sf wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:50:45 GMT, Hahabogus
> > wrote:
>
>
>> Steve Calvin > wrote in
>> :
>>
>> > Agreed. The first microwave (radarrange actually) hit the consumer
>> > market in '67 so you guys must have had one of the first ones!
>> >
>>
>> Actually GE was selling them in the 40's as an add-on accessory to a
>> regular electric kitchen stove.
>
>
> I think it was more of a concept kitchen thing in those
> days. I never heard of it as a useful kitchen tool until
> the very end of the '60s and didn't know anyone who owned
> one until the early '70s.
>
> sf

I was designing and selling kitchens in '71 and '72. Sometime in that
timeframe we got the first radaranges in stock to sell. I still remember
"wowing" at doing popcorn in paperbags, etc. And yes, the bosses wife
did manage to explode an egg in one. Talk about a mess!

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Steve

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