1968: Is this the KITCHEN of the FUTURE? | Blue Peter | Past Predictions | BBC Archive

[@JMoruzzi]

"It's a prototype so it doesn't actually work, but don't worry, this is Britain in the sixties so the real one won't work either."

[@Revelian1982]

Ih woz med ih Chyna!

[@sh-ig9fm]

That's pretty mutch how eny 60s stuff was like no matter where in the world you lived.

[@freeman10000]

趙雷 from the future here! I am glad my kitchen in 2022 is nothing like the dystopian horror shown on 1968 Blue Peter.

[@Revelian1982]

Pedro Alba.

[@thedativecase9733]

Me too. It looks awful.

[@Revelian1982]

"They're not meant for HOMES, really. They're meant for hospitals, schools and HOMES." Great writing and presentation.

[@JMoruzzi]

I'm guessing she meant old peoples' homes. Blue Peter was renowned for not using autocues.

[@Revelian1982]

@@JMoruzzi So they took the non-Biden approach then..

[@bobloblaw9679]

@@Revelian1982 lol have you seen the compilations of trump unable to read from a teleprompter? they are both old men and need to go home.

[@richards9407]

Retirement and dementia homes.

[@richards9407]

Retirement and dementia homes ​@@Revelian1982

[@DavidRinkevich]

A kitchen incinerator for plastic cutlery...marvelous!

[@michaelkiddle3149]

😂

[@Larry]

Ordinary Wave ovens are the future of kitchens! But genius idea of them to have a rotating shelf that never stops, rather than have a button to start it, it just goes around forever, that's going to be great for electricity bills and having a whirring sound eminanating from your kitchen all night while you try to sleep :D

[@Ana_crusis]

That was only rotating all the time because it wasn't working properly as she pointed out, it being a prototype.

[@AtheistOrphan]

# ‘Let’s go round again’

[@onlypendants]

The could've used those rotating shelfs as fans to cool you in the kitchen 🤪

[@caezar55]

Remember in the "future" electricity would be too cheap to meter because of all those nuclear power plants everywhere...

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@caezar55 - Exactly. They also said the same of North Sea gas at the time.

[@radic888]

How wonderful: a future free of fresh fruit and vegetables!

[@Braddurs]

Hmmmm, I'd say my top three issues with this are; 1) If you built it against an external wall which had external access via a lock, what's to stop someone getting hold of the key or code and stealing and/or tampering with your food? Is the milk man going to carry 600 keys with him for each house on his route? 2) I was going to say 'Bread in the fridge' is a big issue but I guess that's optional. The tiny oven is probably big enough to brown off maybe two jacket potatoes? 3) Of course, the disposable cutlery, cups, plates and cooking trays. Absolutely astounding in this day and age that would be considered a great innovation. Easy to say this of course in hindsight.

[@laughlot]

A bin built into your external wall easy access for rats

[@gingerfellah5665]

absolutely I visited a high risz building from the 60's with a waste food chute and everyone got plagued with cockroaches. It was soon stopped.@@laughlot

[@whatsgoingon4815]

Wouldn’t have the worry of plastic cutlery and cup disposal these days most of it isn’t allowed.

[@Stoic-Col]

When I was a young boy, I thought Valerie Singleton was somewhere in my future! Oh dear, such a crush I had.

[@thedativecase9733]

Aww that's so sweet. I always found her a bit scary - even though my name is Valerie as well!

[@rocketrabble6737]

Sad to say it is unlikely she would have been interested even when you were older. I believe she 'batted for the other side' as they used to say.

[@gingerfellah5665]

That was always a rumour and in recent years she had to come out of the straight closet. John Noakes used to make jokes about all her various boyfriends!@@rocketrabble6737

[@markiliff]

Spectacularly awful, but done with such conviction!

[@davedogge2280]

Blue Peter showcasing the modern kitchen of the future that just looks like the galley on movie "Alien"...

[@PassiveAgressive319]

💯🫡

[@VictoryRRR]

Stunning . I hope it makes a comeback

[@smadaf]

Burnt plastic. A very good idea, a super idea: very neat and very hygienic.

[@aquarius4953]

And absolutely not dangerous. So healthy.

[@qxqp]

I've got one of those! It's called a fridge

[@icecreamforever]

Delivery people would need to carry around like 500 keys to complete their route.

[@smadaf]

How about a master key?

[@icecreamforever]

@@smadaf Great idea..... if your burgler!

[@scottishwildcat]

Maybe in those days, but Amazon offer a similar service now.

[@icecreamforever]

@@scottishwildcat Yup, there are camera's and an electronic trail. Then again Amazon are known around here for dumping packets on people's doorsteps and walking away.

[@rocketrabble6737]

They couldn't have got round that many with all the palaver.

[@count69]

Bonkers! I can't stop laughing!

[@Kuli24000]

Wait, if you miss your cereal, do you have to wait the full 2 minutes for it to rotate back into position? XD Either way, I have 2 improvements to the ideas in this video. 1. Leave your doors open. 2. Instead of an incinerator, just have a bonfire always going in your living room.

[@davidrenton]

or you could just save 2 minutes and have shepherds pie for breakie

[@Kuli24000]

@@davidrenton hahaha. Breakfast of champions.

[@mac7040]

Don't worry about the washing up, just burn plastic cutlery...

[@gooseface2690]

2022 has called, and apparantly plastic is not "disposable".

[@scottishwildcat]

It's very disposable. What happens to it after it's disposed of is the problem.

[@thedativecase9733]

Can i just add here that though this looks horrendous and I wouldn't have it if you payed me, by "and Homes" Valerie probably meant Nursing Homes, Convalescent Homes, Old People's Homes - those sort of Homes.

[@Matty112uk]

Who needs to recycle stuff in the future when you can just incinerate instead! 😂😂

[@matthewtrow5698]

This is so funny - who on earth came up with some of these bonkers ideas? There's zero fresh food - it's all frozen packaged crap, on a "rotating" dish. Everything is throw-away - and doesn't that really point out, in a way, the terrible direction we've gone in. The fact is, they were right on some counts - the frozen packaged crap, the single use packaging/eating products. Back then, it seemed the world was trying to get as far away as possible from nature, from "getting your hands dirty" - from just good old fashioned "work". The idea of anyone actually enjoying preparing and cooking food wasn't considered - that was just a terrible distraction from the "day job", because everyone is so frightfully busy. Everyone was frightfully busy being drawn into a societal nightmare ... and here we are, right in the thick of it. Our direction of travel was unclear back then - I really don't know why we couldn't see it, as a species, back then? Fascinating.

[@marymoffatt2060]

Looking back I remember that it was a great treat and a sign of affluence to have tinned and packet foods (their marketing on tv brainwashed us). I remember my jealousy of friends who had cereal for breakfast instead of the porridge we had to endure, heavily salted of course. Sometimes tea was sugar sandwiches and breakfast was hot milk with bread in it. They bleat about modern poverty but have no idea what it really is.

[@count69]

We are indeed at the thick end of the wedge!

[@thedativecase9733]

I can remember in the late 60s space race era we were told in the future we would take all our nutrients in tablet form. No pleasure, no taste. Why would anyone want that? But it was genuinely suggested by some "experts" that this was the world we would grow up in. Of course they also said we'd have another Ice Age by the year 2000.

[@count69]

@@thedativecase9733 We now know it was all deliberate

[@marymoffatt2060]

@@thedativecase9733 I think when they said no pleasure, no taste they were referring to Cadburys Smash.

[@Ana_crusis]

The most horrible idea I've ever seen for a kitchen no wonder we never heard of these. I'm sure absolutely nobody wanted one

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

🤣

[@Abo999]

They're not really for homes at the moment, they're for schools, hospitals and err... homes

[@Daisy-tl2lh]

one thing they never imaged was the aga cooker and vintage look kitchen!

[@whitesapphire5865]

They didn't need to imagine the AGA cooker, or Rayburn if you prefer. These heavy kitchen ranges have been around since long before I was born, some 64 years ago. Even by the standards of 1968, AGA, and other makes, were already old hat - very old hat, but even today, my Rayburn Supreme is still way better than anything else.

[@playtime.5526]

That was horrifying.

[@michaelwilson2340]

Does it also come with a warp drive feature as well?

[@dieseldragon6756]

Probably comes with a hard drive… 😋 „Come on Mabel, we have to get going! The showroom in London closes at 16:30, that’s just a couple of hours away, and we should’ve been south of Leicester by now!” 🚗💨🙃

[@duncanhine898]

I’m sold! Anybody know where I can get one? After 54 years it must be out of the prototype stage by now?!

[@paulhellawell5920]

That shepherds pie will be out of date.

[@thedativecase9733]

What here in the UK? You must be jokin' mate!

[@davesdigitaldomain]

this is a prototype model so it doesn't actually work, looks like they haven't invented a working on-off switch to stop the containers from rotating.

[@Lighting_Desk]

This is sure to take off.

[@lizard4916]

Who would have thought disposable plastics is a bad idea…

[@jboomhauer]

They're not for homes... They're for hospitals, schools, and homes 😬

[@Revelian1982]

She didn't vanish. She died.

[@Revelian1982]

@@davidpanton3192 Bodies decompose when the person dies.

[@thedativecase9733]

I think she meant Nursing Homes and that sort of "Home".

[@Abo999]

Ok so there is no upright space for storing milk. The milk bottle is on it's side, great until you pop the foil top...

[@explorer806]

😂

[@scottishwildcat]

Suddenly craving a Vesta paella.

[@thedativecase9733]

Or a Vesta curry with raisins in it?

[@moominmay]

This micro wave here is vey vey fast 😄

[@videoeditorbloke]

"Of course they're really not meant for homes at the moment - they're really for places like hospitals, schools and homes." Er... okay...

[@AtheistOrphan]

I think with the second ‘homes’ she meant old people’s homes and the like. But that’s live television for you!

[@hughjarrse]

Retirement and dementia homes.

[@Revelian1982]

@@hughjarrse Retirement and dementia homes.

[@smadaf]

Yes, we noticed-and we knew what she meant.

[@Revelian1982]

@@smadaf Retirement and dementia homes.

[@jdm65]

Probably not, but Val and Noaksie could probably sell it to me. Happy days.

[@Revelian1982]

No, this is Blue Peter. Happy Days came out like 10 years after this and was in colour.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

Kitchen brought to you by Play school😂😂😂

[@realnoahsimpson]

started well and became increasing bizarre

[@robertbilling6266]

I saw that prototype at the Design Centre a year or so later.

[@williamscott2703]

More,please,,,,great,too,look,back

[@afm62]

Not a single piece of fresh fruit or vegetable in sight! 😂

[@msbo5171]

I want one! (With biodegradable cutlery and cups!)

[@fidelcatsro6948]

im glad this didnt come to fruition, we trying to save the world today from using all these disposable items which end up in the sea as microplastics

[@tbird-z1r]

That's why you incinerate it. Didn't you watch the documentary?

[@Springamatul]

I don’t think this ever took on. And we are trying to discourage plastic packages. But good try back then. I wouldn’t have fancied this though. 😀

[@indieshack4476]

"this is a prototype model so it doesn't actually work" - lol - that would be a "mockup" not prototype

[@Talboy-p4e]

Golden year's back then 1960 My time machine going back England was great back then ❤❤ Great tv Great flims and tv dramas back then 1960 Great stars always every time Great people Great inventions Made England ❤ And great children happiness. Being innocent ❤ Street wise tal........

[@marcse7en]

54 years later ...... I somehow don't think this is going to catch on? 👎🤣 ...... Last time I looked, the food in my cupboard WASN'T SPINNING! 👎🤣 ...... You could die of STARVATION waiting for your food to come around! 👎🤣

[@flyingphobiahelp]

So much for that. Plus, not very environmentally-friendly with the plastics

[@compostjohn]

Mmmm, let's start making lots of waste plastic.......... and then dumping it in the atmosphere. That really caught on, didn't it?

[@onlyme219]

sadly it did and still today

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@onlyme219 yep, just at large “waste to energy” plants instead of in the home…

[@danielwalker26]

Ah yes. One time use everything and then you burn it all.

[@SiskinOnUTube]

They're not really for homes at the moment. They're meant for hospitals schools and homes.

[@scottishwildcat]

Ah, give 'em a break... they were going out live, and Biddy Baxter made them learn their scripts off by heart.

[@SiskinOnUTube]

@@scottishwildcat I used to watch it all the time. John Noakes was a hero.

[@terry9325]

The only thing we got from this video was the microwave ,it just goes to show how so called experts can get the future so wrong .

[@temparalflux914]

I've always wanted an incinerator in my kitchen.

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Well most of that didn't happen thank goodness - it looks absolutely soulless. They almost got online shopping but not quite. No recycling of course but does that actually happen anyway.

[@flanflinger37]

I agree, sounds absolutely dreadful.

[@hc3932]

Val is very attractive.

[@roderickmain9697]

Its not exactly correct 55 years on but some of it is close. Of course, they didnt say how you would order food to refill your supplies and they didnt really know about how toxic the fumes would be from burning plastic. But deliveries to your door, tick. Recycling those paper plates and tinfoil containers, tick. Overal design aesthetic - not my taste.

[@RobCCTV]

Even at the time, all of that (with the exception of the microwave) would have been seen to be a joke. Absolutley pointless thoughtless useless mockup.

[@robinvanags912]

Yes - but I remember it publicised elsewhere (maybe in a magazine). At the time, I think the eating arrangements for astro/cosmonauts and '2001: A Space Odyssey' were on the minds of many.

[@Revelian1982]

@@robinvanags912 I remember my housemate Dave purchased the HAL 9000 refrigerator back then. State of the art. But it wouldn't open when Dave asked for ice cream, because he was deemed overweight on the scan. The fridge said, "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you do that."

[@RobCCTV]

@@Revelian1982 Ha. Singular.

[@ruthbashford3176]

It didn't catch on!

[@dieseldragon6756]

I get the impression progress worked a little differently back then, but did the inventors of this stop to consider that - Instead of throwing away these expensive „One use” plates and cutlery - One could have these made of more durable materials, ceramics and stainless steel for example, and they could simply be washed and dried after use, and then put away for later use at a subsequent meal? 🍽 When I stopped on a trip from the 41st century to look at the World as it was in 2015 this seemed to be a very popular idea, and much more sustainable than the methods being proposed in 1965. 👍🏽 What a pity the UK experienced such a critical failure in its democratic processes only a year later. Their exclusion and subsequent intervention by NATO wasn’t at all nice, but it was most urgently needed…

[@johno4521]

Even the oven looks plastic!

[@SikanderG]

Disposable cutlery and plates/cups is a bad idea.

[@Ken.-]

Eating off of paper plates because your too lazy to clean up. Trailer park vision of the future.

[@scaredyfish]

Sustainability not really on their radar, was it?

[@kaitlyn__L]

Modern manufacturing will produce everything we need in endless abundance, and nothing will ever stop it! 🙃

[@whatsgoingon4815]

Iced water when its hot in the summer. Hang on a minute are you telling me the weather was hot in 1968, and there’s me thinking heat in summer was a recent phenomenon due to climate change 🤣🤣

[@stephenhowell5611]

Heat records being broken seem to be more common around the world now, and more forest fires.

[@whatsgoingon4815]

@@stephenhowell5611 No it’s not more common, there are just more news outlets looking for a story. The summer of 76 hasn’t been matched since so don’t let anyone fool you into thinking the weather is any different than it’s ever been.Just look at the start of this summer, atrocious, yet when we had one day touching 40c a couple of years ago you’d think we were heading for the end of the world. It’s all cobblers.

[@stephenhowell5611]

@@whatsgoingon4815 It's not solely the UK that is affected.

[@whatsgoingon4815]

@@stephenhowell5611 Just take a look at the climate predictions made since the 60’s, see how many came true and then realise that the same sort of people are making today’s predictions. Al Gore is a good place to start.

[@stephenhowell5611]

@@whatsgoingon4815 It was warmer recently than in 1976, its measurable, they are not predictions. Its getting warmer and bringing more volatile weather - torrential rain/droughts in many parts of the world.

[@maxresdefault_]

Did they put bread in the fridge?

[@Daracdor]

I`d Buy That For a Dollar !

[@Revelian1982]

The Uzi 9mm.

[@Daracdor]

@@Revelian1982 I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots and Your Motorcycle ....... Give them to me !

[@rovercoupe7104]

It’s the first time we’ve heard of it, so it didn’t catch in. M.

[@SimonMiles-m8l]

This was so ' I want that, I want that '... Now it's ' What a load of crap, what a load of crap '

[@onlypendants]

Kitchen unit made from plastic & metal... disposable cutlery made from plastic...no wonder we are now facing such a huge plastic issue...our thought process has been corrupted over the years & it is not something that has happened today. 😔

[@michaeltimothycole]

Highly unlikely first of all,Pissy underwear Hangar 17 is being blocked by record company copyright claims and as it was a variety show featuring many different acts.Theres copyrights copyright.

[@Spookieham]

What are you havering about?

[@michaeltimothycole]

@@Spookieham You've never heard of it

[@ashleydawson5070]

Hold on love, just waiting for the fish fingers to come 'round again...

[@onlyme219]

microwaves in 68 wow never knew they where that old

[@-_James_-]

Developed in the 1920s, microwaves were first demonstrated for cooking food at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

[@onlyme219]

@@-_James_- Wow

[@kaitlyn__L]

Fun fact, the first radar generators were accidental microwaves. People noticed feeling a bit warm standing next to them, and later that it could melt a chocolate bar! I wonder how much shielding there even was.

[@juanlauda2300]

Good grief.

[@MICHGO1]

NO SINK?

[@photosphotos]

Lmao 😂

[@OsbornIOW]

And nobody ever bought one?

[@Skizzores]

Incineration of those plastic cutlery with cause a bit of a smell

[@jackbrown6788]

I looks like one of those toy ones for 6 year olds. Imagine being really hungry and waiting for that food carousel to bring your food around. Be quicker to order a Chinese.

[@72ecwc]

Did Noakesy "brown" Val?

[@patricksmith4424]

A time when the BBC was the best broadcaster on the planet, blue Peter being a classic example. It is now the worst.

[@StevePerfect-e9e]

Don't tell me I'm the only who ever bought one of these.

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

I need milkman and grosseryman for that. Class divide.

[@verribarry]

The incinerator for burning plastics....made of plastic.

[@adrianschapendonk5912]

Thunderbirds style…

[@finalcionide]

Reminds me of fallout 4 before the bomb

[@dereknaut]

This makes me want an incinerator now....

[@buxvan]

Reminds me of those cheap plastic bathroom cabinets you used to see in caravans. Flimsy rubbish.

[@dannydougin3925]

Hilarious... The British pronounce Aluminum funny...

[@gingerfellah5665]

It's the way it is spelled "aluminium" not "aluminum".

[@evertondod]

ashes to ashes

[@bazza5699]

alan partridge was alive even in 1968 lol

[@BrayTube]

Partridge gave his first 'broadcast' in 1955, at a maternity ward in King's Lynn, '..delivered to an audience of no more than eight. That still equated to an audience share, in the delivery room at least, of a cool 100%.'

[@paulashe61]

Start of the space age convenience

[@michaeltimothycole]

all 32 episodes of HangarR 17

[@thatguyswavomeer]

An enviromental disaster of sorts.

[@Melody-mu6nk]

No thank you! lol

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

You don’t put aluminum foil In microwave.😂 So stupid!

[@thurstonhowell3569]

What a hideous idea.

[@carmelhughesparolya899]

Looks and sounds awful 🙃

[@davidhall7648]

1960s insanity 😂😂😂😂

[@workonesabs]

What a silly idea! Inventive but impractical...

[@slartybartfast6868]

LOLOLOLOL. It didnt work out that way.

[@simonjefferytaylor]

Oh dear.... net zero? 😂

[@clivebaxter6354]

They always had a filthy dog or two hanging about