I'm very grateful that you didn't accidentally take out former Soviet military bases in a misguided attempt to cook hot dogs--your caution is admirable!
Thank you! We try not to reopen the Cold War in this household.
Check recent papers for headlines about Area Apartment as Source of Hitherto Unidentified Cosmic Radiation.
Oh, good point. We may have confused radio astronomers.
I should add that our microwave--which was a wedding present--uses a rotary dial. It takes a long time to do anything other than reheat leftovers.
From comments on this post, it sounds as though rotary dials were a feature of early microwaves that have not disappeared entirely, but may have become less popular than keypads. I find this fascinating! I think the first microwave oven we ever had in the house when I was growing up did not have a dial—and I'm not sure my grandparents ever had a microwave—so I hadn't realized it was even or ever a semi-normal feature.
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Thank you! We try not to reopen the Cold War in this household.
Check recent papers for headlines about Area Apartment as Source of Hitherto Unidentified Cosmic Radiation.
Oh, good point. We may have confused radio astronomers.
I should add that our microwave--which was a wedding present--uses a rotary dial. It takes a long time to do anything other than reheat leftovers.
From comments on this post, it sounds as though rotary dials were a feature of early microwaves that have not disappeared entirely, but may have become less popular than keypads. I find this fascinating! I think the first microwave oven we ever had in the house when I was growing up did not have a dial—and I'm not sure my grandparents ever had a microwave—so I hadn't realized it was even or ever a semi-normal feature.
Still looks like a military installation, though.