Cheap/small microwaves in the early-1990s did not have a turntable. I remember heating a frozen entree in Grandmother's microwave. Part of it became so hot that the plastic tray melted, while another part was still frozen!
My friend had a microwave just like this. He only knew the dial timer... Until he came to my house where we'z was fancy and had digital. He made popcorn and asked how to do 3 minutes. Press 3 0 0 start. He pushed 3 0 0 0 start and we went to outside to play. We came back in about 20 minutes later and the microwave looked like a military smoke bomb! It took weeks to get the smell out of our house. (Oh and my mom and dad were thrilled lol)
Take the plastic parts off, soak it in hydrogen peroxide covered in cling wrap. Set it in the sun or it won't work. That will remove yellowing on plastic in 5-7 days :)
Old appliances are the best, they just last so much longer. My grandma recently had to replace their old microwave and stove and I’m so glad I got some photos of them.
In my experience microwaves are among the most Hardy things that you can use when it comes to appliances. Every microwave I've ever owned at least lasted at least 10 years. And it still worked when I replaced it
My uncle was still using the microwave that came with his mobile home from the late 70’s. It was huge and opened like an oven. It did die though after 25 years of dedicated, loyal service.
Yep. I only had to replace my microwave from 2001 a couple of years ago. My fridge from 1986 only died a couple of months ago - I was sad to see it go, but what a good run it had! I don’t expect either of these new replacements to see the next decade, unfortunately.
My family has been using the same stove and oven that were installed when the house was built in the 90s. Same with the dryer. I can count on one hand the number of times any of them needed maintenance.
Don’t ask me why… but watching your videos really brings me some comfort. Your content is just wholesome and I love seeing all the old knickknacks you’ve got. And I’m glad you brought back the videos of you opening old cans, bottles, etc. thanks for posting 🙂
I'm a network engineer and a few years ago I was investigating intermittent issues at a company where the wireless network would stop working for a minute or two at a time during the day. After a while, we realized that the issues tended to happen mid day, around lunch time. A day or two later I'd discovered the culprit - one of these exact Microwaves was putting out enough interference anytime they used it to knock out the wifi.
Mercury switches actually don't rely on expansion or contraction of the mercury. The bulb of liquid mercury is simply there to cleanly make and break contact for countless cycles. The thing that tips the capsule one way or another is usually the fact that in something like a thermostat, it's attached to the end of a bimetallic coil strip that moves/turns as the temperature changes.
Back when I was a starving college student, a friend gave me a combination toaster oven/microwave. It was very similar with a dial timer, but it did have a satisfying "ding" at the end.
I bought my first microwave in 1980 ish. We were still leary about them being safe. I think I paid $300 for it. It lasted for many years. I'm still using a fridge I bought in 1991. It cost me $1300 which was pretty high back then but I guess I've gotten my money's worth!
We were given a 60’s microwave that was all metal and chrome with the dials for mode and time. It was 40 years old when we got it and it worked better than any microwave before or since.
Funnily enough the older 50’s/60’s fridges don’t use as much energy as you think I watched another video either on here or tik tok where someone tested them and the older fridges use less than modern ones! Anyways love your videos keep up the good work!👍
I think it has something to do with the auto-defrost that causes the new ones to use more energy overall. At least that's what I've been told by the vintage appliance collectors.
Thats false, r290 and r600 are FANTASTIC refridgerants, but back then they didn't know about the ozone and used the less flammable one instead. Before r12 they used the nasty sulphur dioxide as refrigerant since you would easily smell the leak, but without it being so flammable. Modern stuff uses so much less than the old stuff, as little as in a regular bic lighter at times. @@the_expidition427
I have a Panasonic microwave 1983, I still use it btw, but i takes more and more time to cook something with the years... I LOVE old appliances too 🤘!! I would watch more of these videos for sure!
When I had a kid we had a Sharp microwave that size, except it did have the turntable, it was called a Carousel. It was 400 watts back when the instructions on packages were for 700 watt microwaves, and then later when I finally had a 700 watt, the instructions on packages changed to 1100 watt, I just can't win! Also I love your attitude towards older more reliable appliances, I myself have an older (1998) car that's been in my family for most of its life and I plan on keeping forever.
My dad still has one of these microwaves! We used it on family vacations. Small enough he could hook it up with an inverter to our minivan battery and warm things up while at a campsite or where ever needed. It was perfect size for our small RV.
To this very day I have (and still use everyday) a 1988 Amana Radarange microwave. I believe its 1800 watts so it cooks very well, its got the woodgrain and brown scheme going on, works like a charm after 35 years. I tried newer appliances but they all end up croaking or needing some pricey pcb board after a few years, the old appliances never die!
New machines aren't only unreliable but they're built so cheaply and dents so easily, I've had microwaves refrigerators and a snowblower that are brand new and the sheet metal is so thin that when they're running it makes a horrible rattling sound
The real thing is this radaranges cost as much as commercial microwaves today - and you can still buy a proper Amana, they het used at 7-11's and such and put up with that for years.
I enjoy vintage stuff too. After my grandpa passed, I kept a lot of his and my grandma's old stuff out of the estate sale. Grandma had a gold mine of old PYREX and Corning Ware baking dishes and Tupperware. I kept basically everything from the kitchen except the large appliances. Also kept their old Hoover and Electrolux vacuum cleaners from the 1970's and pretty much emptied out grandpa's workshop and the garage. There was one thing that I wanted since I was a child, though, and I couldn't get it, and that was my great-grandma's '61 Buick Electra. It crushed my soul watching that old car drive away on a trailer.
I cannot believe you found that just sitting on the side of the road! What a find! I love everything from the 80’s. It may be simplistic but that’s what makes it so wonderful.
Nice find! These were used in Roadtrek RVs. They are unique because they are moar vertical than others with side controls. Mine could burn food, but not so bad, maybe like you say, it had a microwave mixer (moving blades to disburse waves)in the ceiling. When mine stopped working I was astonished to find a replacement at a yard sale. They fit in a custom cabinet in the Road Trek.. These are great for all classic/retro RVs because the shape takes less counter or shelf space than the dime a dozen horizontal ones, although they may not fit a dinner plate.. but since they don' rotate, they can do larger odd sized square food storage containers. Plus they are simple, light, easy on wiring, but vanishingly rare to find.
The yellowing is from bromine. It's something they put in plastics as a fire retardant. In white and light grey plastics it turned yellow over time. It can be rewhitened with peroxide. The easiest way is peroxide creme used for hair bleaching. There's instructions online but you pretty much smear the stuff on and set the plastic under uv or sunlight to rewhiten.
I've been showing my mom your videos! She thought they were very interesting and thought you seemed like a cool person. I've been watching your videos for about a year now, and, as many people have said, I find them very relaxing and interesting. Your content is so genuine and doesn't need superfluous editing and sound effects to be entertaining, which is a rare thing. Keep it up!!
That's likely a 500-watt microwave. I have an old GE 600-watt microwave from 1989 and it takes a good 40% more time to cook a frozen meal, since most frozen meals are rated for 1100-watt microwaves. But seeing as old microwaves from 35 years ago are still working, it's a true testamate to how well things were built back then.
my god that thing is so damn tiny.....I love that some though of this, I'd say it's a high end dorm/rv/boat model from the late 80's early 90's. Just a lovely little thing to see still running!
That's a brilliant little oven - would be perfect for a camper conversion, shame there aren't many manufacturers out there making small, low wattage off-grid appliances. Talking of old appliances in the context of reliability; we've got a 30 year old (maybe older) Miele washing machine (German made), and the thing has never let us down once. It's getting due for some new drum bearings, which I'm dreading as you have to hoist the whole drum assembly out with an engine crane - so that'll be fun...
I had one of those old 80’s small microwaves (different model but same brand/size). It took forever to cook so yours is functioning pretty normal. It didn’t ding when it finished either, it just cut off just like yours.
I've never seen a microwave that small before. I've got a 1979 Toshiba microwave that's been in daily use since the day it was bought. It died two years ago with a blown capacitor on the board but I haven't got around to trying to fix it yet. No turntable, but it had a rotating deflector in the ceiling to scatter the microwaves so you didn't have to adjust the food.
A month ago my refrigerator died, it was bought by my parents in 1977 and worked until September 2023! consecutive! Unbelievable! And when I say when he worked continuously it means that he did not stop working at all except for a power outage once every twenty years and even that was only for a few minutes. And even the lamp inside when you open a door has never burned out.
Another great video! BTW your basement microwave is a GE Profile 1100 Watt Microwave. Looks to be from the early 2000's! Thanks for all the great content!
My grandma had this same one till she passed, and i have it now, i used it every day for years. Its still going. Nice and small, and an actual mechanical bell ding, not electronic beep. Love it : )
I always just love the simplicity of some of the things you show us and talk to us about. I wouldn’t have thought I would have enjoyed an old microwave but here we are lol 😂 thanks Post!
That's cool. I remember back in the mid 80s the 7-Eleven in my neighborhood had this stainless steel looking microwave about the size on that little one and it cooked frozen burritos etc in the store really fast, like 2 minutes. One of those would be neat to find. Awesome videos as always. Cheers 👍
Yeah the old appliances with the mechanical timers were the best, before they went full throttle with the planned obsolescence like today. If I had a truck Id pick up every free, white, cube shaped, old-school washer or dryer I saw on tge side of the road. Got side tracked, rambling lol Great video Post!
I love that you love old appliances because I also love old appliances so its neat to see someone that appreciates the older more reliable less computer driven technologies.
I've found that the microwaves without turntables work more efficiently without you having to turn the food around, due to a spinning waveguide above the cooking chamber (under that cover on the chamber ceiling) that more evenly distributes microwaves. The turntable versions have to have said turntable because the waveguide doesn't turn. Unless you place the food on the exact center of a turntable microwave, it actually cooks less evenly.
^ This I was wanting to say this but couldn't word it as well as this, they basically have a metal fan thingy to fan the microwaves around to put it in my dumber words :). That's why the big circular thing exists where the magnetron is located.
I still have and use this microwave. I make it a rule in my household to not have modern appliances. All of mine are from the 80s , the fridge , cooker , washing machine, toaster , even my pots and pans are still from the 80s which I bought them new back then. Still going strong all these years later. I would say the newest thing in my house would be a Philips 1993 CRT tv . I even still use a rotary dial house phone. I will never go modern. I refuse to evolve with the world. Obviously I still need my smartphone for work and etc but I’m 99% vintage
They actually had a microwave kind of like this one, with a dial, in the break room at a classical radio station, located on a community college campus, I worked at. I worked there from 2008 to 2014. I wasn't 100% sure what it was, but I think it was a very old microwave oven from the late 70's or early 80's. I've never seen anything like it. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a toaster oven, even though it looked a lot like one and had the same kind of door.
I was staying over at an elderly man's house for a day once to help him out (he was almost completely immobile and needed someone to sit with him in case of an emergency) and I needed to heat up some food, and he directed me to a microwave like this. The dial on his only went up to somewhere like five minutes. I remember staring at it and wondering what it even was because I'd never seen a microwave with a dial before. It took me like twelve minutes to cook my cup noodles, lol.
Thats wild. my first job as a kid in the 80's (I was around 16 or 17) was at 7-11 and we used to have this same microwave by the cold case and the slurpee machine. customers would nuke the frozen burritos inside of it. thing stayed right there in the same spot until 2006, well after I quit working there.
I agree, the simple gadgets are the best. I personally hate how everything has gone digital, just another thing to go wrong. I love that microwave, what a great size. It's really good how you pick these things up and keep them from being landfill.
I had one of these when I was in college. I carried it around from the dorms to my many apartments in Austin until I left. Worked great for what it was - a low-wattage small microwave.
I still have a small dorm sized microwave made in the 1980s that I picked up around 2000 when I moved out on my own, then I used it in a garage for years, about 5 years ago I took it apart and replaced the power cord with a modern cord with a ground and now I use it daily in my office for lunches. Works great, I think it’s 700 watt and it’s only slightly slower than my kitchen unit. It also has a mechanical bell in it. :)
My great Grandpa left my dad an old Samsung microwave when he passed away in 2008. My dad was born in 1964 and he remembers using the same microwave when he would come visit during his teen years. We are still using it!
Aug 1986, that microwave was 3 years old when I joined the service. About 5 months later we were in the Gulf sand box war, just not called a war at that time. Peace keepers as they say. Thanks for the shows Post.
What a cute little microwave!! I have an app on my phone which converts a recipe power into microwave power, your 6 minute dinner takes 16 minutes 30 seconds on a 400w microwave
@@TheCozypillow They are different ones for iPhone and Android… on iPhone I use “Microwave” (icon red microwave on a black background) - if you’re an android user it’s called “Watt Time” - (icon beigey yellow microwave on a blue background made by Monolith Studios) - caution there is a app called Watt Time that shows up first, that is for Tesla soo scroll down more)
You’ll never have microwaves like this again so if anyone can find these then definitely buy one. Mind you our modern ones have lasted ten years with our most recent turning 8 and I can imagine it’ll live another 3 or 5 years.
I have an old awesome dryer like that. My Dad bought it and left it to me. I had another dryer that went out. Had to fix it. This one won't have the same problem. It works great!
Cool video Post 10, a friendly suggestion if you want to "make" the plastic parts like new, take the part(s) off the item, place in a container big enough for the parts to be submerged, like in a glass container, cover the outside of the container with aluminum foil, then place the parts to be restored in the container, fill with hydrogen peroxide and then place UV lights above the liquid and come back later, check the color of the parts and repeat until you're satisfied, I watch Tonka toys restorations and the UV light and hydrogen peroxide work pretty good, TRG restoration, Chip channel are two restoration channels to learn from
This was a very basic (budget/no frills) model microwave oven, intended primarily for college dorm rooms and efficiency apartments. Units of this general type were sold under a variety of names from the 1970s through the early 2000s. The low power rating is actually a blessing in disguise; it cooks a bit more slowly than more powerful models, and that makes it more difficult to overcook your food. The unit has only what's absolutely necessary to function: the magnetron, a small cook chamber, and a simple, reliable timer. If it was still more cost-effective to use mechanical timers today, they would still offer units with them, but electronic controls are actually less expensive now, and offer more features. I worked for an apartment management company in the 1990s; they would actually provide microwave ovens similar to this in their units located in older buildings, The reason was, the wiring in a lot of those older buildings wasn't very robust, and by providing a small microwave oven in the unit, the tenant was less likely to go out and buy a larger unit, which meant there was less likelihood of popping fuses and circuit breakers.
I would say that they made dryer doors smaller back in the day so that clothes (Or other washable items) would not just simply fall out when you open the door, We have that issue on our modern dryer where the door is bigger and semi-often stuff just falls out.
0:47 Sadly this is not the case. The inconsistency in heating with microwaves is not a simple issue of the electromagnetic waves failing to penetrate, but rather a mosaic of refracting waves that results in wildly inconsistent hotspots. For this reason, many microwave ovens (old and new) use a wave stirrer, which aims to shift the refraction of the waves around with a rotating piece of metal that reflects the waves. And yet for some reason this tends to not be sufficient, so often times modern microwaves make use of a wave stirrer AND a turntable.
That little microwave is so cute! Lol Inside your microwave (that u heated up water with) there should be a metal plate on the left side of the inside wall that should tell you the wattage. I remember when i was a kid my mother had that exact clothes dryer. Lol You sure got a great deal. I live in an apartment now and have a refrigerator that was here 20 years ago when I moved in. Still works like a charm. Thanks for sharing your great finds.
I have the same washer as yours and didn't have any dents in it. It's my mom's and it works like brand new when my mom bought it used. I remember my mom used to having a dryer exactly like yours back in the 90's. She bought it cheap too and of course it wasn't until it was on it's last leg around the early 2000's.
I'd use one of these lil guys for my cheese sauce, so adorable and the low wattage is great to reduce popping! Modern ones don't adjust their wattage, put them on a lower 'power level' and they just cycle on and off
Hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed tonight's video and tomorrow we will be back with old food Saturday
After making this video, did you see that on that list that's on the Sharp microwave, that in the middle it lists frozen dinners time is 12 minutes?😂❤
Can't wait 👌
Omg yesss it’s been a while since I had seen an old food Saturday
Pleasure as always😊
You are correct sir!@@MichaylaLovesJesus83
I never thought I’d see one of these ever again. This is the microwave we had in my parents kitchen growing up in the mid 90’s. Talk about nostalgia.
we had turntables in the 90s so you guys must had an older model. I am pretty sure my family first one in the late 80s like 88 was turn table.
Cheap/small microwaves in the early-1990s did not have a turntable.
I remember heating a frozen entree in Grandmother's microwave. Part of it became so hot that the plastic tray melted, while another part was still frozen!
My friend had a microwave just like this. He only knew the dial timer... Until he came to my house where we'z was fancy and had digital. He made popcorn and asked how to do 3 minutes. Press 3 0 0 start. He pushed 3 0 0 0 start and we went to outside to play. We came back in about 20 minutes later and the microwave looked like a military smoke bomb! It took weeks to get the smell out of our house. (Oh and my mom and dad were thrilled lol)
Take the plastic parts off, soak it in hydrogen peroxide covered in cling wrap. Set it in the sun or it won't work. That will remove yellowing on plastic in 5-7 days :)
@@justmytw0centsi like the "time color" on these old stuff, it says that the machine has seen lot of its time :D
Old appliances are the best, they just last so much longer. My grandma recently had to replace their old microwave and stove and I’m so glad I got some photos of them.
In my experience microwaves are among the most Hardy things that you can use when it comes to appliances. Every microwave I've ever owned at least lasted at least 10 years. And it still worked when I replaced it
@@krislarsen6546 In the past 15 years almost ALL over the range microwaves are junk after just five years or less! Planned obsolescence!
My uncle was still using the microwave that came with his mobile home from the late 70’s. It was huge and opened like an oven. It did die though after 25 years of dedicated, loyal service.
Yep. I only had to replace my microwave from 2001 a couple of years ago. My fridge from 1986 only died a couple of months ago - I was sad to see it go, but what a good run it had! I don’t expect either of these new replacements to see the next decade, unfortunately.
My family has been using the same stove and oven that were installed when the house was built in the 90s. Same with the dryer. I can count on one hand the number of times any of them needed maintenance.
Don’t ask me why… but watching your videos really brings me some comfort. Your content is just wholesome and I love seeing all the old knickknacks you’ve got. And I’m glad you brought back the videos of you opening old cans, bottles, etc. thanks for posting 🙂
me too
I'm a network engineer and a few years ago I was investigating intermittent issues at a company where the wireless network would stop working for a minute or two at a time during the day. After a while, we realized that the issues tended to happen mid day, around lunch time. A day or two later I'd discovered the culprit - one of these exact Microwaves was putting out enough interference anytime they used it to knock out the wifi.
Musta had a compromised faraday cage / shell, or the window doesn't have a metal screen across the front.
It looks soo cool when the timer is turning. Slow, slow but steady!
Mercury switches actually don't rely on expansion or contraction of the mercury. The bulb of liquid mercury is simply there to cleanly make and break contact for countless cycles. The thing that tips the capsule one way or another is usually the fact that in something like a thermostat, it's attached to the end of a bimetallic coil strip that moves/turns as the temperature changes.
Back when I was a starving college student, a friend gave me a combination toaster oven/microwave. It was very similar with a dial timer, but it did have a satisfying "ding" at the end.
Some of those old appliances are insanely durable. I have two refrigerators from the early 1950s and they'll still get cold enough to freeze beer!
I bought my first microwave in 1980 ish. We were still leary about them being safe. I think I paid $300 for it. It lasted for many years. I'm still using a fridge I bought in 1991. It cost me $1300 which was pretty high back then but I guess I've gotten my money's worth!
It would save you mony in the long run to buy a new, because they are way more efficient now.
Rip electric bill
I truly appreciate the transparency in your videos
I still use the Tappan microwave my dad bought in 1973. Works like a champ. It cost $800 new.
We were given a 60’s microwave that was all metal and chrome with the dials for mode and time. It was 40 years old when we got it and it worked better than any microwave before or since.
I love your videos it sounds dumb but there is something almost magical about old mechanical appliances.
Funnily enough the older 50’s/60’s fridges don’t use as much energy as you think I watched another video either on here or tik tok where someone tested them and the older fridges use less than modern ones! Anyways love your videos keep up the good work!👍
Interesting!
I think it has something to do with the auto-defrost that causes the new ones to use more energy overall. At least that's what I've been told by the vintage appliance collectors.
It's the R12 more efficient as R600, except it does destroy the ozone layer
@@the_expidition427 kek, as usual saving the environment requires destroying it.
Thats false, r290 and r600 are FANTASTIC refridgerants, but back then they didn't know about the ozone and used the less flammable one instead. Before r12 they used the nasty sulphur dioxide as refrigerant since you would easily smell the leak, but without it being so flammable. Modern stuff uses so much less than the old stuff, as little as in a regular bic lighter at times. @@the_expidition427
I have a Panasonic microwave 1983, I still use it btw, but i takes more and more time to cook something with the years... I LOVE old appliances too 🤘!! I would watch more of these videos for sure!
I had that same dryer. Those and old fashioned washers that'll take any kind of soap or detergent you can throw at it are absolute treasures now.
When I had a kid we had a Sharp microwave that size, except it did have the turntable, it was called a Carousel. It was 400 watts back when the instructions on packages were for 700 watt microwaves, and then later when I finally had a 700 watt, the instructions on packages changed to 1100 watt, I just can't win! Also I love your attitude towards older more reliable appliances, I myself have an older (1998) car that's been in my family for most of its life and I plan on keeping forever.
My dad still has one of these microwaves! We used it on family vacations. Small enough he could hook it up with an inverter to our minivan battery and warm things up while at a campsite or where ever needed. It was perfect size for our small RV.
To this very day I have (and still use everyday) a 1988 Amana Radarange microwave. I believe its 1800 watts so it cooks very well, its got the woodgrain and brown scheme going on, works like a charm after 35 years. I tried newer appliances but they all end up croaking or needing some pricey pcb board after a few years, the old appliances never die!
New machines aren't only unreliable but they're built so cheaply and dents so easily, I've had microwaves refrigerators and a snowblower that are brand new and the sheet metal is so thin that when they're running it makes a horrible rattling sound
The real thing is this radaranges cost as much as commercial microwaves today - and you can still buy a proper Amana, they het used at 7-11's and such and put up with that for years.
I enjoy vintage stuff too. After my grandpa passed, I kept a lot of his and my grandma's old stuff out of the estate sale. Grandma had a gold mine of old PYREX and Corning Ware baking dishes and Tupperware. I kept basically everything from the kitchen except the large appliances. Also kept their old Hoover and Electrolux vacuum cleaners from the 1970's and pretty much emptied out grandpa's workshop and the garage. There was one thing that I wanted since I was a child, though, and I couldn't get it, and that was my great-grandma's '61 Buick Electra. It crushed my soul watching that old car drive away on a trailer.
I cannot believe you found that just sitting on the side of the road! What a find! I love everything from the 80’s. It may be simplistic but that’s what makes it so wonderful.
Nice find! These were used in Roadtrek RVs. They are unique because they are moar vertical than others with side controls. Mine could burn food, but not so bad, maybe like you say, it had a microwave mixer (moving blades to disburse waves)in the ceiling. When mine stopped working I was astonished to find a replacement at a yard sale. They fit in a custom cabinet in the Road Trek.. These are great for all classic/retro RVs because the shape takes less counter or shelf space than the dime a dozen horizontal ones, although they may not fit a dinner plate.. but since they don' rotate, they can do larger odd sized square food storage containers. Plus they are simple, light, easy on wiring, but vanishingly rare to find.
The yellowing is from bromine. It's something they put in plastics as a fire retardant. In white and light grey plastics it turned yellow over time. It can be rewhitened with peroxide. The easiest way is peroxide creme used for hair bleaching. There's instructions online but you pretty much smear the stuff on and set the plastic under uv or sunlight to rewhiten.
Doesn't fix it permanently though. It comes back even more quickly.
Would that be why kenner stormtrooper figures yellow like that?
I've been showing my mom your videos! She thought they were very interesting and thought you seemed like a cool person. I've been watching your videos for about a year now, and, as many people have said, I find them very relaxing and interesting. Your content is so genuine and doesn't need superfluous editing and sound effects to be entertaining, which is a rare thing. Keep it up!!
I love that cute little microwave.
That's likely a 500-watt microwave. I have an old GE 600-watt microwave from 1989 and it takes a good 40% more time to cook a frozen meal, since most frozen meals are rated for 1100-watt microwaves. But seeing as old microwaves from 35 years ago are still working, it's a true testamate to how well things were built back then.
I heat my mill on lower powe but longer. And het is spread more evenly inside food mass.
my god that thing is so damn tiny.....I love that some though of this, I'd say it's a high end dorm/rv/boat model from the late 80's early 90's. Just a lovely little thing to see still running!
My Grandparents had this exact microwave in their RV back in the 80's.
That's a brilliant little oven - would be perfect for a camper conversion, shame there aren't many manufacturers out there making small, low wattage off-grid appliances. Talking of old appliances in the context of reliability; we've got a 30 year old (maybe older) Miele washing machine (German made), and the thing has never let us down once. It's getting due for some new drum bearings, which I'm dreading as you have to hoist the whole drum assembly out with an engine crane - so that'll be fun...
You don't get to see things like that anymore ,cool 👍
OMG😲Mouses in freezer ? Snack for snake ? 🍔😋
Here on Kangaroo Island, people use old microwaves as mailboxes - keeps the mail nice and dry!
I had one of those old 80’s small microwaves (different model but same brand/size). It took forever to cook so yours is functioning pretty normal. It didn’t ding when it finished either, it just cut off just like yours.
I like how you think Post. You make this fun. Thank you young man.
Great find New England 👍Didn't know they were still around especially on a roadside .. A gem from '84
This was a cool video. Your appreciation for old appliances is endearing. Nice to see them get put to use!
I remember when we got our first microwave…early 80’s….this brings me back
Yeah we had one in the 80’s. It was as big and bulky as a 32” TV
postie, you're a legend, keep it up mate 👍
I've never seen a microwave that small before. I've got a 1979 Toshiba microwave that's been in daily use since the day it was bought. It died two years ago with a blown capacitor on the board but I haven't got around to trying to fix it yet. No turntable, but it had a rotating deflector in the ceiling to scatter the microwaves so you didn't have to adjust the food.
A month ago my refrigerator died, it was bought by my parents in 1977 and worked until September 2023! consecutive! Unbelievable! And when I say when he worked continuously it means that he did not stop working at all except for a power outage once every twenty years and even that was only for a few minutes. And even the lamp inside when you open a door has never burned out.
My microwave head knobs also it had a bell.
Recently it stopped working. So I'm going to buy a new one soon
Another great video! BTW your basement microwave is a GE Profile 1100 Watt Microwave. Looks to be from the early 2000's! Thanks for all the great content!
This is the cutest appliance and you know things back then were built to last
Wow, my grandmother bought hers in 1986 as well. Brings back memories.
What a cool find. Never seen one that small.
My grandma had this same one till she passed, and i have it now, i used it every day for years. Its still going.
Nice and small, and an actual mechanical bell ding, not electronic beep. Love it : )
This is guy is awesome, Ive never seen someone so interested in basic modern tools of kitchen life. Lol
I always just love the simplicity of some of the things you show us and talk to us about. I wouldn’t have thought I would have enjoyed an old microwave but here we are lol 😂 thanks Post!
The burner is pure fiya 🔥 and the Microwave is litt!
Sooo cute and tiny
But it got the job done. Great vid Post❤
That microwave on the shelf. Its power level. It's over 9000!!!!!
My grandma had this model. I haven't seen it since the 80's. Thanks for putting this up
That's cool. I remember back in the mid 80s the 7-Eleven in my neighborhood had this stainless steel looking microwave about the size on that little one and it cooked frozen burritos etc in the store really fast, like 2 minutes. One of those would be neat to find. Awesome videos as always. Cheers 👍
Post! My husband and I love watching all your videos! Hope you're having a great evening!
Yeah the old appliances with the mechanical timers were the best, before they went full throttle with the planned obsolescence like today. If I had a truck Id pick up every free, white, cube shaped, old-school washer or dryer I saw on tge side of the road.
Got side tracked, rambling lol
Great video Post!
Great video we love your old food and old appliances videos we think they are your best work great job always look forward to seeing them
Very interesting video! You have some very awesome old appliances!!
My grandmother used to have one just liked this one. I still have a microwave oven that my parents gotten over 40 years ago. It still works.
Nice love old nostalgia have a good night cool
You're a true Horsefighter!❤
My Grandma’s first microwave!!! Literally the exact one! Wow, brought back some memories and glad to see it still works! Great find bud! ❤
I love that you love old appliances because I also love old appliances so its neat to see someone that appreciates the older more reliable less computer driven technologies.
I bought that peppermint whipped cream too!! 😋😋😋😋
Good morning Post ! Looking forward to your next two uploads 💕
I've found that the microwaves without turntables work more efficiently without you having to turn the food around, due to a spinning waveguide above the cooking chamber (under that cover on the chamber ceiling) that more evenly distributes microwaves. The turntable versions have to have said turntable because the waveguide doesn't turn. Unless you place the food on the exact center of a turntable microwave, it actually cooks less evenly.
^ This I was wanting to say this but couldn't word it as well as this, they basically have a metal fan thingy to fan the microwaves around to put it in my dumber words :). That's why the big circular thing exists where the magnetron is located.
I still have and use this microwave. I make it a rule in my household to not have modern appliances. All of mine are from the 80s , the fridge , cooker , washing machine, toaster , even my pots and pans are still from the 80s which I bought them new back then. Still going strong all these years later. I would say the newest thing in my house would be a Philips 1993 CRT tv . I even still use a rotary dial house phone. I will never go modern. I refuse to evolve with the world. Obviously I still need my smartphone for work and etc but I’m 99% vintage
99% vintage but posting comments on UA-cam lol
@@XuroX. like I said I still need a phone 🫡
I love when you do old items. It brings so much nostalgia to me.
They actually had a microwave kind of like this one, with a dial, in the break room at a classical radio station, located on a community college campus, I worked at. I worked there from 2008 to 2014. I wasn't 100% sure what it was, but I think it was a very old microwave oven from the late 70's or early 80's. I've never seen anything like it. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a toaster oven, even though it looked a lot like one and had the same kind of door.
I was staying over at an elderly man's house for a day once to help him out (he was almost completely immobile and needed someone to sit with him in case of an emergency) and I needed to heat up some food, and he directed me to a microwave like this. The dial on his only went up to somewhere like five minutes. I remember staring at it and wondering what it even was because I'd never seen a microwave with a dial before. It took me like twelve minutes to cook my cup noodles, lol.
That microwave is spot on on the cooking time, 12 minutes is exactly the cooking time it has on the guide on the front of it.
Thats wild. my first job as a kid in the 80's (I was around 16 or 17) was at 7-11 and we used to have this same microwave by the cold case and the slurpee machine. customers would nuke the frozen burritos inside of it. thing stayed right there in the same spot until 2006, well after I quit working there.
Cool video boss, love the dryer as well. The dryer will probably last another ten years!
I agree, the simple gadgets are the best. I personally hate how everything has gone digital, just another thing to go wrong.
I love that microwave, what a great size. It's really good how you pick these things up and keep them from being landfill.
I had one of these when I was in college. I carried it around from the dorms to my many apartments in Austin until I left. Worked great for what it was - a low-wattage small microwave.
I still have a small dorm sized microwave made in the 1980s that I picked up around 2000 when I moved out on my own, then I used it in a garage for years, about 5 years ago I took it apart and replaced the power cord with a modern cord with a ground and now I use it daily in my office for lunches. Works great, I think it’s 700 watt and it’s only slightly slower than my kitchen unit. It also has a mechanical bell in it. :)
My great Grandpa left my dad an old Samsung microwave when he passed away in 2008. My dad was born in 1964 and he remembers using the same microwave when he would come visit during his teen years. We are still using it!
Cool! I actually remember seeing one of these at an old office building my uncle worked at years ago. Love these old appliance videos!
Aug 1986, that microwave was 3 years old when I joined the service.
About 5 months later we were in the Gulf sand box war, just not called a war at that time. Peace keepers as they say.
Thanks for the shows Post.
What a cute little microwave!! I have an app on my phone which converts a recipe power into microwave power, your 6 minute dinner takes 16 minutes 30 seconds on a 400w microwave
What’s the app called? I’m curious
@@TheCozypillow They are different ones for iPhone and Android… on iPhone I use “Microwave” (icon red microwave on a black background) - if you’re an android user it’s called “Watt Time” - (icon beigey yellow microwave on a blue background made by Monolith Studios) - caution there is a app called Watt Time that shows up first, that is for Tesla soo scroll down more)
You’ll never have microwaves like this again so if anyone can find these then definitely buy one. Mind you our modern ones have lasted ten years with our most recent turning 8 and I can imagine it’ll live another 3 or 5 years.
Awesome collection
Very cool stuff, I'm glad I found your channel. Gonna be on the lookout for one of those microwaves for my car.
I have an old awesome dryer like that. My Dad bought it and left it to me. I had another dryer that went out. Had to fix it. This one won't have the same problem. It works great!
Cool video Post 10, a friendly suggestion if you want to "make" the plastic parts like new, take the part(s) off the item, place in a container big enough for the parts to be submerged, like in a glass container, cover the outside of the container with aluminum foil, then place the parts to be restored in the container, fill with hydrogen peroxide and then place UV lights above the liquid and come back later, check the color of the parts and repeat until you're satisfied, I watch Tonka toys restorations and the UV light and hydrogen peroxide work pretty good, TRG restoration, Chip channel are two restoration channels to learn from
This was a very basic (budget/no frills) model microwave oven, intended primarily for college dorm rooms and efficiency apartments. Units of this general type were sold under a variety of names from the 1970s through the early 2000s. The low power rating is actually a blessing in disguise; it cooks a bit more slowly than more powerful models, and that makes it more difficult to overcook your food. The unit has only what's absolutely necessary to function: the magnetron, a small cook chamber, and a simple, reliable timer. If it was still more cost-effective to use mechanical timers today, they would still offer units with them, but electronic controls are actually less expensive now, and offer more features.
I worked for an apartment management company in the 1990s; they would actually provide microwave ovens similar to this in their units located in older buildings, The reason was, the wiring in a lot of those older buildings wasn't very robust, and by providing a small microwave oven in the unit, the tenant was less likely to go out and buy a larger unit, which meant there was less likelihood of popping fuses and circuit breakers.
CLR will clean up that rust spot!
My dad had that exact same microwave in his shop office for many years. Seeing your example definitely brought me back.
Thanks Post! 👊👍Appreciate you my friend 🙏
That is cool, I love vintage products and appliances..Awesome video 😎
Cool find! Reminds me of the one my best friend's parents had when I was growing up in the 80's
Man I love your videos. So much fun,,,
I would say that they made dryer doors smaller back in the day so that clothes (Or other washable items) would not just simply fall out when you open the door, We have that issue on our modern dryer where the door is bigger and semi-often stuff just falls out.
I’m 42 and I had this same exact microwave in my kitchen early 90s. My grandmother brought it from a yard sale. It was definitely white back then lol
Cool! I love these old appliances
I was 8 months old when this microwave are made. Nice find! :D
0:47 Sadly this is not the case. The inconsistency in heating with microwaves is not a simple issue of the electromagnetic waves failing to penetrate, but rather a mosaic of refracting waves that results in wildly inconsistent hotspots. For this reason, many microwave ovens (old and new) use a wave stirrer, which aims to shift the refraction of the waves around with a rotating piece of metal that reflects the waves. And yet for some reason this tends to not be sufficient, so often times modern microwaves make use of a wave stirrer AND a turntable.
That little microwave is so cute! Lol Inside your microwave (that u heated up water with) there should be a metal plate on the left side of the inside wall that should tell you the wattage. I remember when i was a kid my mother had that exact clothes dryer. Lol You sure got a great deal. I live in an apartment now and have a refrigerator that was here 20 years ago when I moved in. Still works like a charm. Thanks for sharing your great finds.
I have the same washer as yours and didn't have any dents in it. It's my mom's and it works like brand new when my mom bought it used. I remember my mom used to having a dryer exactly like yours back in the 90's. She bought it cheap too and of course it wasn't until it was on it's last leg around the early 2000's.
8-D What a blast from the past! My childhood home had a Sharp Carousel in that form factor, from that time period. What an awesome old microwave.
I'd use one of these lil guys for my cheese sauce, so adorable and the low wattage is great to reduce popping! Modern ones don't adjust their wattage, put them on a lower 'power level' and they just cycle on and off