This is the kind of edutainment that children should watch at school; straight to the point, easy to understand. None of these dumbed down, over-the-top skits that only pander their intelligence.
@@zmaxx21 This is a quintessentially Australian show, I remembered watching it as a kid in the late 70s early 80s. Regan had sweet fuck all to do with it in this instance. He screwed a fair few things, but his legacy didn't reach the Australian educational TV shows.
@@shakesfirst2443 Sorry, I was not referring to Australian children show programming, but American programming where the regulations were changed to suit corporate interests and not the kids who viewed the shows.
I remember asking my sixth grade science teacher this question back in 06 and she looked at me like i was stupid so did the rest of the class they thought I was poor and didnt own a Microwave but everything this video taught me was all I wanted to know
I’m so glad this show started popping up in my feed recently! It really is the best kind of educational content: explained clearly for the benefit of children, but not talking down to the audience at all so that adults can take an interest in it as well. I wish I could have watched this growing up in the US!
I remember moving into a new home in 1977, definitely huge microwave. I don't know in what video it was in but I saw a microwave from the 1950s and it was three times the size of the one in 1977.
My dad told me a story about when his mum first brought home a microwave oven. she would not believe that it would cook a chicken in 10 minutes, so she put it in for an hour, and it came out burnt to a crisp
I still have vivid memories of seeing this clip as a kid. I thought those globes were special crystals. Great to see this as an adult and get clarity on what that was.
@@williampratz8956 LED = Light-emitting diode. An LED works using semiconductors rather than heating a filament like an incandescent or halogen bulb. Rather than releasing photons via heat, it releases photons via electrical resistance, which is why LEDs don't get nearly as hot as other types of bulbs. As nothing is being heated, LEDs can operate far more efficiently and glow far brighter with considerably less energy. I might not have explained this perfectly or gotten a few things wrong, but hopefully, it gives you a decent idea of how they work.
That was amazing, I loved the globes that were effected by the microwaves. I would love to see that in a more recent model microwave oven. Thanks for the demonstration.
What's cool about the light apparatus is it appears to be made by Sharp, who produce one of the most purchased and reliable microwave ovens; the Carousel
This is very well done from the perspective of "initiating the uneducated", meaning a great simplified explanation, sufficient to answer initial curiosity.
I like to put my slow cooker inside my microwave and let them fight it out. I tried it once with some instant rice and I went back in time. In a couple of days I'll post about it yesterday.
Lovely explanation. Also, when he said about the vibration energy causing stuff to heat up rapidly, it made me think of something else, if it causes a heating effect... in, there 🤭😆😅
My dad and the first microwave we ever had died in the same year it was 2019. The microwave was from 1984. It was a 1500W beast w a heat probe u could plug in to "roast a turkey" I don't know if it disabled the turntable we never used the attachment. Just to be fair we never tried microwaving a turkey maybe the thing worked. We will never know.
This guy is amazing and I love the simple explanations. You have to really understand a concept and be brilliant at articulating that concept to simplify it like this. However, what’s goin on with that “hamburger patty”. That shit look like straight up bread. Like he just eating the top bun. Or is that just bread colored meat?
Its more of a rissole. Rissole's were very popular in Australia in the 70's-80's, and they were meat patty's rolled in breadcrumbs. Similar to a schnitzel.
Not sure I see your point. One is clearly for younger kids while the other is for older teens & adults. Neither style is better than the other, they're both trying to teach things in different ways to different people. How anyone could knock either of these shows is beyond me.
I came here to learn about how microwaves work. I left very surprised to learn about the fact that they knew about ultraviolet light from the sun and speed radar guns were around about in the 70s.
Very informative! Just one question; rob and/or deane, do you happen to know what that visual contraption you put in the microwave(the little globes)was? It would be cool to try it out myself!
It’s important to note that the microwave frequency only resonates with water molecules, so if your food is completely dry it will hardly heat up at all.
I bet that microwave would still work today... unlike the crappy ones made today. Even would cook the food better. I had a decent brand one that couldn't even last two years.
Our microwave was purchased in 1983. It still works. The company does not even exist anymore. Cost a sh*tload back then. A friend of mine needs to buy a new microwave every 2-3 years because the previous ones (relatively new ones) simply kick the bucket.
I can say, categorically and as a matter of fact: Although I understand the principle of Microwave heating, frequency and energy of the wave -- I was utterly interested in this production. Never since I was a child staring at my brothers Hamburger, with me Hot dog in hand and wondering if I made the right choice at the barbeque... have I paid ANY attention to another mans Burger as I have done now. It's a strangely reality altering affect whereby I feel I have been temporarily NPC'd by someone's Inane snack, enchanted to beguile passers by, caught up in some bland time bubble. If anyone finds me raiding Barbeques Trying to determine the answer to my childhood question, please be kind and let me do my thing, I clean up and will replace any burnt fuel.
(lol) What? Microwaves are low energy light. Light is a photon. Photons are massless! With no weight how would a photon move or rotate something that has weight? It wouldn't. It would defy the laws of physics. Photons are massless, so they are simply reflected. As the photon reflects, a bit of its energy is transferred to the molecule as heat.
@@OnYourSquareNot quite. While microwaves do heat by water absorbing microwave radiation, the absorption is actually due to the radiation causing the molecules to rotate in an attempt to align themselves with the field.
@@carlcalvinson Three things. 1. You're speaking on the molecular level. The interaction takes place on an atomic level. The photon is absorbed and reflected by the atoms orbiting electrons. 2. Photons are massless. They have no weight. The can not move anything. They CAN NOT CAUSE ANYTHING TO SPIN. That literally defies the laws of physics. That isn't me saying this, that's Albert Einstein 3. To realign and reorient the molecules together is to change polarity or to magnetize. You're information is filled with a ton of half and partial truths. Yet still, even if what you were saying were true (which it isn't), spinning molecules or not, the point still stands. 5g isn't dangerous.
Hi @AngryTechGuy I'm a chemical physicist and I can say quite definitively that these interactions are not reflections, but rather due to the reorientation of water molecules in response to the oscillating electric field. It is more useful in this instance to consider the wave nature of light, rather than the particle nature. Microwaves utilize wavelengths on the order of around 10 cm, which aren't small enough to directly interact with individual atoms in the manner that you're suggesting. What is actually causing the heating is a feature in the absorption spectrum for water known as the "Debye peak". Here's an excerpt from an article by Dan Elton that covers this phenomenon: "What is the physical source of this Debye peak? The Debye peak is due to cooperative relaxations of dipoles. Water molecules process an electric dipole moment, which is simply a positive charge cloud and negative charge cloud separated by a small distance. The positive charge is on the hydrogens and the negative charge is on the oxygen. The direction of the dipole is the direction of a vector pointing from the positive to the negative charge. When an electric field is applied, a dipole feels a force which acts to cause it to rotate and point in the same direction as the field. When an alternating electric field is applied dipoles will try to rotate with the field, as the field changes direction. At low frequencies , the dipoles have no problem keeping up with the field, but at higher frequencies frictional interactions between molecules prevent the molecule’s dipoles from keeping up and their motion lags behind the field. When this happens some of the radiation is absorbed and heat is generated. At even higher frequencies, the dipoles have absolutely no chance of keeping up, and the electromagnetic radiation passes directly through with no absorption." Finally, photons may be massless, but they do carry momentum. It is this momentum that is imparted to water molecules upon absorption that causes them to spin.
@@carlcalvinson Here's what I'll say: I'm an astronaut/rocket scientist working for SpaceX. Don't believe the photon is absorbed by the electron? Fine. But let it be known, a photon being passed between electron to atom is what keeps the electron in orbit around the atom. But the larger point still stands, 5G isn't dangerous regardless of the pseudoscience spin youd like to put on it.
The take that didn't make the cut:. "And more importantly, lads, all this electronic wizardry will shift our eating habits in the future such that we'll switch to eating more crappy food that will fatten us up and make us ill. Yes, these microwaves."
She sounds confused. But realistically, most microwave dinners have very little nutrition compared to fresh food so it is a misconception that the microwave removes nutritional value of food. But, cooking food in any way can reduce the nutritional value of some foods so she is not completely wrong..
The comments: He describes it so even I can understand! What he said: There's all sorts of electronic wizardry. There's a magnetron that produces microwaves Boy, he didn't explain how it works at all
This is the kind of edutainment that children should watch at school;
straight to the point, easy to understand.
None of these dumbed down, over-the-top skits that only pander their intelligence.
Couldn’t agree enough
Right? Why are they producing this rubbish?
Cause Reagan got rid of the regulations that governed educational tv for kids.
@@zmaxx21 This is a quintessentially Australian show, I remembered watching it as a kid in the late 70s early 80s. Regan had sweet fuck all to do with it in this instance. He screwed a fair few things, but his legacy didn't reach the Australian educational TV shows.
@@shakesfirst2443 Sorry, I was not referring to Australian children show programming, but American programming where the regulations were changed to suit corporate interests and not the kids who viewed the shows.
5:35 "that's why it cooks my food so well" *reluctantly nibbles a bit of the rancid looking burger*
lol what a bad closing line
@@MasterYoda389 it’s moments like this that make us like these guys so much lol. Legends
😂😂
I remember asking my sixth grade science teacher this question back in 06 and she looked at me like i was stupid so did the rest of the class they thought I was poor and didnt own a Microwave but everything this video taught me was all I wanted to know
Their always one teacher in your life doing that, and i dont like it ^^
@@XtraCrispy ^^
Crappy teacher.
I’m so glad this show started popping up in my feed recently! It really is the best kind of educational content: explained clearly for the benefit of children, but not talking down to the audience at all so that adults can take an interest in it as well. I wish I could have watched this growing up in the US!
I remember when my Dad brought a microwave home in the early 80s. It was HUGE and a thing of wonder!
@@andymerrett I always do it in the microwave.
Meh
I remember moving into a new home in 1977, definitely huge microwave. I don't know in what video it was in but I saw a microwave from the 1950s and it was three times the size of the one in 1977.
@@memonavaramirez6261 Outta here with your pessimism.
My dad told me a story about when his mum first brought home a microwave oven. she would not believe that it would cook a chicken in 10 minutes, so she put it in for an hour, and it came out burnt to a crisp
I'm doing my PhD and I watch these clips almost every day - I've realised I know nothing, but I'm learning so much!
Pretty Huge Diploma?
Ah, a phd on nothing, simply fascinating! Do tell!
I still have vivid memories of seeing this clip as a kid. I thought those globes were special crystals. Great to see this as an adult and get clarity on what that was.
I'm ignorant, but is it an LED?
@@williampratz8956 LED = Light-emitting diode. An LED works using semiconductors rather than heating a filament like an incandescent or halogen bulb. Rather than releasing photons via heat, it releases photons via electrical resistance, which is why LEDs don't get nearly as hot as other types of bulbs. As nothing is being heated, LEDs can operate far more efficiently and glow far brighter with considerably less energy. I might not have explained this perfectly or gotten a few things wrong, but hopefully, it gives you a decent idea of how they work.
@@williampratz8956
Not LED, neon bulbs.
They are special crystals
NO ads no sponsors every minute!!! It's something new!!!!
Hamburger straight -- no bread.
Now them's good eats, mate.
Czikkan Hardt Nope
@@V0YAG3R yup
Don't forget microwaved
So high-tech! Seriously though, I use a microwave every day, this is another great segment!
That was amazing, I loved the globes that were effected by the microwaves. I would love to see that in a more recent model microwave oven. Thanks for the demonstration.
Thanks for your kind remarks. There are many more science segments on our RUclips channel ruclips.net/user/curiosityshow Deane.
What's cool about the light apparatus is it appears to be made by Sharp, who produce one of the most purchased and reliable microwave ovens; the Carousel
I have a Sharp Carousel, and it still works well gets used every day and is about 26 years old.
@@steviebboy69 Good things were made to last in those days.
@@Fartman71 Yes they were and it still goes strong.
This is very well done from the perspective of "initiating the uneducated", meaning a great simplified explanation, sufficient to answer initial curiosity.
My mother held the world record for the world's largest collection of second hand microwave cookbooks. Yes, she was a hoarder.
Is she a hoarder or a collector?
Call her.. she's in the record books right?
80's kids still don't stand in front of the microwave. Our parents learned us that you get radiation from it. 🤣
Ah yes, the. Curiosity Show. Along with Professor Julius Sumner Miller and Beyond 2000, this was my childhood.
Oh wow, I hadn't thought about Beyond 2000 since... before 2000! 😃
I had forgotten Mr Miller, I have to look him up now 😃
Beyond 2000. God damn. Forgotten about that too. Loved it.
I like to put my slow cooker inside my microwave and let them fight it out. I tried it once with some instant rice and I went back in time. In a couple of days I'll post about it yesterday.
I feel nice to learn from this show , there is curiosity and some knowledge.
Ah, electronic wizardry. Nice
I’ve never heard of a microwave.
I’m going to have to get one!
🤣🤣
New fangle contraption
they describe stuff so well
Wow this show is so insightful I love it! It's the simple things that we are curious about.
this is actually describing how vibration works in a metaphysical and spiritual way
You guys were fantastic.
Lovely explanation. Also, when he said about the vibration energy causing stuff to heat up rapidly, it made me think of something else, if it causes a heating effect... in, there 🤭😆😅
My dad and the first microwave we ever had died in the same year it was 2019. The microwave was from 1984. It was a 1500W beast w a heat probe u could plug in to "roast a turkey" I don't know if it disabled the turntable we never used the attachment. Just to be fair we never tried microwaving a turkey maybe the thing worked. We will never know.
One thing missing. He should have explained how a magnetron/cavity resonator actually works.
Lol, this is already advanced enough!
Science!
This is so awesome. If I could I would like this twice. AWESOME
I wish this guy had been my physics teacher
My television is like a time machine, showing me your program that was broadcasted even before i was born
Ah yes a video made when disco was the rage. Takes me back to a happier time
We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries, got to move these refrigerators, got to move these color TVs 🎶
sorry, that ain't working....
@@Wingnut_Stickman that’s the way you do it
@@kallelaakso130 money for nothing
@@nikoliesto9348 and your chicks for free
I'm pretty sure Deane thought the gadget was still going, while he was eating at the end, not noticing that he'd quite literally cooked the device!
I couldn't tell if it was light sarcasm or not when he said "Ah, just how I like it. Well done."
I've literally never seen microwaves visualized until this video. It's kind of hard to search for too.
This guy is amazing and I love the simple explanations. You have to really understand a concept and be brilliant at articulating that concept to simplify it like this.
However, what’s goin on with that “hamburger patty”. That shit look like straight up bread. Like he just eating the top bun. Or is that just bread colored meat?
Its more of a rissole. Rissole's were very popular in Australia in the 70's-80's, and they were meat patty's rolled in breadcrumbs. Similar to a schnitzel.
Bill Nye < Curiosity Show These are great and you don't act like an idiot in your videos. Thank you :)
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Not sure I see your point. One is clearly for younger kids while the other is for older teens & adults. Neither style is better than the other, they're both trying to teach things in different ways to different people. How anyone could knock either of these shows is beyond me.
I don't know if the digital television signals work this same way or if they are different.
I came here to learn about how microwaves work. I left very surprised to learn about the fact that they knew about ultraviolet light from the sun and speed radar guns were around about in the 70s.
this man just explained this so well damn
Those things lighting up in the microwave at the end are so cool. What are they?
Awesome video. Unfortunately vibrating the molecules in food to the point of heating destroys the enjoyable texture of most foods.
Very informative! Just one question; rob and/or deane, do you happen to know what that visual contraption you put in the microwave(the little globes)was? It would be cool to try it out myself!
Where can I get one of those trays with the microwave sensitivitie globes
Though there are several things in a microwave that can be quite dangerous if not handled properly.
It’s important to note that the microwave frequency only resonates with water molecules, so if your food is completely dry it will hardly heat up at all.
I know this, yet i left the microwave running empty, & it melted itself.
@@Eduardo_Espinoza should've put a cd in it.
@@aaronanderson7619 that was my very 1st experiment when i was a kid
@@Eduardo_Espinoza ride the lightning
@@aaronanderson7619 that might have been my 2nd experiment too
This is way more interesting than stuff nowadays. That last part with the LEDs lighting up when a microwave hits them was really interesting to
Well not LEDs but globes like he said.
These captions are nuts
These are so good 😊
What are those lighting globes? I have never heard or seen that before.
Dude could just be making it all up as he goes along and I would still believe him. It's the sweater.
Owning a microwave in the 80's was how you flexed your wealth!
Microwave hamburger.
My favorite.
Grill marks are overrated
I make my steak in the microwave as it's the only way to be sure it's been cooked and the spirit of the dead cows released into the aether.
well this is nice to know now.. i must order one
Yum. Microwaved raw burger to well done. My favorite
So basicly.. a micro wave need less energy then an elecric stove? Or the regular stove?
a mr. seince with out a bow tie? im so in.
Crazy how appropriately the microwave hasn't changed all that much.
I wish he'd cover how wifi, cellular and the internet works
Well, it's pretty well-known that wifi and Internet work through magic.
..and in the next episode I'll be looking for a cure for violent diarrhea and vomiting
I made instant coffee in the microwave, when the bell went off, it was 1977. No time travel, this happened in 1977.
What kind of lights was used in the last demonstration?
1:44 quite right
"Electronic Wizardry?" Is that a Muggle thing?
I remember this being as big of a dill as our first vcr as a kid
Sauce pen 🤔 accents are fascinating
Actually; it's any molecules because even fats and egg protein cook in the microwave oven. A good old 70's show...🙂
The rumor has it that, this man is the father of the "action lab" guy.
"Just how I like it.... well done"
Watching this and thinking 'This guy has no idea I'm watching him on a smartphone'
I bet that microwave would still work today... unlike the crappy ones made today. Even would cook the food better.
I had a decent brand one that couldn't even last two years.
Our microwave was purchased in 1983. It still works. The company does not even exist anymore. Cost a sh*tload back then.
A friend of mine needs to buy a new microwave every 2-3 years because the previous ones (relatively new ones) simply kick the bucket.
There's a RUclips video on why microwaves peaked long ago, to back your claim.
Might watch it, even though I think it was long.
Quality times. Now is quantity times.
I can say, categorically and as a matter of fact: Although I understand the principle of Microwave heating, frequency and energy of the wave -- I was utterly interested in this production. Never since I was a child staring at my brothers Hamburger, with me Hot dog in hand and wondering if I made the right choice at the barbeque... have I paid ANY attention to another mans Burger as I have done now. It's a strangely reality altering affect whereby I feel I have been temporarily NPC'd by someone's Inane snack, enchanted to beguile passers by, caught up in some bland time bubble. If anyone finds me raiding Barbeques Trying to determine the answer to my childhood question, please be kind and let me do my thing, I clean up and will replace any burnt fuel.
Microwaved hamburger? Umm yumm!
the shape of the atoms is also important in the heating of the molecule
Is anyone questioning the microwaving of hamburger?
I love how it's called microwave and is also huge! lol
Ahaha... I see what you did there.
"Why do they call it oven when you *of in* the cold food of out hot eat the food?"
Microwaves don't cause the watermolecules to vibrate, it causes them to rotate!
(lol) What? Microwaves are low energy light. Light is a photon. Photons are massless!
With no weight how would a photon move or rotate something that has weight? It wouldn't. It would defy the laws of physics.
Photons are massless, so they are simply reflected. As the photon reflects, a bit of its energy is transferred to the molecule as heat.
@@OnYourSquareNot quite. While microwaves do heat by water absorbing microwave radiation, the absorption is actually due to the radiation causing the molecules to rotate in an attempt to align themselves with the field.
@@carlcalvinson Three things.
1. You're speaking on the molecular level. The interaction takes place on an atomic level. The photon is absorbed and reflected by the atoms orbiting electrons.
2. Photons are massless. They have no weight. The can not move anything. They CAN NOT CAUSE ANYTHING TO SPIN. That literally defies the laws of physics. That isn't me saying this, that's Albert Einstein
3. To realign and reorient the molecules together is to change polarity or to magnetize.
You're information is filled with a ton of half and partial truths. Yet still, even if what you were saying were true (which it isn't), spinning molecules or not, the point still stands. 5g isn't dangerous.
Hi @AngryTechGuy I'm a chemical physicist and I can say quite definitively that these interactions are not reflections, but rather due to the reorientation of water molecules in response to the oscillating electric field.
It is more useful in this instance to consider the wave nature of light, rather than the particle nature. Microwaves utilize wavelengths on the order of around 10 cm, which aren't small enough to directly interact with individual atoms in the manner that you're suggesting.
What is actually causing the heating is a feature in the absorption spectrum for water known as the "Debye peak". Here's an excerpt from an article by Dan Elton that covers this phenomenon:
"What is the physical source of this Debye peak? The Debye peak is due to cooperative relaxations of dipoles. Water molecules process an electric dipole moment, which is simply a positive charge cloud and negative charge cloud separated by a small distance. The positive charge is on the hydrogens and the negative charge is on the oxygen. The direction of the dipole is the direction of a vector pointing from the positive to the negative charge. When an electric field is applied, a dipole feels a force which acts to cause it to rotate and point in the same direction as the field.
When an alternating electric field is applied dipoles will try to rotate with the field, as the field changes direction. At low frequencies , the dipoles have no problem keeping up with the field, but at higher frequencies frictional interactions between molecules prevent the molecule’s dipoles from keeping up and their motion lags behind the field. When this happens some of the radiation is absorbed and heat is generated. At even higher frequencies, the dipoles have absolutely no chance of keeping up, and the electromagnetic radiation passes directly through with no absorption."
Finally, photons may be massless, but they do carry momentum. It is this momentum that is imparted to water molecules upon absorption that causes them to spin.
@@carlcalvinson Here's what I'll say: I'm an astronaut/rocket scientist working for SpaceX.
Don't believe the photon is absorbed by the electron? Fine.
But let it be known, a photon being passed between electron to atom is what keeps the electron in orbit around the atom.
But the larger point still stands, 5G isn't dangerous regardless of the pseudoscience spin youd like to put on it.
“It’s time for my next meal. One hamburger patty.”
The take that didn't make the cut:. "And more importantly, lads, all this electronic wizardry will shift our eating habits in the future such that we'll switch to eating more crappy food that will fatten us up and make us ill. Yes, these microwaves."
My friend thinks that the microwaves damage nutrition. I had to explain the science behind it. She wasn’t sold on my explanation.
She sounds confused. But realistically, most microwave dinners have very little nutrition compared to fresh food so it is a misconception that the microwave removes nutritional value of food. But, cooking food in any way can reduce the nutritional value of some foods so she is not completely wrong..
The comments: He describes it so even I can understand!
What he said: There's all sorts of electronic wizardry. There's a magnetron that produces microwaves
Boy, he didn't explain how it works at all
Did you know there's been no S.Connor's in any telephone books, world wide since 1991?
Nobody knows why....?
Why can’t we have a freezer that freezes things almost instantly
the microwave Looked Like A Tv Set
It's high powered WiFi/4G, there, saved you 5:50 of very entertaining Europeans.
Director "Cut" Presenter........spits out 'Patty'
Still in the days where people convinced themselves they could cook a meal in a microwave.
If this guy could imagine how I would be watching him on my TV in 2022. Welcome to the decline
I’ve made a hamburger in a microwave. Worst burger in my life
Meet James May's Australian Cousin
What year are these? Im going to guess early 80s?
+npadul30 Yes, this segment was recorded around 1983 at Channel 9, Adelaide. Deane
Why this is my recommended I need to sleep
I can't tell...is this guy living in the 80's and uploading videos? Or 80's themed videos?
This is a kids show from the 80's they are uploading old episodes to RUclips.
@@brianwalendy3735 Who are you talking to?
@@brianwalendy3735 we don't know if he isn't a little kid. Easy, mate.
@@andypendant4901 thank you, I forget there's kids on RUclips. Mine wouldn't be.
Quite literally a very well awarded kids program from Australia in the 70s and 80s.
did homeboy just miicrowave a burger for real?
Well done burger. Ouch.
Is that it then? I thought you were going to cook lots of globes.By the way nothing like the fried stuff.
Fried food is not healthy.
Incase, Microwave food doesn't have ionizing radiation.
Man forgot how big microwaves used to be.
Bloody horrible things, wife gone, micro wave as well, in with the charcoal Akoron. Life transforming peace, and great food at last.
No way I'm eating that burger
Can't say I ever microwaved a burger.....then again, the 80's were one big blur........