Baby Boomer Alert: Happy Birthday to the Microwave Oven!

The microwave oven is celebrating its 67th birthday this week.  It was first available for sale by Amana.  They called their early ovens Radarange.  It was too expensive ($5,000), too big and too scary for most people so they stayed away in droves.

Twenty years later Amana marketed a safer, cheaper and smaller counter top model and the microwave oven revolution began taking its baby steps.  It coast $495 (which is about $3,500 in today's money), so it was still scarce.  By the time everything got refined, around 1975, the microwaves were a must have in Mom's "modern kitchen."

If you think it was hard getting used to the phrase "microwave" ovens, how about this cook book from the 1930s?  No thanks.....