Kitchen cooking appliance

Record 041 · Home · 1967

50%67.41.M

Amana Radarange

Amana / Raytheon

“The first microwave that fit on a counter and then remade leftovers.”

Raytheon radar leftover became a $495 Amana appliance. By the 1980s it was a default kitchen box and a new food-packaging industry.

Microwave ovens later in ~90%+ of U.S. homes

  • Consumer-priced cavity magnetron oven
  • Countertop form

Cooks with microwaves.