[gnarledmaw]

Even the microwaving thing was only available to maybe the youngest of the boomer unless their family was relatively well off.

The earliest microwaves were rather expensive, it wasnt like a toaster or crockpot. The first little cheap ones didnt do anything except heat a coffee cup. There were no products made for them until the 80s, tv dinners were still aluminum and Stouffers was still still doing the “boil in bag” offerings.

Functionality, price, and product offerings came together in the 80s to make it available to everyone that wanted one.

[higgmeister]

I'll never forget for the first time visiting the home of my future in-laws and seeing a state-of-the-arts Amana Touchmatic Radarange microwave oven 1967 model.   I thought they must be rich.   I'm sure they must have thought the same about my family though.

[FLT-bird]

Yep. We got a microwave in the 70s (we were early adopters) and there were no microwave TV dinners. I remember THE first thing was a reasonably decent mac and cheese somebody made for them. It took food companies at least until the 80s to start developing microwavable meals.

Also, we didn’t have TV remotes in the 70s....maybe the very late 70s. I distinctly remember arguing over whose turn it was to get up and change the channel...of the 4 channels we had in the 70s.

The writer has clearly mistaken Gen X for Boomers. We were the latch key kids. Gen X are not Boomers.