#amana radar range cookbook

[planforgoodcooking]

I've never actually used a Radar Range, which maybe you know is the very first microwave ever marketed.

I've seen them tho and they were hefty bois. You really did have to have a designated spot because they put out a lot of heat and weighed so much. They originally hit shelves in 1967, for what amounts to around $4500

My mom finally caved and got a microwave in the mid-1980s, when they shrunk just a bit in both size and price. I know my dad had a coronary even thinking about a Radar Range when they came out, so she had to wait. She kept that same microwave until she passed in 2002. She got all the special dishes and such for it because our regular plates had gold-colored rims. So we'd put the food on the special cooking plate, then transfer it to the regular plates and that didn't last long because that's twice the damned dishes. But the plastic bacon cooking tray? Mr Plan swears by his

[adtothebone]

‪Because the ladies love a man who knows how to microwave. ‬

‪“Jenn-Air too!?” [swoons]‬

[ralfmaximus]

I have a small collection of 1970s era microwave cookbooks! Some of them are manuals for the appliance, like supplemental materials: 100 ways to use your new Sears microwave and such.

And here’s the thing... some of those recipes rock.

For example, I learned how to make microwave omelettes that don’t suck, thanks to a 1975 Amana Radar Range recipe book. Some of that is like lost tech of the ancients that should be more actively preserved. 

[planforgoodcooking]

This is a section divider from the 1972 Amana Radar Range Cookbook.

"Suggested menu for the first day" -- they literally played this like you were leaving your old life behind and entering a new realm of convenient but bizarrely textured food and you'd love it because you could get it on the table so fast.

Forget everything you've ever known and enter The Microwave Era (read that as Tom Servo)

[planforgoodcooking]

I don't work with organ meat, so the entire recipe's instructions are a roller coaster for me. Whose brains? Why are they not sold already cleaned? I want them to harden once I par-cook them? What the what??

And once again, you are microwaving this

Amana Radar Range Cookbook, 1968

[planforgoodcooking]

In case you ever wanted to know how an Amana Radar Range worked. This is pretty much every microwave tho, just depends on where that metal plate is in yours. Don't mess with the plate, unless you want to see if you can become an X-Man

From the 1968 Amana Radar Range Cookbook

[planforgoodcooking]

There's nothing wrong here, except maybe the possible line of coke down the middle, and the ivy gaining sentience, and the Playdoh strips. Perfectly good peas

From the 1968 Amana Radar Range Cookbook