding’ before I discovered it was also cooking me. Get a microwave radiation sensor people!

@RisingRevengeance 3 года назад

_"You can turn off sound"_ This "feature" alone is almost enough for me to look for one

@frederf3227 3 года назад

Check your manual, most can silence beeps. Sometimes it's not obvious looking at the panel or not even in the manual.

@supermills03 3 года назад

12:05 AM *BEEP!* What are you cooking? nothing! I mean Nachos.

@RisingRevengeance 3 года назад

@@frederf3227 My old and dumb microwave seems to have none of that in the manual. Best I could do is remove the speaker.

@lily_anatia 3 года назад

you can turn off sound on any microwave oven. some just require a screwdriver and a soldering iron to do it.

@iscander_s 3 года назад

If you have a Samsung microwave, you can turn off the sound by pressing Start and Stop buttons simultaneously

@bigmaclily Год назад

Maintenance came in when you were explaining the popcorn function, and we had a funny little conversation about how modern microwaves always burn the popcorn! Thanks for bringing us a smile

@Froezone 7 месяцев назад

my grandparents had something like this, had the same noises and similar icons. brings back good memories

@SharpForceTrauma 3 года назад

6:37 I assume the play-doh option is so in the off chance you make a play doh creation that you want to bake and harden forever. Truly fascinating how they went that far.

@DrNickBailey 2 года назад

Interesting, my thought was it would be to make playdough - though I've only ever known that done on a hob.

@choreomaniac 2 года назад

Yeah. I assume in this case when steam is no longer detected it shuts off. Very interesting.

@coastaku1954 2 года назад

@@DrNickBailey No one has hobs anymore

@lewisandjessrock 2 года назад

@@coastaku1954 what?

@oxybrightdark8765 2 года назад

@@coastaku1954 Hob is the British term for a stove top. Most families have one.

@pyro-millie5533 3 года назад

God I love 90’s tech. Everything was so fun because “why not”! The little animations on the display are so cute! And it has legitimately good pixel art too! Thanks for sharing this marvel with us

@Kryynism 2 года назад

Everything was fun. Golden Arches in walmart or kmart with ronald mcdonald statue sitting on a bench outside so can eat junkfood before grocery shopping. Game consoles were neato and different instead of just cold gaming towers. Bubbly brightly colored and interesting playgrounds. Toys were stronger and cooler. Nerf guns last a few shootouts today instead of years. Every birthday for my son I end up buying 100+ dollars in nerf for his buddies and him to have a shootout and they barely last a week. Action figures suck. Barbies suck. Only good thing is legos but they are all boring pop culture builds now. 80s c4 corvette had a badass star trek digital display for speed and whatnot, now cars are still making basic gages with only a few very boring digital displays floating around. Lol sorry for ranting I could go on and on. Peak Americanism was 80s and 90s. Now everything is cold cyber dystopian tech. Calculated designs by AI and think tanks. Late stage capitalism is as boring as new communism. Hahaha everyone looks the same. Everything looks the same. Everything works the same. And the only high quality products are expensive and designed to fall apart. Snoooze.

@sayhowling 2 года назад

back when people actually care…. imean modern companies still care……about making excessive money. putting up price while making less. yes im still salty about iphone’s earphone jack lmao

@JrIcify 2 года назад

I don't get it because to me there was never a reason to get rid of the colour and fun in things. Everyone just unanimously agreed to it at some point.

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

The 1950s was better. Look at old movies. Each car had a personality instead of cookie-cutter like the 90s cars. Radio and TV sets had style. People met at soda fountains to socialize. (Et cetera.) You can fill-in the rest.

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

Everybody thinks their childhood decade is better than the current one. But not really true. Just different. The 90s didn’t have free or cheap entertainment (TV, movies) through the internet. Work from home option. The 90s had constant warfare US versus some country.

@ridleyroid9060 Год назад

This is an incredibly cute product that had TONS of effort put into it, holy smokes (or should I say vapors?)!

@rogue3398 Год назад

It's wonderful of kitchen appliances to also be clocks. I only wish that they could acquire the time on their own somehow after a power outage (preferably without being a snoop). Then again, when I was a kid my parents owned a property we didn't actually use very often and the one time we came to the house after four months of not being there and the kitchen clocks were still set, it was like an act of God. We all stood there and stared at the stove for a minute. It was a vaguely entertaining moment at a very bad time in my life and for that I am grateful to kitchen appliances for not actually knowing the time.

@punchy77855 3 года назад

There are eight thousand people here talking about microwaves. This is how RU-vid should be

@JosephLorelli 3 года назад

That's what I appreciates about you.

@ianalfonzo8226 3 года назад

Nawww, we should argue about politicians we don't like until someone reports the comments..

@letsplayer1018 3 года назад

Honestly yeah. We all use microwaves so why not learn more about them

@jj5153 3 года назад

Yes, they should incorporate a direct message system to other users.

@jnr2349 3 года назад

lol, honestly i appreciate a little tech facts every once in a while, but imagining youtube as a place for discussions on random tidbits of information only is devoid of humanity and soul sucking. I can only imagine you say this because youre tired of the toxicity of politics, but we are social beings, politics is necessary. I dont mean boot licking politicians and not having emotional maturity. I mean deciding how we want to live our lives collectively. Also, we all know it's cheaper for corporations to make crappy microwaves, it's in the profit motive, which is a manifestation of a specific political economic form of production.

@yolo_burrito 2 года назад

Imagine if Texas Instruments had a competing graphing microwave.

@PinataOblongata 2 года назад

It could graph the ratio of burning hot to frozen solid matter at the end of your first guess at cook time!

@tomasrosalesr 2 года назад

Your comment actually made me laugh 😂

@adolfilyichmarx9589 2 года назад

The tasty curve

@JrIcify 2 года назад

It would use the exact same hardware as this but cost $10,000 and you'd need to take classes on how to use it. Also the home owners associations would force everyone on their streets to own microwaves and the list of approved microwaves is that one.

@FWDSUXARSE 2 года назад

You'd be able to play Doom and Drug Wars on it then.

@colinf2316 Год назад

My parents still have this microwave in their kitchen. Bought it the year it came out. Still works just fine.

@waddayabuying5258 Год назад

I like the charm the tones create it's to adorable

@shiftymiata 3 года назад

The fact that you set the date on the microwave to the day the video was uploaded (which was very likely NOT the same day this was filmed) is exactly the kind of thing that makes me love this channel. Even your low effort-videos are far better made than 95% of other RU-vidrs.

@justinsommerfeld7027 3 года назад

I"m not sure if Alec can make something with Low Effort

@andrew_koala2974 3 года назад

Justin Bailey So that you wake up from decades of mental slumber, THIS segment was not FILMED. Get the point that FILM has not been used for decades. Reprogram your 128 Kb brain.

@jacksonlarson6099 3 года назад

@@andrew_koala2974 What is your problem? Did you know that blueprints haven't been blue for decades? Did you know that you no longer dial a number nor do you actually hang up a phone? Did you know that you don't actually roll up the windows in most cars anymore? It's almost like that's just how normal people communicate, something you might want to look into.

@MrFastFox666 3 года назад

Smart appliances 20 years ago: We can make your microwaving experience automatic beyond belief! 'Smart' appliances today: You can turn it on from your friend's house for only $1.99 per month!

@DARE0451 3 года назад

You're right and you should say it.

@GermanTopGameTV 3 года назад

Most "smart" appliances today take more time to set up and configure for each of their functions than a manual operation would. Which is precisely why most of the features on them are never used. This, by the way, also applies to most other tech. Hell, even smartphones these days are usually religated to the main use case of texting and calling someone, which most phones arguably did much better in the past. I, for one, have never seen anyone use their smartphones tripple camera to shoot a blockbuster movie, like the advertisement suggests. It's more like shitty photographs of computer screens because the screenshot feature was to difficult to use.

@MichelLinschoten 3 года назад

That's so fucking true! Everything needs a fucking subscription

@MilwaukeeWoman 3 года назад

@@MichelLinschoten I have some generic wifi LED lightbulbs from Amazon and I can control them from anywhere without extra subscription. Some generic smart plugs too. They can be scheduled for security stuff, too. There's multiple brands of these,c about $14 for a lightbulb and you can even control the color. Works with Google home or whatever they're calling it now.

@Ktulu789 3 года назад

You gotta pay to connect to your own MW?? IOFT internet of fuck*ng things.

@BladeRunner21577 7 месяцев назад

I love the out takes at the end. Your effort is worth it.

@dietrichhoefer Год назад

The fact that the microwave’s date was set to the same day that this video was uploaded..... that is satisfying!

@psivewri 3 года назад

But can it play doom?

@nicosmind3 3 года назад

Dominion voting machines can. Machines so flawed and programable as to be absolutely useless

@FreeportHometown 3 года назад

Yes

@motherurck7542 3 года назад

@@nicosmind3 it's like they shouldn't even be used for voting... Imagine that.

@jackfroste 3 года назад

@@nicosmind3 After we're all done and thru with Dominion, Doom (the game) may be all that they will be good for.

@Pauldjreadman 3 года назад

With soda or beer?

@arthyualagao8279 3 года назад

Please don't tell me 1997 was "decades ago", I'm not ready for that

@ve2dmn 3 года назад

Welcome to the rest of your life. It only get worse from here.

@Aplesedjr 3 года назад

To be fair, it’s only barely able to be several decades ago. It would have been only about 2 decades ago in 2016.

@BobWiersema 3 года назад

Technically it was last century.

@fl0atpvnk 3 года назад

None of us are

@WasatchWind 3 года назад

Considering I was born in 97, I'm definitely not.

@Aural.Illusions 6 месяцев назад

I watch all videos with closed captioning and I love the accuracy of your captions (and the post video comments; it feels like an inside joke that I get to be a part of). Keep up the excellent videos!

@redwood76 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for all the hard work merry christmas!!!

@sylviaelse5086 3 года назад

"Why don't we make a microwave oven that people will use for the next thirty years? Oh, OK, I get it."

@larryechols8487 3 года назад

There is no profit in a microwave that will last more than the garante, that sucks.

@Aplesedjr 3 года назад

I haven’t ever seen a microwave not work anyone unless someone purposefully breaks it in some way, so I can’t imagine there is a whole lot of profit in making microwaves that last less than 30 years. Especially since most homes and apartments have microwaves built in that basically never need replacing.

@NeblogaiLT 3 года назад

Maybe we should demand 5-10 year warrantee for electric appliances that have already technologically peaked in their efficiency and speed.

@tatwood93 3 года назад

@@Aplesedjr In the early 2000s, my parents had an old microwave probably from the 90s that caught on fire. Replaced it with one that I believe had sensor cooking in hindsight but we were too dumb to use it. Also, my grandparents had a microwave nearly identical to the one in the video "sharp carousel mc" but got rid of it when it was about 10 years old, just because of its age.

@oneselmo 3 года назад

Logan Sanders Well, the magnetron is a vacuum tube that produces microwaves, and vacuum tubes gradually lose their output as they're used. That means every time you use your microwave, the magnetron deteriorates a little bit. So if you only use it to nuke your morning coffee, you'll probably get 30 or40 years out of it. You'll find that to heat a cup of soup took 40 seconds when new now takes upwards of a minute; so it's no longer convenient to use. Yes, you can replace the magnetron, but the cost of the tube and the labour to replace it is more than a new unit.

@zfinley 3 года назад

6:37 ah yes, I have been laughed at all my life for preferring to eat my play dough warm instead of right from the can, but finally someone else understands

@KiroBankov Год назад

Besides being superior in function and usability, I'm also impressed with the quality and longevity of those old machines. I'm using a 1980s era Elektra Bregenz microwave oven on a daily basis and it's still going strong. I'd hate to replace it someday. Also, despite its age, I have the feeling that it's faster than modern microwaves I've used.

@BlankBrain 9 месяцев назад

My Panasonic inverter microwave is great. It has a rotary time/weight select dial rather than a keypad. Rotation speed changes granularity. The oven fits in the dedicated spot where there was a GE Spacesaver from the '80s. This was the main reason I got it, but I love the features too. I tried to fix the old microwave, but the transformer secondary was open and the core was welded. I parted it out.

@a-goblin 3 года назад

_"and of course, it won't be bricked in three years when the startup behind it inevitably folds."_ lmfaoooo absolutely brutal _"it's yellowing a bit"_ excuse me, where? if we ignore the rust spots on the inside, it looks like the cleanest microwave anyone's ever owned.

@KidPrarchord95 3 года назад

Yellowing often times doesn't pick up well on camera, especially if filters are applied to the footage.

@Drivingmychrysler 3 года назад

Towards the end you can see slight yellowing around the screen/number pad

@irixperson 3 года назад

White and beige plastics naturally yellow due to reaction with sunlight; this effect isn't always noticeable when filmed.

@AlexanderSiracusa 3 года назад

Thankfully not all of them will do that since there was also a black version available

@chetw3139 3 года назад

Obviously, there wasn't a child who thought they'd heat up a heat pad for too long to get it to "last longer." (That's not how that works child!) Or misread the instructions and put 30 minutes instead of 3:00 minutes. Maybe there wasn't a child that wanted to eat popcorn but ran it by the instructions incorrectly. Running what was supposed to be at half power at full power. Resulting in everything ever cooked in that microwave now smelling and tasting slightly of popcorn. Even after over 7 deep cleanings. Oh, how can we forget running the microwave without anything in it, just because it's fun! How about cooking smores and not watching to make sure the marshmallow doesn't explode. Or cooking something with cheese/water and not watching for it to bubble just in case. Resulting in it bubbling over and noodles everywhere. Just... Soo many accidents and problems a child can cause to a microwave. Most of which can result in discoloration. (Like sharpies... No sharpies ever again.) Oh, and as someone here so wonderfully pointed out, plastics can discolor with age and light. Just buy used legos and you'll see the difference. (Although there are tricks to restore the color in that case.)

@ElectroBOOM 3 года назад

"Low Effort", eh?! The only low effort I see here is the typical amount of hair gel!!

@user-vm1hi7bo5s 3 года назад

Hi there

@glasstronic 3 года назад

Heheheh...

@willpreston6881 3 года назад

Mehdi! Really cool to see you here. I'm so glad that all of my favorite edutainment/tech youtubers are in the same little clique.

@prolayerchecker 3 года назад

LOL

@Wilsons-World 3 года назад

Electrovroom

@Zappr 6 месяцев назад

The date on the microwave being the date that you uploaded the video... just wow. I love that detail.

@Justawaffle12 Год назад

My grandparents owned this Microwave. The jingle made my day, it reminded me of my grandparents home.

@jesusdiazllam.1126 3 года назад

Microwave in 1997: "I can cook popcorn, potatoes and meat and I also have recipees you can follow with the microwave" Microwave in 2020: "You can have the crust of your hot pocket warm but I draw the line at the inside meat"

@Xn7000 3 года назад

Nah, the cheese on the ends will be like nuclear fire, but the center will still be neatly crystalized in ice.

@Ndlanding 3 года назад

It's sad that people eat that rubbish. hot or not.

@Xn7000 3 года назад

@@Ndlanding it's just a microwave calzone. It's a product that should exist; like a McDonald's cheeseburger. Sometimes something easy and hot is all you need. That being said, the market is lacking a good quality frozen calzone....

@Ndlanding 3 года назад

@@Xn7000 They do pretty good calzones here in the supermarket in Spain. Oh, and I tried a MacDonalds once. Never again.

@suzannepottsshorts 3 года назад

Microwave in 2020: I killed a lightbulb

@scottslayer2 3 года назад

"The clock should be more prominent on the screen" Clock is at 4:20 NICEEEEE

@psmstr 3 года назад

dude WEEEEEEEED lmao

@Daniel-yy3ty 3 года назад

you got the wrong number there... nice is 69

@anomalouslymandatory 6 месяцев назад

Man, seeing and especially hearing this again brought on a rush of childhood nostalgia.

@Ruthann133 Год назад

We owned that microwave and loved everything about it. We must have had it for 15 years!! We used the recipes and the auto cooks all the time. And also loved the sound it made when your food was finished cooking and the animation it had. Best microwave ever! When it finally quit working we replaced it with a Frigidaire which was noisy when running and tinty sounding when you shut the door and half the microwave that the Sharp Carousel was. That lasted for a couple of years and here we are buying another one....this time a Sharp with supposed sensor operations. We'll see. I sure wish that I my Sharp Carousel microwave back!! Thanks for your review it made me very nostalgic for my old microwave!

@mind-of-neo 3 года назад

I hate how the word "smart" in this low-effort, minimalist era literally just means it connects to some horrid, nebulous cloud network via wifi.

@tc2241 3 года назад

And generally does two uses things: Collecting data Sending notifications

@thiscould2299 3 года назад

It's so that can save some "innovations" for next year so 9t can make your old phone outdated.

@pavelperina7629 3 года назад

2020: It's nearly impossible to send 200MB file from one phone to another phone or computer conveniently.

@Coupe420 3 года назад

@@pavelperina7629 ? You can easily send 200mb of data? And what the hell would my microwave need 200 mb of data for? It turns on, it turns off! Next gagekt! The bag of popcorn says 2:45 for a 1200w microwave, definitely not 200mb, and I can read!

@JukaDominator 3 года назад

@@pavelperina7629 Air Droid?

@ChesterT89 Год назад

Even though I’m subscribed, this didn’t show up on my feed for nearly a year…algorithmmmmm! Love the sincere appreciation for this appliance. Truly made me feel like the industry messed up

@Yelahrecneps Год назад

I love your sense of humor. Your videos are the best

@WhatIsThatThingDoing 3 года назад

Can you imagine an updated version of this? Even keep the dot matrix, just finer with black backdrop with luminous white detail for improved visibility, and a few tweaks and updates, and we'd be onto a winner.

@jan_sipiki 2 года назад

I WANT IT

@waqasahmed939 2 года назад

Panasonic don't have this per se but they do have a 4 in 1 microwave, which is dead tempting

@rosiefay7283 2 года назад

+1 for "black backdrop with luminous white detail for improved visibility"

@_jg_7640 Год назад

well, it will probably be a 'revolutionary' / 'cutting edge' technology in next year or so xD ofc you will need connect to wifi at all times and register and account with all your info...

@brandonmacdonald7802 Год назад

I think the market for unique boutique microwaves is severely under serviced...

@PsRohrbaugh 3 года назад

"for now, it's a spare" - I don't know how many people are in your household or how often you have guests, but putting a second microwave on the counter in my kitchen was the best upgrade I did. It's great for two people to be able to warm their own microwave meals at the same time so they can eat together, or warm up multiple dishes simultaneously when serving a large group.

@andythekitsune 3 года назад

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@CODMarioWarfare 3 года назад

Just make sure they’re on separate circuits or else they’ll blow a fuse This post brought to you by the prewar house gang. May god have mercy on your soul if you forget to turn off the air conditioner on the other side of the house before reheating your lunch

@PsRohrbaugh 3 года назад

@white Do you find more Autobot or Decepticon microwaves?

@sliceofbread2611 3 года назад

@white what do the transformers want you to do with those old microwaves?

@PsRohrbaugh 3 года назад

@@CODMarioWarfare that's a good point! My built-in microwave is on it's own circuit, and then I have two separate circuits for each side of my kitchen.

@liquidfur2 Год назад

I still have two different model Sharp Carousel microwaves. The earlier countertop model (93-94?) is the one I still use today. I've had it repaired twice over the years. The sensor features are amazing. The later model (2000-01?) is an over-the-range model that I use for extra storage space. It was never as good as the original "Sensor Reheat" technology. Also the 4:20 time setting was a nice touch.

@Vinemaple Год назад

Hey, thanks for this. I grew up without a microwave, learned to cook without one, but my work and living situation nowadays will be a lot simpler now that I know that on some microwaves, the specific cooking settings actually work. I figure maybe the reason this didn't catch on might be the sheer number of options working against themselves and overwhelming whiny focus groups or being hard for skeptical microwave shoppers to believe.