On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:05:45 GMT, "Michael \"Dog3\""
> wrote:

>Lou Decruss > news:s55g54d8cgkmt51ps0rph8pc2tmvtqquj3@
>4ax.com: in rec.food.cooking
>
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:20:25 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Heh, cyberCRACK fell off of her kitchen counter...
>>
>> Her kitchen ignorance could be overlooked if she seemed to have some
>> level of humility and a desire to learn something. Her claiming eggs
>> can't be cooked in a nuker is just another example of her arrogant
>> stupidity. I've been doing it since I got my first microwave almost
>> 30 years ago. Not for everything, but you can make an egg McMuffin
>> clone in about 3 minutes with 30 seconds of cleanup. All our kids
>> were very happy to learn the simple process when they went off to
>> school.
>
>What was your very first microwave?

Litton. Probably about a year or two after you got yours.

>I'll never forget mine. It was this
>huge box of a thing called the Amana Radarange (sp). I remember freaking
>out that it boiled noodles. It was really expensive too. Can't recall
>the price but it seems like it was several hundred dollars.

I think mine was a bit under 400.

>At the time I
>considered it a big ticket item. Now a hundred bucks get you one that is
>pretty decent and does the job.

They were around a long time before they got them to consumer price
levels. The first ones introduced were about 2,800, and it was Amana.
I'd say maybe 72?

Lou