Why Almost Every Microwave is Made by the Same Company 

well... this video is like a movie, a small one

Actually, HAI is open about their stock footage supplier. They mentioned it in a past video.

Fwiw, I am feeling kinda done with the stock footage aesthetic! 10 years from now it will look like bell bottoms did in the 80s, or neon colours in the 90s. And then in 20 years it will have its resurgence 😭

That would actually be a cool idea for some art or university-student movie. A movie composed entirely of stock footage.

@@TamagoHead I'm pretty sure their stock footage supplier has sponsored them a bunch of times.

They are cheap because they are low quality and you'll have to buy one every few years instead of them lasting decades like they used to.

@not a bunch of kids in a trench - please DENOUNCE both that account and "fantastic flavours" to YT for SPAMMING. WE. HATE. BOTS.

@@filonin2 Replacing a $50 microwave every 4 years is a bargain, compared to needing to replace $200 glasses every 2 years because your prescription changed.

The reason why they’re different is mentioned in the video: the microwave manufacturer sells very little directly and luxottica does the opposite, they have the market controlled under their different brands plus the ones they sell to. Both are monopolies, but only one has a monopoly of the market

That's because they're different forms of monopoly. Luxotica is vertically integrated, so they're selling their own products, where as those microwaves are being sold my third parties like GE or Whirlpool abd manufactured by the OEM. GE and all the rest want to be price competitive, so if the OEM was price gouging they could go and find someone else to make microwaves for them since they aren't *that* complex.

Ah it's the famousish guy!

What an honor 😭

Famous Fish

@@kvxtr glub 🐟

So you can turn the microwave on with a metal rack inside?

@@arctic5177 The metal rack probably has the right shape, so that it reflects the microwaves without having spots with high voltage sparking. If you're good at high frequency electrical engineering you can make your own racks that don't spark.

A microwave without metal walls would be dangerous. The metal reflects the microwaves and keeps them inside the cavity where they heat the food and not out with you.

@@arctic5177 that would be why they’re sold with them.

The danger of putting metal in a microwave is putting too much metal and not enough microwave absorbing stuff (mostly food) that is not protected by metal in the microwave with it. A sealed can of beans, for example, will damage the magnetron and blow a fuse before the beans get hot.

No, there are 3 brick making companies

Thats me. its made by an combination of : Dirt, Ant queens, Germanium, plutonium and Blood.

"instructive"? oops, you mean informative

Here is one out of left field ... The unification church (the moonies) has a near monopoly on the sushi fish trade in america. Church members operate most of the fishing boats, distributors and I believe even a portion of actual retail.

@@benjaminwatt2436 did not ask + thank you nonetheless + have a nice day

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It’s to charge more for some than others. Restrict features otherwise they’d all be the same and the same price. It’s the same with most tech.

Most likely the MAGNETRON is THE SAME, but the design allows for each brand to chose from several FEATURE OPTIONS to "make it theirs", like the features in a BADGE ENGINEERED CAR.

@@syxepop why did you capitalize big words

Just because you have autisum levels to hearing dosnt mean I dont want to know when my food is ready

If you want to REALLY make money, get a current copy of the Hollander interchange manual. You can find out what $25 Chevy part is identical to the $90 Cadillac part.

That's wrong cheap brake pads wear out twice as fast as the cheap ones definitely

Just coz its made by the same company doesnt mean its the same quality tho. Like - the same hairdressers make 5 dollars haircuts and 250 dollars haircuts.

@@ghost307 Last time I priced it, the Hollander was around $25k, so you had better be making a lot of money. 🤣

At least for fluids, the SDS has to squeal on the actual manufacturer.

I have a Panasonic tv and absolutely love it. The colours are so good, way better than my Samsung

Agreed, my Panasonic microwave is the best for that adjustable power level. I will only get another Panasonic to replace it when the time comes, my current one is 10 years old and still going strong.

Panasonic is, as far as I know, the only company making inverter microwaves, and they're so much better than normal microwaves. I don't understand why they don't advertise this more

bought a Panasonic rice cooker and an electric kettle because they were both still made in Japan. both are indestructible, which is why when these eventually break in another decade, I won't find another to replace them. just like their plasma TVs...

Yes! The author failed with the one word in his title: Almost He didn't bother to mention Panasonic's variable power microwave which is wonderful, it is a superior machine for cooking and reheating. It is probably or very close to the most expensive microwave that Walmart stocks at my store locally, and I completely understand the economies of scale. I accidentally destroyed the cheap microwave at work with spilled coffee, but my co-owner didn't want a more expensive Panasonic - they like the idea of being able to press a single button and the single button both starts the oven and adds 30 more seconds, and can be touched multiple times adding 30 seconds per touch, which doesn't have to be all used. And the 1,2 and 3 buttons automagically do that many minutes, 1,2,3 with a single button. I don't think the Panasonic does that. I wish I would have noted when I purchased the Panasonic so that I could judge it longevity. I already have a benchmark for time as to how long it takes for a cup of coffee to go from room temp to not quite boiling, so I will be able to tell if it begins to lose power.

> most of these manufacturers will proudly display a "made in the USA" label That's because of US laws though. Of course they will if they can!

"What part of the product was made in the USA?" "The profit!"

Made in China is best

no underwriters lab sticker = fake

Overlords? The consumers caused this problem by choosing to buy things made in China. You could just spend more money on goods that aren't cheap.

I can guarantee you GE, Samsung, LG, Whirlpool and half dozen other brands had an oven to fit that space. I just replaced my over the range this month and when I plugged my dimensions in I had to spend a couple of hours reading reviews to decide which one-it was a buttload of options 😆

@@LikeSpee i bought the cheapest tiniest microwave i could find. branded hyundai and cost me whopping 20€. works fine no need to spend more. its a plate and makes hot food. Only downside is popcorn bags are too big

Well we can all take our pick of our favourite brand. When the glass plate breaks it's reassuring to know that there will be no big deal replacing it as they are all the same.

@@hillppari I bought a hot air popper for about $20; takes about the same amount of time as microwave bags, without the added butter flavored crude & other additives.

@@hillppari Dang, that is tiny!

There also seems to be brand mishmashing with transformers and magnetrons. Strange to see a GE magnetron in an LG.

Magnetrons are also used in radars, their original application, so each country with a large defense budget has factories to make their own. But defense products only have one (legal) direct customer, their own government, which is willing to pay high prices, making them immune to economies of scale.

A lot is around patent expiry as well. 40 to 50 years ago there was still a lot of space for innovation in both of these components, so to make a microwave, you'd have to either develop a new magnetron or transformer or license the patents. As those patents expire, anyone can make them, so you eventually get all companies gravitating towards the ideal design (looking at cost, efficiency, reliability etc.) until everyone settles on the same basic components, and eventually one manufacturer becomes the best at making those products.

Amateur radio operators can make high power microwave transmitters out of microwave ovens, and rewind the transformer to make high current transformers of whatever voltage is desired.

There's a mindset in the US that "Made in China" means low-quality and cheap, thinking that the Chinese started manufacturing stuff (or US companies outsourced to them) at lower cost thanks to cheaper labor and less labor/environmental regulations. That might have been true at first, but now they are actually very good at what they do, come up with a lot of innovations, and produce as good or better quality than the US in many cases.

@@quillmaurer6563 There still is a lot of Chinese trash, though. Chinese manufacturing varies from top-notch to awful, depending on the company.

@@hoixthegreat8359 True. They make whatever they can sell, whether that's high-end stuff or utter junk. But not all of it is junk as many assume.

@@quillmaurer6563 It makes perfect sense, the US was garbage at manufacturing as well at first and it took decades for the US to develop heavy industries and become serious innovators. Now that the Chinese have been manufacturing so much and for so long, it seems they have learned how to stay on the cutting edge of innovation in both manufacturing techniques and quality. But I still think in many ways their primary advantage is the lower wages and environmental standards in Shenzen and similar places.

True. But I never understood this notion of “it’s low quality”. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT IF YOU BUY STUFF FOR PENNIES COMPARED TO THE OTHER PRODUCTS??? China has everything from low quality to high quality, all at their respective prices. So being mad that something doesn’t have the best quality when it was the cheapest option is incredibly dumb.

Thats called vertical integration

how much you pay for a regular(no filters/standard corection like a -1.75 or smth) in the US?

What’s wrong with that?

@@DanRustle it raises prices just for profit profiting on people who need glasses

@@shane_rm1025 plus a monopoly due to having no competitors.

More correctly, that would be Original Design Manufacturer, ODM.

Most likely Adam (the scripter) put that 🥚into Sam's script, but Sam went on and corrected it in editing.

nah bro, OED = Oxford English Dictionary. which is also manufactured by Midea and owned by Nestle.

with the sub 50 dollar microwaves they more or less just have a catalog, choose this, modify this and that for x bucks.

Who's the best?

@@Jkp1321 G.E. seemed to be the heartiest in our experiments. Sharp also performed well. Hamilton Beach, Magnavox and other brands kind of sucked, haha.

Just because they're all made by the same factory doesn't mean they're all made to the same specs.

without having done any research into this I can think of potential reasons that you still notice a difference * maybe Midea has a few models (eg say a different model for each common wattage of microwave oven) with different electrronics inside * if they all had identical electronics then it is likely that the difference is in the firmware, so maybe Midea allows the brands to customize\tweak the firmware\programming of the microwave

The magnetrons are essentially the same, but the power supply, electronics, display, mesh, and geometry are all different. So you will end up with microwaves of different shapes and sizes, with different dead spots, leaking more or less radiation, more or less efficient, with more or fewer or different features, all looking different and with different price points. So basically, they really do differ in almost all the ways that matter, even if they have the same core component.

Shit, I've got a 20 year old one that I don't remember what brand it is.

Ours is a Panasonic, but I had to stop and think about it.

The overton window also operates in the economic space as well as the political one. While every competent parent company isn't micro managing their franchisee's ( because that's what they basically are at that point) they don't need to, to create a monoculture that then creates a monoproduct, as evidenced in this video. You can operate "independently" while still being bound by the same philosophy that is binding everyone else, that then leads to the exact same end point as everyone else. It's the rules that are hegemonic, not the specific Managers.

Probably depends on the company. In some cases a parent company owns a smaller business (often a former independent one they bought) but is pretty hands-off. In other cases it's just a different logo to slap on the same products, nobody even really "employed" by the supposed brand. Or anywhere in between. Could even see this with GM, at different times in their history the brands have had varying degrees of independence. At one point Cadillac and Pontiac had basically nothing to do with GMC/Chevy, made their own designs from scratch, their own engines, and so on. At other times it has been painfully obvious that Cadillacs are just Chevys with a different badge, different grille, maybe different taillights, and a more luxurious interior.

Seems like a lot of window ACs are also manufactured by Midea. A lot of them share the same grille, controls, and chassis (ex. Frigidaire)

@@xcmskim4 yeah, which in a way makes it easier to find replacement parts. If we had a random part missing and found a replacement labeled as one of the other Midea-made brands, we knew it would be compatible without having to check anything else. It was great

No you Don't > would that Credit or Debit ?

Yes, marketing works, apparently. I'm not particularly brand loyal, so this doesn't concern me. I find many people stupid for falling for them. Be happy though that the price is low.

I notices the same thing when buying a coffee brewer with built in grinder. Same machine different faces and brands and up to 250% price difference 🤷‍♂️

It's not monopoly. If Midea started to get greedy, other companies will pop out.

you have :) if you would dig deeper

Thanks for writing that (Sam passed it way too fast)... BTW, the Toyota tied with the Lexus ES is the larger Avalon (to be discontinued as of the '22 MY), not the Camry. Soon (probably in '24 MY) after making today's ES in Japan for '23 MY, a new ES will come tied to the rumored FWD-based Toyota Crown (both being Made In Japan) that will be brought to The States.

Thanks

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Those +30s microwaves really annoy me. Last year I bought microwave that has two knobs, one for power and one for time. They perfected microwave UI really long time ago.

@@huuskari174 I straight up refuse to buy a microwave with the +30 button

I have had 2 microwaves in my life. Both GE and I honestly kinda confused. They make microwaves that only have 30 sec plus? Mine has the option, but you just press time coo if you want to include seconds, or just the numbers if you only need a round number.

I love that button. It's simple. Just press it a couple of times and that's it.

Perhaps? But Midea electronics are just cheaper in comparison to international known brands everywhere, even in China. It's a well known brand in China, though not much anywhere else.

The brand focusing in freezers or refrigerators is Haier. It's the equivalent of Midea in fridges.

Yeah... those damn freezers like to penetrate from time to time...

He forgot a 4TH one: Extremities... (and "Blondie" here does it with his "troop", so at least you know...)

Huh, the adblocker actually blocked content for once then

@@Mordecrox ??

@@saadusmani78 sponsorblock. Usually contributors are careful if the plug has content, but this time it was skipped as an ad, not as self-promotion (which I allow).

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@@JatPhenshllem - DENOUNCE "fantastic flavours" and "memecious" while you're at it (I did denounce both myself as well).

@@JatPhenshllem didn't help. I reported too. RU-vid is so loaded with bots now, that I'm honestly impressed.

There is only 1 manufacturer of shop vacuums; just as there used to be only 1 manufacturer of 'Malibu lights'.

@@lanaj1107 Yep. Still here. That is impressive, honestly

The thing with Disney and other entertainment conglomerates is that, in their vanity cards, they make sure to say, for example "Paramount: A Viacom company". That way, no one gets confused

@@georgedoty-williams2085 Yep! Meta will say "From Meta" on Facebook and Instagram. Disney will quickly point out that it owns the rights to Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar too.

@@GabeJBenson - -Disney- already does that with Pixar (both names usually appear side by side) and now with Star India.

There are likely only a handful of magnetrons on the market. Those thin button panels, however, are abused quite a bit by regular use. More robust buttons would be nice, but the food/water resistant membrane probably plays a role in the switch selection.

I had a Chevy that was actually a Toyota in disguise.

best example of this is the first gen chevy equinox, which was also branded as the opel antara, saturn vue, suzuki xl7, and the pontiac torrent. GM really likes rebadging their cars lmao

GM is the biggest when it comes to badge engineering. The same car can be sold as a Chevy in the US, a Holden in Oceania, an Opel in Europe, and a Vauxhall in the UK. Mitsubishi had a thing with Chrysler, Ford and Mazda have done it too. Toyota and Subaru are well known in their partnership from selling the same car as the Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ etc, plus the well known Luxury brands of Honda/Acura and Toyota/lexus when especially in their earlier years, just rebadged standard toyota/honda models as Acura/Lexus for the US market because they thought they'd sell better (and it worked)

What? The Lancer was never a captive import for Chrysler. The Lancer was originally an all-American Dodge, and in the 1980's was the H-body. You are wrong on your Chrysler claim.

@@MyerShift7 the first gen lancer was literally designed by Mitsubishi japan (designers Shinichi Yamamura & Munechika Namba) and the wikipedia article states it was sold as a captive import in the US. So are you sure about that claim?

You should have put a spoiler alert on your comment for people who haven't watched 4 minutes into the video.

Did your mall had Pearle Vision? That's theirs too... (and they own the Ray-Ban and Oakley brands while paying license on the rest) Let me update you on Luxottica... The Italian was bought by French company Essilor, whom already made lenses and lens coatings (to pare up with Luxottica's Transitions). THE VERTICAL INTEGRATION CONTINUES....

That's honestly great from a business perspective, whoever runs that company truly knows what they're doing

@@RealGrouchy Why are you reading the comments of a video you haven’t finished watching yet?

There is a little more to it than that. The extra 'brands' also have slightly different markets (not from USA so I can't speak to the ones you mentioned) but Sunglass hut is a specialist (have them here too) the others might be High, Mid or Low range pricing or even have a different appeal with 1 appealing to a younger market than the other.

To quote Bob Marley: "You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time!"

As a kid I remember thinking a zephyr was a type of cat because so many other Mercurys at the time were named after cats.

I think Ford made a mistake killing Mercury. I'm too young for a Lincoln but too cool for a Ford. So what do I have? A Subaru. And I used to have a Honda. I might be a Ford customer if Mercury was still a thing they made brand new.

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It's a Sprint not a Siprit, just btw!

fINaLy iTs HeRe

It's up to the company to spell their name the way they want it to be pronounced. For example Hyundai is pronounced "Hyeon-dae", but the spelling makes some people pronounce it "Hi-un-dye".

@@gabriell.4440I am not against people pronounce it as whatever they want to. I am only giving them the idea what this brand called in China.

May Dee to May Guo（America）, beutiful thing to beutiful country.

I am a software engineer, and am always surprised how people chase ans cherish more and more electronics, which are only just another level where something might and eventually will go wrong. I LOVE cables, love old things that are not digital and pretty much always buy less complicated alternatives if only I can

@@nodell8729 do you know the meme "software engineer vs tech enthusiasts"? There is a reason why mechanical things still exist today...

My LG's MW (like yours: 5 power levels, mechanical timer) is ~30 years old and works fine, BUT. The plastic wheels supporting the plate have eventually removed most of the paint from the ridge they are moving inside, and the bare steel is now oxidized - I'm afraid that corrosion will advance and I'll spend money on another one before I die.

Yeah but they aren't run by joker. They don't really want to see the world burn, they just want to beat down the current establishment to fill the power vacuum created. And targeting the real important stuff is effective, but leaves you with a lot of work to rebuild a functioning society after. The difficult part is to destroy just enough to get ahold of the power, and not more.

exactly, also could you kindly define that word, terr0r1$t? what does it mean to you?

Yeah but terrorists dont usualy want the WHOLE world to collapse, just the people who pissed them off to collapse.

@@iwantedtosavetheworld7358 he means someone who will blow shit up to cause problems, and that shutting down the suez or panama, or a semicon/microchip factory would be the best way to do it. Honestly, terrorism is only not a problem because terrorists go for symbolic targets over strategic targets half the time

@@Goretantath you sir know too much unlike others on this thread

pepsico..?

@@domotoro3552 they often share distrob centers

Not even close

Coca-Cola, Pepsico and The Dr. Pepper-Snapple Group do actually control most of the drinks industry

@@Lord_Foxy13 as most companies do in their industry, this isn't anything new. There's still competition 👍

Tohatsu or Honda to be more correct. however Honda is more in on the some what smaller engines.

Hand Tools too > Dewalt, Husky, Matco, Snap On, etc...

Nissan and Tohatsu's outboard motors are literally the same exact things, just with different logos. Evinrude and Johnson Marine also make basically the same engines under different names.

How do you do that, I never used a microwave in my life?

@@organizedchaos4559 It depends, if it isn't obvious you can look it up online for your specific model. It's also worth checking out the power level recommendations for specific types of food.

Yeah, came to the same conclusion, heating things more slowly in microwave makes her heat more evenly.

I mean, you've got to understand how microwaves work. 100% just means the magnetron is running the full time. 70% means it runs 70%, and 30% of the time it's "off"...for instance, at 50% it might run for 5 seconds then off of 5 seconds. The trick is how the microwaves affect water in your food.

@@nickmonks9563 Yes. That gives time for heat to spread through the food, which can prevent hot spots. Although it would be nice if someone made a microwave that could actually run at low power.

Same. I’ve scrapped out many too. A lot of the bigger appliances are pretty much all the same too.

It's not monopoly. If Midea started to get greedy, other companies will pop out and create their own microwaves.

Why are they broken though? Maybe you just have to replace the fuse and they would work.

@@jannikheidemann3805 All the ones I've salvaged were broken because they were just *old* & full of gunk [literally: several of them must have had owners who were smokers, there was so much tarry fur on their insides. Others were clearly just used next to a gas stove top, and never had spills/boilovers properly cleaned up after...]

All of the newer ones [judging from size; nukers have shrunk considerably over the years as people realized you'll never cook a turkey in one!] have aluminum wires for all except the low frequency coil on the xformer, so I'm not wasting any more time on scrapping anything but that from now on; aluminum scrap just isn't worth the effort involved at the current low price for the metal...

It's very common in the performance computer space, Nvidia and AMD license their graphics cards to other brands (the do end up carrying the brand name though) Ram manufacturers buy ram chips mainly from Samsung and micron. Monitor panels are mainly made by Samsung and LG, etc these last ones generally don't even have the brand on the licensed products.

@@C4CH3S yup, LCD panels and RAM chips were my first thought, too. Then there's NAND flash, and of course if we're in that corner we could consider Samsung and TSMC's market position making chips in general, and maybe even ASML as the only manufacturer of high-end lithography machines, though the reasons there are more everyone else dropping out while they kept spending on R&D for decades, as opposed to pure economics of scale.

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Nice profile pic ;)

@@C4CH3S, buying components from other companies is very common everywhere. The video talks about outsourcing manufacturing completely, including assembly.

They do. Part of the reason they're highly rated and have much more consistent heating

Does any company make their own Starscreams?

@@mididude03 They have a patent on the Inverter microwave tech. Whereas most other microwaves deliver 100% of the power in timed bursts to deliver its lower power levels, inverter evenly delivers a specific power all of the time. Supposed to lead to more even cooking.

OK, you've triggered the Transformers fan base here. It is MAGNETRON...

@@syxepop thanks 😅

That’s because asetek are basically patent trolls. They don’t hold the pump water lock combo rights outside of the USA.

asetek is an asshole, they patented having a pump in a CPU waterblock which is dumb that's like patenting an engine in a car and then preventing other manufacturers from making a car with an engine built in, how they managed to patent it is beyond me...

Yes and in my experience they're all terrible

@@KSJAFN Which is much less the case with microwaves unless you just misuse them. Tho on that, toaster oven >>> toaster any day cuz toaster oven has many more uses and is more customisable and is just all around better cuz of all that.

I have a Sharp combi bought back in 1993/4 it also has a remarkable good sensor build with in. But it might help that back in the late 80's and early 90's the trend was still to build something to last. And sure it works to this day like a charm.

Samsung does make their own microwaves tbf

I love the inverter feature! In fact right now I'm cooking pasta in my Panasonic microwave at power level 7. Never any boil over!

@@sbs5130 That's because inverter microwaves deliver constant power instead of cycling on and off. Once you've use it, it's hard to go back to ordinary ones which uses transformers.

I think he meant everywhere as in 'in every product category' and not as in 'in every geographical locale'

when the microwave is sus!!!

"Almost Every Microwave..."

@@Game_Hero that's right, and Panasonic is one of those exceptions.

It's probable that they are all made by the same company anyway, just two different production lines.

Can Microwave technology have advancements or will it just be stuck there?

@@darklex5150 What do you mean advancement? Microwaves are electromagnetic radiations of a certain wavelength - there's no changing that as it's a definition. There is a bit of wiggle room between the "microwave" band, but I'm quite sure they already found the best one. What could possibly happen is a company that tries to use a different wavelength, therefore changing the "microwave", but it won't be based on microwaves anymore, and they would still be probably inferior to the common microwave of today (aka they just tried all the feasible wavelenghts)

@@Serena-or7sl so the technology is stuck, alright, i get it.

@@darklex5150 I never really thought about the outlined property by the OP, but that does make sense. However do consider that there's more to them than just the wavelength and size, Panasonic (and maybe some others too?) have made inverter microwaves that can run at a lower power level. Not just the typical on/off duty cycles traditional ones have. This results in more even heating in my experience, less of the defrosting a chicken ending up with a mostly defrosted but some bits already cooked white experience. Then there are combi microwaves with thigns like convection oven and grill functionality integrated, I sometimes see them with the option to combine two of those heating sources but rarely more than two (likely for obvious reasons like maximum power draw from an outlet). There's also room for improvement with sensors that actually work, I've had one myself and the previous one of my parents that claimed to have "automatic programs" for certain food types and that the machine would handle it based on its sensors. Let's just say it wasn't great at best and some big failures. The current one in the new kitchen of my parents has some programs in it that actually work and seem to adjust the time a little bit during the process. So I wouldn't expect the form factor and exterior of microwaves to change much over time, but if there's any innovation it's likely in proper combinations of different heat sources and better (semi)automatic results from programs. There's also a lot of room for improvement in typical combi microwaves to make the UI better, faster and more intuitive.

Ask any Hell's Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares fan about "Chef Mike"...

Wait until you hear about microwaving hamsters back to life.

Ahem. Chevette.

@@DGTelevsionNetwork the Corvette was close to never rebadged as something else

A lot of Chevys sold in the US are rebadged Daewoos from Korea. GM outsources R&D of small cars to Korea to produce the Trax, Trailblazer, Malibu, Cruze, Spark,

I came here for this! Panasonic (from my research when looking for a new one a few years back) has the ONLY patent for the way their inverter works. Which is able to make it cook at a variable rate. If you notice every other microwave when cooking on a lower temp setting you can hear it cycling on and off -- at half power, it just cooks for 50% of the time at 50% rather than how Panasonic actually cooks at 50% the cooking power, and cooks the entire time. I was surprised he didn't mention that, but that might be a topic for Wendover rather than the awesome shorts that HAI does. :)

Now that's an handy piece of info. This video basically tells you that you may as well just buy a Midea branded microwave and save the money you'd otherwise pay to the front company, whereas I'd rather know whose companies do NOT cheap out on outsourced production.

The ones in the public areas are often heavy duty versions with metal cases, I guess they are a lot more expensive than the ones Media makes.

Pigs are different than cows. They meat has totally different taste and texture. Also pigs are much smarter than cows.

You’re saying food from an air fryer is worse than from a microwave?!

Yum

Would’ve been more tasty if they used x-rays. I want my dinner subjected to dangerous amounts of ionizing radiation

Mummy microwave

good they are convenient but make your food gross

saw a microwave many years ago, haven't seen again p.s. i am just poor

@@nade7242 A microwave can perfectly cook lots of foods, it's especially ideal for steam cooked things like vegetables or "baked" potatoes (the way most people make baked potatoes they are in fact steamed, not baked). They're also one of the best ways to heat up liquids.

@@VitalVampyr i use it for liquids and shitty food only

The GMC version of the El Camino was Sprint for a while (later Chevy used it on their version of the Suzuki Forsa / Swift), but later on they switched to CABALLERO (man). That's how much of a car guy I am (and it'd take Sam more than 4 minutes to dissect the rebadges just in cars sold in US).

@@syxepop I remember the Chevy sprint and spirit in the late 1980s. And you're right, "Badge engineering" would be a pretty long video.