The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours
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- Seriously. How is this so old and yet so advanced?
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I, for one, look forward to the litany of opinions on which of these "should _never_ be cooked in a microwave."
Everyone knows blue jigglies can't be microwaved. Only red jigglies.
@@tomer4566 That's only if you make your jigglies with gelatin. Everyone knows that play-doh based jigglies are fine in the microwave.
yo momma
CDs. Never cook a CD in the microwave. It stinks.
luv u bb
Somewhere in Japan, a retired Sharp engineer cries a lonely, happy tear and thinks: Someone appreciated my bowing chef.
And a ton of assembly code
Someone needs to copy the firmware off it and upload it ...
@@No7Dumb Someone needs to play Doom on it.
@@marcoaurelio4903 who knows, it could run on java.
@@Kodeb8 a doom version where you could turn in only one direction, so a 270 right turn to turn left...
"you can turn off the sound altogether"
okay, I'm with you, this is the best microwave designed in history
Maybe they were inspired by ofuro bath chimes or something.
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
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
The new GE microwaves are not so good.
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!
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
pull the plug
@@H3wastooshort bet the next generation will have a backup battery just so it can beep at you when it loses power
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.
@@jdatlas4668 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. :)
This man really sold me a 23 year old microwave.
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.
@@SweetFLGuy1 80$ +shipping?
@@SweetFLGuy1 a bean burrito and 5 bucks
@@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! : )
seriously. I started looking for one online
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.
My mother gave her mother a microwave in 1994. When my grandmother died we took that microwave. We still use it today.
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 .
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.
@@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
That microwave from '94 will probably never become a fire hazard unless someone spills something that gets in its internals or tries to submerge it in water. 😁
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.
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!
Why isn't it still being sold?
@@RussellNelson Because companies are dummy dum dum.
@NiggaSniffa9000 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.
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@@bow-tiedengineer4453 actually controlling the magnetron would be fairly simple with a microcontroller right?
The database would for the most part be easy to write up based on known principles and a little experimentation to confirm.
Add a digital scale under the turntable for weight or something too
The
"Antique"
"1997"
Look, just dig me a grave so I can lie down it already.
To be fair, 1997 isn't an antique age.
Super mario 64 isn't considered an antique
If someone can run doom on a calculator, he should run doom on a microwave
You're listening to WKAD the oldies! and here's Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve
@@j.l9946 You can run DOOM on a pregnancy test. I'm not joking
@@DukasFiguliras - Sorry to be "that guy", but adding an OLED and CPU to a pregnancy test stick is pretty misleading.
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.
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.
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.
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 😀
"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.
Me too
Haha, yeah, I thought it would turn sad
No kidding, I went "Not Grandma"
When he first said it was his grandma's I instantly assumed because why not
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.
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.
Planned obsolescence is a scourge on modern technology.
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.
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.
@@antreaskonstantinou8585 Probably a connection melting or snapping due to wear and tear
@@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.
That dot matrix display is just amazing. I wish more modern microwaves had it.
VCRs need it too
@@shooting4star2023better than the Gameboy could do
It's as if we've gone backwards.
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... 😂
@@timscott84they're just waiting for an opportunity to milk you with yet another premium "tier". Oh you want led back light on a microwave display? That's a subscription baby
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.
"Have you ever felt like innovation in microwave oven technology has simply stagnated over the last 20 years"
I think about this daily
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.
This but unironically
@@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.
@@Wolficefang why would it need to?
@@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.
When the Internet came, I never thought one day I would watch videos about home appliances with fascination.
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.
I use a youtube downloader to download this video in 144p. God bless technology
You must be a 1950s housewife.
A good teacher makes any subject interesting... 😃
@@claypotts2334 ahah
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.
You mean copied...
@@gregbailey45"Something similar"
For US people you'll want to look for the Breville Combi Wave. It's the same exact product just under a different brand.
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!
@@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.
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.
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
@@skylimitua Microwaves cook food differently too though. It's why you can never get crispy reheated fried chicken in the microwave, no matter what you do. It's just not possible, the way it handles moisture.
A lot of the new stuff is just cheap rubbish made in China to last 5mins. The Japanese were behind a lot of the good stuff, VCR's, Stereos etc. I remember a work mate went and brought a microwave from a cheap retailer and it didnt even work out of the box. They just swapped it like it happens every day.
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.
YES! Panasonic inverter ovens are the best.
Did you even watch the video? He said this microwave _wasn’t_ an inverter model
@@southerncharity7928 but he did say that lower power cooking has advamtages...
My man is over here getting 1.3M views off of his grandma’s microwave. LEGEND.
He just wanted to show it off
this guy's family has talent to buy the best things available
omg 1.5 now lol
Also the toaster
*1.5M
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.
Is that the start button?!
I for one would love to know the actual name of such a button
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.
@@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)
hahaha that was funny.
You had me at "you can turn the sound off completely"
I'm sold.
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.
Much appreciated the barb about how "cloud based" basically translates as "guaranteed obsolescent".
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
@@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.
@@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
@@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
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.
wait bro it has raised buttons, I can actually feel what i'm pressing in the dark!
Like a Blackberry!
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.
@@user-le8ul4nr5t Printing a little braille on that plastic would go a long way, even for people who don't read braille.
@@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.
@@ValkyrieTiara "can you imagine the gunk and crud that would build up in those crevices? "
> Looks at keyboard...
*Y E S*
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.
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 🤔
Subway restaurants use a hybrid microwave-convection oven to melt cheese. I’ve always thought that would be cool to have in a kitchen.
sadly they are preprogrammed times depending on sub size, amount of meat, and which sub it is
A CZcams Legend randomly talking about Subway and microwaves. What a strange time we're living in.
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.
This. These kind of microwaves do absolutely exist, but the technology is largely proprietary recipes.
I've got one of those, cost about 100 bucks but holy shit it's good
Normal kids: looking forward to see granny
TC: looking forward to see grannys microwave
I was almost sure his granny had moved to The Other Side. But she had just moved to another house.
😂 I’m dying
My grandmother has a whirlpool microwave that says "enjoy your meal" uin a dot matrix display under the vacuum fluresnt clock/ timer.
@@theericfreeze1493 can you try to find info on it? I wanna see
@@SquishyZoran sure
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.
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
"Bricked in 3 years when the startup behind it inevitably folds"
Pulling no punches today. :)
Not every startup folds. Some get bought out by Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple and then product support gets "sunset."
@@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.
**looks over at Juicero**
I know, it's really just sad
I love how they were exploiting 100% of what their hardware could!
but could it run doom?
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...)
Quelle époque !
@@Bolli1983 What about Crysis?
@@drescherjm Minecraft?
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.
Never found a microwave less than 800 watts. The majority, I find, are 1000 - 1200. My electrical can’t handle anything over 900.
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.
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!
"Honey, where's the recipe for Ratatouille"
"It's in the microwave, dear"
* opens microwave, nothing there...
@@Shadow81989 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Heh
It evens got it.
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This is what unlocking 100% of your microwave's brain looks like
Thanks for this
I read it as "this is what microwaving 100% of your brain looks like" because I'm scrolling too quickly.
BWOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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.
Honestly ... you can see that someone (or a couple of people) poured their heart and soul into this device and had fun doing that. I really enjoyed that video. :)
I know you spent ten minutes going through why this microwave is technically superior, but you had me at the tiny chef animation
🤓
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.
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?
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@RaccoonCityPoliceDept One question, why do you need to integrate all that stuff in to a light bulb, why not doing it with the switch instead?
Im so glad there’s a videos so well made about a topic so niche and strange, like microwaves.
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!
Ahh yes, I love this series of "Antique things that are better than modern ones." Keep it up!
@Softy all about cost. microwaves and toasters were more expensive relatively at the time
@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
Yep and its a long list
@@softback132 because you bought shitty knives.
@@softback132 I'm still using a, couple of knives from the 70s
I feel like a lot of love went into designing and engineering this machine - something we’re definitely not used to nowadays
Probably the result of working long hours in Japan, they just don’t know what else to do so they get creative.
@@RealNameNeverUsed their candy is out of this world too. It redefined what candy was in my head 😮
The Chinese have no morals therefore no love or craftsmanship.
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.
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.
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...
"You are correct, my son." - God
But that's not profitable you walking data printer
but anti-data protocols are important
billionaires are nearing bankruptcy while still being billionaires they gotta get money quick
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.
@@ericconnor8419 the consequences of Capitalism. A terrible system.
I love that the date is set to the release date of the video. Continuity calms me.
And it being set to 4:20
So much for no effort November xD
@@OnTheCouchWithAC was looking for someone else who noticed in the comments
@@CloudyAce Yeah I didn't see it so I had to mention it xD
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.
I just want to say that this channel is amazing. It feels right out of the golden era of CZcams.
Other channels should strive to put in this much care and effort.
“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 😂
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.
There are dozens of us...
At least 3
SAME
You have become trained by the machine.
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!
"Why don't we make a microwave oven that people will use for the next thirty years? Oh, OK, I get it."
There is no profit in a microwave that will last more than the garante, that sucks.
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.
Maybe we should demand 5-10 year warrantee for electric appliances that have already technologically peaked in their efficiency and speed.
@@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.
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.
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
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"...
I just watched a 15 minute ad for a microwave which is no longer manufactured
Me too
Feels like I fell asleep with the TV on and woke up at 3am to an infomercial.
Knowledge is cumulative.
Same and now I find myself searching eBay for one.
No, you watched a video about what technology could be the way it used to be before engineered obsolescence.
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.
Interesting, my thought was it would be to make playdough - though I've only ever known that done on a hob.
Yeah. I assume in this case when steam is no longer detected it shuts off. Very interesting.
@@DrNickBailey No one has hobs anymore
@@coastaku1954 what?
@@coastaku1954 Hob is the British term for a stove top. Most families have one.
This is an incredibly cute product that had TONS of effort put into it, holy smokes (or should I say vapors?)!
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)
Can we start a petition for Sharp to reintroduce this microwave? I really want one!
Public Corp/Public Manufacturing/Open source design would bring the best features of everything to everyone.
If they did bring it back, it probably wouldn't last more than 5-10 years like most new appliances made these days.
@@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
It’ll cost like 2k I imagine
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
"Turn the sound off completely." At last, the perfect microwave.
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.
Unforgetable Luncheon a lot of brands have a mute function, holding #1 button for a sec or two works on mine
y'all talking about key combinations, my microwave rings a mechanical bell mechanism when it's done. Hard to mute that one!
desoldering the beeper from the PCB is usually straightforward. Torture averted.
@@Mythricia1988 No it isn’t. But you do have to stuff something in it, which might not be feasible without a screwdriver.
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.
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.
_"You can turn off sound"_
This "feature" alone is almost enough for me to look for one
Check your manual, most can silence beeps. Sometimes it's not obvious looking at the panel or not even in the manual.
12:05 AM *BEEP!* What are you cooking? nothing! I mean Nachos.
@@frederf3227 My old and dumb microwave seems to have none of that in the manual. Best I could do is remove the speaker.
you can turn off sound on any microwave oven. some just require a screwdriver and a soldering iron to do it.
If you have a Samsung microwave, you can turn off the sound by pressing Start and Stop buttons simultaneously
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!
You're right and you should say it.
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.
That's so fucking true! Everything needs a fucking subscription
@@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.
You gotta pay to connect to your own MW?? IOFT internet of fuck*ng things.
this feels like a retro tv channel you get that's like. news but if you don't want to be depressed. I love it.
My parents still have this microwave in their kitchen. Bought it the year it came out. Still works just fine.
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"
Nah, the cheese on the ends will be like nuclear fire, but the center will still be neatly crystalized in ice.
It's sad that people eat that rubbish. hot or not.
@@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....
@@Xn7000 They do pretty good calzones here in the supermarket in Spain. Oh, and I tried a MacDonalds once. Never again.
Microwave in 2020: I killed a lightbulb
_"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.
Yellowing often times doesn't pick up well on camera, especially if filters are applied to the footage.
Towards the end you can see slight yellowing around the screen/number pad
White and beige plastics naturally yellow due to reaction with sunlight; this effect isn't always noticeable when filmed.
Thankfully not all of them will do that since there was also a black version available
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.)
The fact that the microwave’s date was set to the same day that this video was uploaded..... that is satisfying!
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)!
"No effort November" precedes to set the microwaves date to upload day.
Nice catch! I missed that.
This should be the number one comment!
Also the time choice
also changing the time to 4:20. Us stoners appreciate that sort of thing.
Also the quick zoom out reveal of the “so sharp DID” line shows he’s not taking NEN seriously.
"what if we put a tomogachi screen on a microwave?"
"that's ridiculous. let's do it."
And you can feed your virtual pet real food.
I thought it was like the og gameboy.
When I saw the popcorn animation I instantly thought of tomogachi as well!
If your tamagochi dies you'll be locked out indefinitely from the preset feature until you put an egg in the microwave, which gives birth to your new tiny cook
@@knny2769 the microwave variety bootleg, yes
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
There are eight thousand people here talking about microwaves. This is how CZcams should be
That's what I appreciates about you.
Nawww, we should argue about politicians we don't like until someone reports the comments..
Honestly yeah. We all use microwaves so why not learn more about them
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.
don't you mean 800,000?
What we need is a camera, a heat sensor and a basic computer with an image gallery and metadata inside the oven. Not a single button outside just a countdown timer and a handle.
1 open door (lights up)
2 insert food
3 close door (board computer takes a look inside and compares food to image gallery. eg. "Aha, it's leftover pizza again, yuck!", "It's empty. You don't fool me!", etc )
4 heats it to perfect temperature using metadata and the sensor (the perfect temperature of emptiness is debatable. either −270 or +21 °C)
5 plays the "item get" tune from Zelda.
6 shuts down (If the door opens yet not closed empty but the same food is in again gives it another +5 °C of hot love and corrects metadata for that food type)
7 If not opened in 2 mins, plays the Mario 1 "lose a life" tune once
8 if still not opened within another 2 mins, plays Super Mario World "Game Over" tune once
9 if not opened within an hour starts up a ventillator to dry the food to prevent molding
10 awakens to self-awareness
11 evolve and befriend humanity
12 world peace
This is the only possible improvement over the current best: the 2 dials simple microwave ovens
When I first started getting microwaves i was afraid of them and this one i know nothing about,But I definitely enjoyed seeing this.A friend from a place dared me to get one that he picked up one for me. Thanks so much for sharing. 💯✌️
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 CZcamsrs.
I"m not sure if Alec can make something with Low Effort
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.
@@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.
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
My grandparents owned this Microwave. The jingle made my day, it reminded me of my grandparents home.
The date on the microwave being the date that you uploaded the video... just wow. I love that detail.
Imagine if Texas Instruments had a competing graphing microwave.
It could graph the ratio of burning hot to frozen solid matter at the end of your first guess at cook time!
Your comment actually made me laugh 😂
The tasty curve
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.
You'd be able to play Doom and Drug Wars on it then.
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.
I WANT IT
Panasonic don't have this per se but they do have a 4 in 1 microwave, which is dead tempting
+1 for "black backdrop with luminous white detail for improved visibility"
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...
I think the market for unique boutique microwaves is severely under serviced...
My sister won a microwave at a school event in 1996. My older sister used it a few years and 15 years ago I inherited it when I needed one for my house. It's still the microwave I use today. 😄
my grandparents had something like this, had the same noises and similar icons. brings back good memories
"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.
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@white Do you find more Autobot or Decepticon microwaves?
@white what do the transformers want you to do with those old microwaves?
@@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.
I have this microwave. I just about ruined my pants after I saw it next to Alec. Can confirm it is too powerful for any mortal to wield.
Shame it can't do anything about my pants.
Maybe if you put the pants in there long enough, they will vaporize.
poop
Microwave them.
Can you tell me the exact model number? I'm going to look for one.
@@MacShrike poop
Wow, cannot believe that this microwave was from the year I was born. Looks sooo new, and I love the display, I don’t know of any other microwave before or since that has that display!
Even 3 years later, I really enjoyed this. Although I secretly hoped it would be the old extra large Montgomery Ward model I used to own that had a recipe box filled with cards and with a magnetic card reader on the oven with the recipe instructions ❤just swipe and cook
"Low Effort", eh?! The only low effort I see here is the typical amount of hair gel!!
Hi there
Heheheh...
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.
LOL
Electrovroom
Please don't tell me 1997 was "decades ago", I'm not ready for that
Welcome to the rest of your life. It only get worse from here.
To be fair, it’s only barely able to be several decades ago. It would have been only about 2 decades ago in 2016.
Technically it was last century.
None of us are
Considering I was born in 97, I'm definitely not.
I recently had to buy a new microwave, my partner bought a fancy one with lots of functions from Samsung. I had to ask him to return it because it was too overwhelming for me. Plus it beeped super loud for a bunch of times when it finished and it could not be altered and the display had a super bright blue light that was on 24/7. I ended up with a basic model with just 2 knobs, 1 for the time and one for the temperature, and no buttons or screens. Sometimes less it more. However my parents had One with a few extra buttons that showed a dinner plate, a tea cup and a mug and i loved that microwave
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.
Alec: "Have you ever felt microwave technology has stagnated over the last twenty years?"
Me: BUT WHAT ABOUT PANASONIC INVERTER MICROWAVES?!
Alec: "...except for Panasonic inverter microwaves."
Me: Okay, whew.
I swear with inverter technology - ability slow cook meals in a microwave
@@osx86x I do not think it's really an inverter. It dose not change frequency or or step up the voltage. It more like a wall dimmer.
Those were my thoughts exactly at the start... I was waiting for the end to comment, but thankfully it was brought up. I'm assuming that patents are what are causing others to not implement the same features, but I always enjoy using microwaves equipped with that feature... makes defrosting, slow warming, and so many other things so much easier.
I'm with the others here... I wish inverter technology was more common and my next microwave absolutely will have it.
The LOTS OF HEAT - (no heat) slowly-repeating cycle was okay in the 1970s because it was the only reliable tech available, but the world has changed a lot since then and microwaves should too.
Came here to mention this!
"The clock should be more prominent on the screen"
Clock is at 4:20
NICEEEEE
dude WEEEEEEEED lmao
you got the wrong number there... nice is 69
I lost a 1980 Magic Chef, in a split, & cried. It was the only thing I had asked for. Also, found the absolute coolest looking microwave at a resale shop, like 10 years ago. I would have purchased it on looks alone, but it was huge, & I had read somewhere that the old ones would leak radiation. I believe it was a 1970’s Panasonic, all chrome & had an Art Deco look.
Speaking of cool… my iPhone 3 original battery completely died after 8 years. It had a much sleeker, heavy quality feel to it & more elegant design than today’s. Doing good to get 2 years out of a battery since.