"Dave Smith" > wrote:
> I like the 19668 ad for a microwave oven. Only $545. Back then I was
> making
> $1 per hour at my part time job. If I had been working full time for the
> same rate of pay it would take a month and a half to buy it. The last
> microwave I bought cost me three hours pay.

I just had to page down to see that. I was very surprised by the brand. I
was expecting it to be an Amana Radarange, but it's another brand,
International. I had no idea anyone else besides Amana was making one back
then.

My grandmother just had to have the latest of everything, so she had a
microwave by the summer of 1968. Her's was the Amana Radarange. She was so
proud of it and she cooked hamburgers for all our family with it. She put a
raw ground beef patty onto a bun, put it in the microwave and cooked it.
Though it was amazing to see a hamburger cooked directly in the bun, there
was a flaw in the plan. The rendered fat saturates the bun. Not real
appetizing, plus the burger doesn't get browned. She ended up getting an
electric meat grinder to make her own very lean ground beef to try and solve
the problem. But she eventually gave up on that technique. I've inherited
that meat grinder and now use it to make my own ground beef... but I don't
use it the way she did.

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