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
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!
@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
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
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. :)
"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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
@@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 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.
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.
@@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.
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 😀
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.
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)
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 TH-camrs.
@Andrew_koala 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.
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.
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. 😁
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.
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...
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.
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.
@@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
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
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
_"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.
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.)
@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
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.
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.
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.
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"
@@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....
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.
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.
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.
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!
Most "smart" appliances today take more time to set up and configure for each of their functions than a manual operation would. Which is precisely why most of the features on them are never used. This, by the way, also applies to most other tech. Hell, even smartphones these days are usually religated to the main use case of texting and calling someone, which most phones arguably did much better in the past. I, for one, have never seen anyone use their smartphones tripple camera to shoot a blockbuster movie, like the advertisement suggests. It's more like shitty photographs of computer screens because the screenshot feature was to difficult to use.
@@MichelLinschoten 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.
"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.
Just make sure they’re on separate circuits or else they’ll blow a fuse This post brought to you by the prewar house gang. May god have mercy on your soul if you forget to turn off the air conditioner on the other side of the house before reheating your lunch
@@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 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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
The failure to update firmware (or make it easy, convenient, or at all worthwhile from the user's perspective) on IoT devices, especially cheap ones without screens of their own, opened up a whole new world for DDoS attacks.
I think what they are referring to the ability to add captions to other people videos. I think that used to be a thing. So let’s say you spoke English and some other language, you would be able to add the captions for that language.
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.
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.
SHARP was a good manufacturer of microwaves. But what is more impressive is that your grandmother did not just throw up her hands and complain the machine was just too damn complicated to use with all those settings and buttons and whatnot. I'm willing to bet her influence made you the tech geek you are today; way to go Grandma!
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!
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.
Oh BTW, I think the "Play-Doh" option isn't for cooking it to eat, but when you have old, dried out Play-Doh that was left around so long that it becomes too hard to play with anymore. The microwave setting probably just helps soften it up again so you (or your kids/nephews/etc) can play with it again. Crazy that they even thought of that with their incredibly in-depth options.
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 🤔
many microwaves can be muted, though it's often not obvious how. if you google your microwave make and model, you'll usually be able to find a pdf of its manual which'll show how to silence the beeps. if you can't find the manual, there are lots of articles explaining several of the main ways microwaves have included a mute option. good luck!
We used to have a fridge with a power outage alarm which you could NOT turn off! If power outages would have been more frequent than once every 5 years I would have opened it to install an off switch.
Long ago my parents had a microwave where "sensor" literally meant a temperature probe you jabbed into the food. I was thus confused for years when I had all these microwaves that said sensor without having a metal probe. Play dough setting is for making homemade play dough, I imagine - normal cooked on a stovetop. Amazing, it has a bookmark function so you don't have to scroll through every recipe every time. Ironically, the clock and timer is widely used on my microwave, because the stove's timer is stupidly complicated/confusing. Not sure if I dislike flat panel membrane keypads worse (they always crack) or capacitive touch keypads (nobody includes a "cleaning the buttons" lock so you tempt fate and firmware every time you try to clean the schmoo)
Now there are temperature sensors that don't require stabbing the food, but obviously it can only measure surface temperature. Still quite useful for automation.
My mom had one of those she got as a marriage gift. From the 70's. I loved how it always confused visitors because it had an uncommon way to set the time. It just had 4 buttons to set the time. What the 4 buttons did, was increment the digit above them by one. So if you wanted 35 seconds, you would push the button below the 10's digit 3 times, then the seconds digit 5 times. It had that metal probe you could jam into food and it did a pretty good job of cooking big things like meat. You would just tell it how hot you wanted the food to get. I used it a ton for heating water/milk. It was super slow by modern standards for cooking. 5 minutes for a bag of popcorn. My mom threw it out when I was in college, it made me sad, I really wanted it for the retro vibes lol!
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.
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
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
I'm sure you are exaggerating here, but for those who don't know, the smarts are in the light hub in your house. At least, that's true for Philips Hue bulbs.
@@ve2mrxB It is not. Ask the People who bought Revolv Products. Or People in the EU where the Yeelights where no longe useable by App because of GDPR stopping Xiaomi. And i didn't even started on the Security Nightmares all this "Smart" Stuff can bring you.
@@scorpionc773 I am not saying those don't exist. I know how crap IoT stuff can be, but among them is good quality stuff that doesn't brick that way. I still believe that I need to research a product before dumping a load of cash in it and that you only get as much as you pay for. For this reason, I am very happy with my Philips Hue bulbs, but they are expensive. And they don't brick when Wi-Fi drops. Or Internet burps. That's because the smarts are in the hub, and it has a whole API that can be used without Internet. There is even a way to use them without the hub! Again, I researched them before I bought them. I am also not going to spend more on Nanoleaf stuff after my first "test" purchase. A single starter kit.
@MrJre4491 TBH, I didn't think at the time someone could design something so broken. Then I thought of all the deeply broken other IoT stuff. Capitalism stole pride in great products.
Right! In 1996, they weren't selling $50 microwave ovens. No manufacturer will load a cheap microwave up with expensive sensors. Business 101 lesson after the review of "nothing is free" and "universal income is code for 'everyone is equal in slavery'".
@ I'm willing to pay for a lot of things, but they simply don't offer anything good for the money. I have always been better off with 30+ year old devices that I paid a fraction of the cost for than something that's more expensive that said device was new yet has less features and lower build quality.
If they kept this exact microwave in production to this day, how much could it possibly cost? $100? The electronics have definitely gotten much, much cheaper by now and the engineering and other overhead paid for itself probably just a short time into production.
That's a lie! Your device that connects to the internet is tracking you to sell you more stuff later based on user history. Oh your unsecured wifi... The company that made your microwave or tv screams,"Even Better!" They are becoming less consumer costly in exchange for you giving them information. I would rather pay more.
I just want to say that this channel is amazing. It feels right out of the golden era of TH-cam. Other channels should strive to put in this much care and effort.
This is one of those channels where your passion for the subject matter is utterly contagious. Like, how do you manage to engage a general audience with a piece about microwaves?!?! Great work as always!
@@lokiunchained9468 You will never find one for sale on the internet or any thrift store because the ones that has it knows how rare they are with the computer display and they are built to last. I might sell mine which is the exact same model in dark gray if someone made me an offer I can't refuse plus extra for shipping.
i also own an antique one from my grandma and threw out my new one simply because its simply better and has some dope features than my new one could only dream off... for example it can perfectly cook afrozen pizza on point in only 10 minutes thanks to a clever use of microwaves ,the oven function and a heat sensor working together.... and the best thing about it is it will always stop on point, never burnt a pizza with it ever and if u dont get the pizza put after a while it even goes through a short keep warm cycle and will beep again... its the best piece of old tech that i own its super old but still works like a charm
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.
@@pavelperina7629 ? You can easily send 200mb of data? And what the hell would my microwave need 200 mb of data for? It turns on, it turns off! Next gagekt! The bag of popcorn says 2:45 for a 1200w microwave, definitely not 200mb, and I can read!
The microwave my parent's got when they got married(1980s Litton Meal-In-One, not sure the exact year) still works and they use it pretty often. It's massive, you could cook an entire turkey if you wanted. It actually came with a set of racks and dishes to cook various meats and casseroles in. There's also a stack of hardcover books detailing recipes and how to properly use all the features of the microwave. It was fully intended for you to cook literally everything in there. There is a massive 'Auto-cook' table next to the vertical numbers that lists most type of food along with a 2 digit number. When you punch in the Auto-Cook, select the number, it will then ask for the amount(or pounds for meat), and then what temperature you want it (rare through well done buttons). No. I've never cooked an entire turkey in there or much meat at all besides bacon and rarely defrosting hamburger in short notice. I used to use the auto-cook setting for 'frankfurters' as a kid since it seemed to cook them without bursting them every time. It doesn't do any sensing, but it has a big table of power levels and times for various foodstuffs.
We still use our 1979 Litton-Moffat's Auto-Cook chart by entering the code for soup etc. and answering its question of how many ounces. When you hit Start, it calculates required time and best power level, and even recalculates extra time if there's a line voltage drop when the neighbor fires up his arc welder and clothes dryer.
My parents bought a microwave exactly like this back in about 1985. They still have it and use it all the time. They're in their 70s. And they did cook a whole turkey in it. It was a pain to set up. Putting foil in places to slow cooking so it wouldn't dry out. But it turned out "fine". Not as good as an oven roasted, but was perfectly edible. When I brought my soon to be wife over to meet my parents, she saw that microwave and said " Jesus, you could cook a turkey in that monster." Lulz.
My parents bought that exact same microwave in the 80's! It's still in use today. I swear it's built like a truck and yes it's big enough for a 20lb turkey. The dang thing is huge.
Coincidentally so were we. We bought another 100 dollar countertop but Toshiba does make one for about 157 Canadian that will allow you to kill the beep
@@dogwalker666 if i had my way the microwave in my house would have a toggle switch for the beep (it has a kitchen timer function so disabling the beep completely would make that function useless)
@@dogwalker666 ours suddenly cut out the other day while heating up some soup. All I had to do was buy a $5 two pack of fuses, really simple to change as long as you have the torx security bits to open the thing up. Still have a spare fuse in case another microwave breaks apparently it's just one standard fuse that many models use.
I feel the exact same way about those old Pioneer car stereos with the dolphins. THAT is where single-din stereos peaked and I would *LOVE* for someone to make a modern one with that screen.
I just have to say THANK YOU for taking the time and properly captioning your videos. While I am a perfectly hearing individual, my household prefers to have the captions on everything all of the time. Having real, edited, not auto-generated crap captions is wonderful. Especially since those of us that turn the captions on get even MORE of the humor we love you for. Don't change!
I will admit that features aside, microwave longevity has taken a dive. We had a microwave from the early 90s up until 8 years ago when it kicked the bucket. We replaced it, and the replacement died in 2 years. We replaced that, and that died in 3 years. We are on another microwave right now that hasn't failed yet but we don't have much hope. We've been switching brands around, too, so it doesn't seem to be just one company. We have a relative with the same model microwave from the 90s that we had and it still works. My grandmother's microwave from the 80s still works! Why is planned obsolescence so commonplace? Are there no values anymore?
Pre 90s people were willing to pay more for a long life product. Now its all about can I get it for 5 bucks and that leads to cheap parts and products that break. Sadly if you make the best product in the world it will fail if your competition is able to make it 10% cheaper.
@@skiefyre123 The sad part is they don't just make the same product but 10% cheaper, they toss away a rarely feature, implement the rest of the features shoddily and then sell it for 10% less to the people who don't care. I've learned that _you get what you pay for_ is very relevant nowadays.
My buddy still has the microwave that was a wedding gift, back in the 90's. Since receiving that microwave, he's fathered 4 kids, the oldest of which is an adult, with children of her own. And that little microwave is still going. Why planned obsolescence? Because the masses tolerate it. In fact, the masses are programmed to beleive that shiny and new is always better than the old one. The idea is that it dies in less than 2 years, but the original owner dumps it after a year. Are there no values? Well... yes, there are values. It's just that the prevailing values are not YOUR values (or mine, for that matter). Clearly, you value a good, quality product. Modern society values the latest, new thing.
No kidding. My last microwave, a GE 1000W, lasted 20 years ( I got it in 1999). It finally died last year so I replaced it with another GE 1000W. After 9 months the new one literally started falling apart and eventually caught fire due to a malfunctioning magnetron. So yeah, the quality is definitely declined dramatically.
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
@JustAGuy A friend of mine works for a company who is currently making one of these. He has a MS in Computer Science with a specialization in algorithmic AI. The oven he's working on will indeed use "computer AI".
@@jasonfoster9911 Lots of buzz words. Some places AI has a real benefit, but that does not stop industry from attaching it to as many products as possible.
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 ...
@@KeiranR 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
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
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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.
used to have that one and it was the best microwave I had but it was so heavy and took up so much space.
My grandma had one!
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. :)
"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.
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
seriously. I started looking for one online
@@SweetFLGuy1 I'm sure the microwave collecting community is huge - good luck!
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.
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
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.
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 TH-cam 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
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.
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.
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
"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.
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
"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.
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.
"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
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 😀
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.
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 TH-camrs.
I"m not sure if Alec can make something with Low Effort
@Andrew_koala 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.
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.
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. 😁
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
"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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You had me at "you can turn the sound off completely"
I'm sold.
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
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*
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!
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...
I know you spent ten minutes going through why this microwave is technically superior, but you had me at the tiny chef animation
🤓
_"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.)
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 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.
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?
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
There are eight thousand people here talking about microwaves. This is how TH-cam 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?
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.
"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.
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.
"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 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.
_"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
"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.
"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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
"There 's a firmware update for my lightbulbs, better get on that!" That is the epitome of technology being too advanced.
Not 'too advanced' - shit. It's advanced, overcomplicated shit technology that can easily be replaced by less or equally advanced non-shit technology.
Would you rather your smart lightbulbs be running deprecated Linux kernels, because a shitload of the Internet of Shit does run on exactly that.
The failure to update firmware (or make it easy, convenient, or at all worthwhile from the user's perspective) on IoT devices, especially cheap ones without screens of their own, opened up a whole new world for DDoS attacks.
@@TheRanblingjohnny I'd rather just not have light bulbs with ANY Linux distro on them. Its a fucking light bulb
@@nordoceltic7225 That's great and all but what enjoyment does having multi colored lights in your home bring youM
[a delightful melody]
Your captions are the best. As someone who is hard of hearing, thank you.
[Another bitter comment pointing that this is why youtube shouldn't've removed CC]
@@sponge1234ify I don’t understand, I literally watched this video with captions on?
@@sponge1234ify yeah, I'm literally looking right at the cc button
I think what they are referring to the ability to add captions to other people videos. I think that used to be a thing. So let’s say you spoke English and some other language, you would be able to add the captions for that language.
@@chompyzilla ah, I wasn't aware that was taken away! That's a shame.
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 recognized the microwave immediately. My grandmother had that exact one. A lot of nostalgia for me with that "done" sound.
and you know it a overprice mircowave than after broken would throw away.. since it is cheaper to get new one...
SHARP was a good manufacturer of microwaves. But what is more impressive is that your grandmother did not just throw up her hands and complain the machine was just too damn complicated to use with all those settings and buttons and whatnot. I'm willing to bet her influence made you the tech geek you are today; way to go Grandma!
Ok
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!
“This microwave is better than yours”
But that is the microwave I have...
Yeah but is it as well kept?
That's awesome though. I wish I had this microwave lol
but this one is youtube famous and trending, it even has a unique scar like harry potter (the rust)
That's amazing! I wish I could get my hands on one
same...but mine finally died a year or so back :(
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
Oh BTW, I think the "Play-Doh" option isn't for cooking it to eat, but when you have old, dried out Play-Doh that was left around so long that it becomes too hard to play with anymore. The microwave setting probably just helps soften it up again so you (or your kids/nephews/etc) can play with it again. Crazy that they even thought of that with their incredibly in-depth options.
Pretty sure its to bake the play doh. You can put it in the oven and it comes out hard like pottery.
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 🤔
But can it play doom?
Dominion voting machines can. Machines so flawed and programable as to be absolutely useless
Yes
@@nicosmind3 it's like they shouldn't even be used for voting... Imagine that.
@@nicosmind3 After we're all done and thru with Dominion, Doom (the game) may be all that they will be good for.
With soda or beer?
You know what, this had a lot of amazing functions but I'd honestly buy it _exclusively_ for the silent mode option
many microwaves can be muted, though it's often not obvious how. if you google your microwave make and model, you'll usually be able to find a pdf of its manual which'll show how to silence the beeps. if you can't find the manual, there are lots of articles explaining several of the main ways microwaves have included a mute option. good luck!
I opened mine and cut the wires connecting the speaker.
(When it was done it used to beep incessantly and just wouldn't stop. It had it coming.)
We used to have a fridge with a power outage alarm which you could NOT turn off!
If power outages would have been more frequent than once every 5 years I would have opened it to install an off switch.
@@user-jk2zm7uq5s you lobotomised it
Most microwaves have the ability to toggle beep on/off by holding down the "2" button for several seconds.
Remember that odd kid that wheeled his grandparents microwave into show and tell??
Yeah I’m subscribed too
“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 😂
Long ago my parents had a microwave where "sensor" literally meant a temperature probe you jabbed into the food. I was thus confused for years when I had all these microwaves that said sensor without having a metal probe.
Play dough setting is for making homemade play dough, I imagine - normal cooked on a stovetop.
Amazing, it has a bookmark function so you don't have to scroll through every recipe every time.
Ironically, the clock and timer is widely used on my microwave, because the stove's timer is stupidly complicated/confusing.
Not sure if I dislike flat panel membrane keypads worse (they always crack) or capacitive touch keypads (nobody includes a "cleaning the buttons" lock so you tempt fate and firmware every time you try to clean the schmoo)
Yeah I remember our family having a sensor probe microwave when I was a kid.
Adding a bookmark is actually pretty smart.
@Opecuted but but.. You now have to reset the clock?
Now there are temperature sensors that don't require stabbing the food, but obviously it can only measure surface temperature.
Still quite useful for automation.
My mom had one of those she got as a marriage gift. From the 70's. I loved how it always confused visitors because it had an uncommon way to set the time. It just had 4 buttons to set the time. What the 4 buttons did, was increment the digit above them by one. So if you wanted 35 seconds, you would push the button below the 10's digit 3 times, then the seconds digit 5 times. It had that metal probe you could jam into food and it did a pretty good job of cooking big things like meat. You would just tell it how hot you wanted the food to get. I used it a ton for heating water/milk. It was super slow by modern standards for cooking. 5 minutes for a bag of popcorn. My mom threw it out when I was in college, it made me sad, I really wanted it for the retro vibes lol!
One Game Boy engineer switched to Sharp home appliance division.... Perhaps there is a key combination to access tetris...
It's 3am, I work at 7, and I'm watching a 15 minute video on a microwave that's not even manufactured anymore. Oh internet, you are a wonderful thing
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.
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
"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
"The lightbulb server is going to be down for a few hours, so I'm just going to have to read by candlelight for a bit."
I'm sure you are exaggerating here, but for those who don't know, the smarts are in the light hub in your house. At least, that's true for Philips Hue bulbs.
@@ve2mrxB It is not. Ask the People who bought Revolv Products. Or People in the EU where the Yeelights where no longe useable by App because of GDPR stopping Xiaomi. And i didn't even started on the Security Nightmares all this "Smart" Stuff can bring you.
@@scorpionc773 I am not saying those don't exist. I know how crap IoT stuff can be, but among them is good quality stuff that doesn't brick that way.
I still believe that I need to research a product before dumping a load of cash in it and that you only get as much as you pay for. For this reason, I am very happy with my Philips Hue bulbs, but they are expensive. And they don't brick when Wi-Fi drops. Or Internet burps. That's because the smarts are in the hub, and it has a whole API that can be used without Internet. There is even a way to use them without the hub!
Again, I researched them before I bought them. I am also not going to spend more on Nanoleaf stuff after my first "test" purchase. A single starter kit.
Ooops, your light bulb has been encrypted...
@MrJre4491 TBH, I didn't think at the time someone could design something so broken. Then I thought of all the deeply broken other IoT stuff.
Capitalism stole pride in great products.
Also - this entire video is amazingly passive-aggressive and I am here for it.
I thought the title was "The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than You" and I was like: "fair".
It's certainly a better cook than me
"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.
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This video can be taken as a proof that machines don't get smarter, they get cheaper.
Right! In 1996, they weren't selling $50 microwave ovens. No manufacturer will load a cheap microwave up with expensive sensors. Business 101 lesson after the review of "nothing is free" and "universal income is code for 'everyone is equal in slavery'".
@ I'm willing to pay for a lot of things, but they simply don't offer anything good for the money. I have always been better off with 30+ year old devices that I paid a fraction of the cost for than something that's more expensive that said device was new yet has less features and lower build quality.
If they kept this exact microwave in production to this day, how much could it possibly cost? $100? The electronics have definitely gotten much, much cheaper by now and the engineering and other overhead paid for itself probably just a short time into production.
That's a lie! Your device that connects to the internet is tracking you to sell you more stuff later based on user history. Oh your unsecured wifi... The company that made your microwave or tv screams,"Even Better!"
They are becoming less consumer costly in exchange for you giving them information. I would rather pay more.
They are not getting cheaper. They are getting cheaper to make.
I just want to say that this channel is amazing. It feels right out of the golden era of TH-cam.
Other channels should strive to put in this much care and effort.
This is one of those channels where your passion for the subject matter is utterly contagious. Like, how do you manage to engage a general audience with a piece about microwaves?!?!
Great work as always!
I never thought someone would flex their microwave on me, but here we are.
A microwave that his grandma bought 23 years ago. I'm gonna look for one on ebay and thrift stores.
Not just flex, but absolutely demolish my own microwave. It's just sadly beepin in it's one singular tone right now.
@@lokiunchained9468 You will never find one for sale on the internet or any thrift store because the ones that has it knows how rare they are with the computer display and they are built to last. I might sell mine which is the exact same model in dark gray if someone made me an offer I can't refuse plus extra for shipping.
i also own an antique one from my grandma and threw out my new one simply because its simply better and has some dope features than my new one could only dream off... for example it can perfectly cook afrozen pizza on point in only 10 minutes thanks to a clever use of microwaves ,the oven function and a heat sensor working together.... and the best thing about it is it will always stop on point, never burnt a pizza with it ever and if u dont get the pizza put after a while it even goes through a short keep warm cycle and will beep again... its the best piece of old tech that i own its super old but still works like a charm
I found the coolest looking microwave from the 70s, but passed because I had read, many years ago, that old ones leaked radiation.
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.
I hate how the word "smart" in this low-effort, minimalist era literally just means it connects to some horrid, nebulous cloud network via wifi.
And generally does two uses things:
Collecting data
Sending notifications
It's so that can save some "innovations" for next year so 9t can make your old phone outdated.
2020: It's nearly impossible to send 200MB file from one phone to another phone or computer conveniently.
@@pavelperina7629 ? You can easily send 200mb of data? And what the hell would my microwave need 200 mb of data for? It turns on, it turns off! Next gagekt! The bag of popcorn says 2:45 for a 1200w microwave, definitely not 200mb, and I can read!
@@pavelperina7629 Air Droid?
The microwave my parent's got when they got married(1980s Litton Meal-In-One, not sure the exact year) still works and they use it pretty often. It's massive, you could cook an entire turkey if you wanted. It actually came with a set of racks and dishes to cook various meats and casseroles in. There's also a stack of hardcover books detailing recipes and how to properly use all the features of the microwave. It was fully intended for you to cook literally everything in there. There is a massive 'Auto-cook' table next to the vertical numbers that lists most type of food along with a 2 digit number. When you punch in the Auto-Cook, select the number, it will then ask for the amount(or pounds for meat), and then what temperature you want it (rare through well done buttons).
No. I've never cooked an entire turkey in there or much meat at all besides bacon and rarely defrosting hamburger in short notice. I used to use the auto-cook setting for 'frankfurters' as a kid since it seemed to cook them without bursting them every time. It doesn't do any sensing, but it has a big table of power levels and times for various foodstuffs.
We still use our 1979 Litton-Moffat's Auto-Cook chart by entering the code for soup etc. and answering its question of how many ounces. When you hit Start, it calculates required time and best power level, and even recalculates extra time if there's a line voltage drop when the neighbor fires up his arc welder and clothes dryer.
I straight up wouldn’t trust a microwaved whole turkey.
My parents bought a microwave exactly like this back in about 1985. They still have it and use it all the time. They're in their 70s.
And they did cook a whole turkey in it. It was a pain to set up. Putting foil in places to slow cooking so it wouldn't dry out. But it turned out "fine". Not as good as an oven roasted, but was perfectly edible.
When I brought my soon to be wife over to meet my parents, she saw that microwave and said " Jesus, you could cook a turkey in that monster." Lulz.
My parents bought that exact same microwave in the 80's! It's still in use today. I swear it's built like a truck and yes it's big enough for a 20lb turkey. The dang thing is huge.
Oh hell yeah, frankfurters
Ah yes, a thorough examination of the Quirks and Features of a 90's Sharp Carousel. Unironically can't wait for that one
Im so glad there’s a videos so well made about a topic so niche and strange, like microwaves.
I'm actually microwave shopping at the moment. I'd totally buy a microwave like this one...
Coincidentally so were we. We bought another 100 dollar countertop but Toshiba does make one for about 157 Canadian that will allow you to kill the beep
Mine broke at the weekend, when I checked the prices have shot up on microwaves, so I just repaired the old one.
@@wendyokoopa7048 it's easy to disable the pizo on any microwave.
@@dogwalker666 if i had my way the microwave in my house would have a toggle switch for the beep (it has a kitchen timer function so disabling the beep completely would make that function useless)
@@dogwalker666 ours suddenly cut out the other day while heating up some soup. All I had to do was buy a $5 two pack of fuses, really simple to change as long as you have the torx security bits to open the thing up. Still have a spare fuse in case another microwave breaks apparently it's just one standard fuse that many models use.
"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 can't believe no one is appreciating the amount of effort it must have taken to keep resetting the clock to 4:20. I love it
but to not put in the effort to set it to 69 o'clock
@@Randomonity haahahahaha
@@Randomonity I'm gonna have to try that myself
@@Randomonity Mine will go up to 15 minutes and 99 seconds, but unused times are erased after 10 minutes sitting idle. Oh, well. :/
I feel the exact same way about those old Pioneer car stereos with the dolphins. THAT is where single-din stereos peaked and I would *LOVE* for someone to make a modern one with that screen.
I now want this microwave and my heart is sad that I cannot get one.
*cries in microwave jingle*
@Charisma Girl One day... One day.... *stares off into the microwave oblivion*
Me too 🥺
the magic of eBay
@@Preinstallable dont see any on ebay
Just move into a 1997 house, most have older microwaves like mine did
I just have to say THANK YOU for taking the time and properly captioning your videos. While I am a perfectly hearing individual, my household prefers to have the captions on everything all of the time. Having real, edited, not auto-generated crap captions is wonderful. Especially since those of us that turn the captions on get even MORE of the humor we love you for. Don't change!
I will admit that features aside, microwave longevity has taken a dive. We had a microwave from the early 90s up until 8 years ago when it kicked the bucket. We replaced it, and the replacement died in 2 years. We replaced that, and that died in 3 years. We are on another microwave right now that hasn't failed yet but we don't have much hope. We've been switching brands around, too, so it doesn't seem to be just one company. We have a relative with the same model microwave from the 90s that we had and it still works. My grandmother's microwave from the 80s still works! Why is planned obsolescence so commonplace? Are there no values anymore?
Pre 90s people were willing to pay more for a long life product. Now its all about can I get it for 5 bucks and that leads to cheap parts and products that break. Sadly if you make the best product in the world it will fail if your competition is able to make it 10% cheaper.
@@skiefyre123
The sad part is they don't just make the same product but 10% cheaper, they toss away a rarely feature, implement the rest of the features shoddily and then sell it for 10% less to the people who don't care.
I've learned that _you get what you pay for_ is very relevant nowadays.
My buddy still has the microwave that was a wedding gift, back in the 90's. Since receiving that microwave, he's fathered 4 kids, the oldest of which is an adult, with children of her own. And that little microwave is still going.
Why planned obsolescence? Because the masses tolerate it. In fact, the masses are programmed to beleive that shiny and new is always better than the old one. The idea is that it dies in less than 2 years, but the original owner dumps it after a year.
Are there no values? Well... yes, there are values. It's just that the prevailing values are not YOUR values (or mine, for that matter). Clearly, you value a good, quality product. Modern society values the latest, new thing.
No kidding. My last microwave, a GE 1000W, lasted 20 years ( I got it in 1999). It finally died last year so I replaced it with another GE 1000W. After 9 months the new one literally started falling apart and eventually caught fire due to a malfunctioning magnetron. So yeah, the quality is definitely declined dramatically.
Everything like this now. Even at mid range of market too. Everything is junk now.
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
They now sell “smart ovens” which are basically a toaster oven with this library of cooking times... for $600. 😱
Smart R&D teams learned that calling something "smart" makes people think it has computer AI in it or something.
Had one. It SUCKED!
JustAGuy only morons
@JustAGuy A friend of mine works for a company who is currently making one of these. He has a MS in Computer Science with a specialization in algorithmic AI. The oven he's working on will indeed use "computer AI".
@@jasonfoster9911 Lots of buzz words. Some places AI has a real benefit, but that does not stop industry from attaching it to as many products as possible.