Vintage View: Celebrating 70 years of the microwave

Kya deLongchamps celebrates 70 years of the ‘high-frequency dielectric heating apparatus’ or the microwave oven

Sat, 15 Jul, 2017 - 01:00

There are many readers old enough to remember a “roasted” chicken being speared from the depths of a cream-coloured microwave oven and deposited proudly on the oil cloth.

The grey, rubber horror of it.

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