On Aug 17, 3:20 pm, T <
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> In article <[email protected]>,
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> > On Aug 13, 7:08 pm, dke3591 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Maybe I'm dreaming, but about the mid 1990's I vaguely remember a new
> > > cooking technology, actually a new type of oven being talked about, if
> > > not sold. Supposedly it used some kind of green lamp to cook food, and
> > > was supposedly similar to a convection oven, but more like microwave
> > > cooking speed, and I believe the manufacturer claimed that foods
> > > didn't get weird in there the same way some foods get in the microwave
> > > oven. I tried to Google this, but cannot find one shred of info about
> > > this oven. What happened to this technology? Thanks.
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> > I remember seeing it in an ad in the newpaper IIRC now, however that
> > person who showed it to me always read rags like the National
> > Enquirer, Star, etc., so maybe it was some bogus fluke or even a scam.
> > I know it wasn't an Easy Bake, it was an "adult" oven, and it said
> > something like the green rays are so intense and concentrated. I'm
> > thinking maybe some kind of infra-red deal where the light may have
> > appeared green for some reason (the military uses IR vision which
> > appears green). Whatever this is, it must have been nixed right away.
> > Thanks for the replies. Just curious if anyone else ever heard of
> > this. If this was during the 70's, I most definately would have been
> > high ;-)
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> Might it be this beast?
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> http://www.geappliances.com/products/introductions/advantium/
Thanks much T, That may be similar to what I remember reading about (I
never seen one), but the Advantium seems bigger. The one I read about
was supposedly the size of a household microwave or convection oven. I
think it did say it uses microwaves and light, so maybe the halogen
lamps were green. The Advantium doesn't state the color of the lamps,
but this may be a "big brother" to the one I read about, which also
may have been a real early model, and maybe at that time it used green
light for that model. I remember reading that the green light did the
cooking. I did happen to find this, when doing a Google newsgroup
search for green light ovens, closest I can find, but it was in a
forum about cell phones and being exposed to different type of
radiation. According to this poster, green light can be pretty nasty,
here's the relevant snippet:
>400,000 GHz = ~ green light
> 2.45 GHz = microwave oven frequency.
At 1 m with 100W radiation exposure to 2.45 Ghz you'd get cooked but
might
survive for a while. If that were 'green light' you'd be badly burnt
and
very quickly too - microwave will spread out for more then green light
amoung other factors.
Even a 1 watt green light source is considered dangerous - notice the
warnings on lasers of only a few milliwatts