With Panasonic Inverter Microwave Ovens, you'll have well-tempered power to cook with ease, speed, and quality. Inverter technology takes advantage of multiple power levels, and maintains the best colour, shape, texture, and flavors of your food. Thanks to evenly distributed levels of microwave energy, foods will no longer undercook in the center and have hard, overcooked edges. Panasonic has perfected their Inverter Turbo Defrost process, which allows you to defrost foods even faster. Inverter Turbo Defrost technology is an advanced microwave process using the Inverter low-power delivery feature. It distributes microwave energy with the most appropriate combination of regularity and irregularity. Panasonic One Year Warranty
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Overall positive. some minor annoyances.
Comment: I'll agree with most of what the previous reviewers have noted. It's a powerful machine that heats foods very evenly. It looks good, and it's a decent size on the inside without taking up too much counter (or under-cabinet) space. I think the drawbacks are 1) the display (I'm 5'10" and the microwave is on the counter - I can't read it at all without ducking down to counter height) and 2) the time increments -- you can only set times in increments of ten seconds. This is probably fine for many things, but for small quantities of food I think it's important to have more precise control. I just end up watching it like a hawk and stopping it manually.
Customer Rating: Summary: Mine died too!! Almost caught fire...
Comment: As with other reviewers we had our for about a year and a half... then it started buzzing loudly and what looked like a bolt of electricity flashing inside - scared us, thought it would catch fire. Now there's a hole in the cover where the magnatron is - not safe time to buy a new one... bottom line avoid Panasonic!
Customer Rating: Summary: Too powerful!
Comment: What we noticed right out of the box was that this oven requires that you cook at less time than any suggested recipe. Once, (following times indicated on a small box of Stouffer's lasagna) I ended up with a food dish that more resembled a roofing shingle.
I'm not sure I really like the knob timer setting either. There's no precise timer setting. After 1-10 it jumps all increments by 5 seconds.
Aside from the above complaints, the oven does function as expected. The turntable moves freely and food is cooked evenly.
Customer Rating: Summary: Good value
Comment: An excelent little microwave. Unless you need a larger one, or convection, etc., I can't think of any reson to get a more expensive model.
Customer Rating: Summary: Great...then it up and died
Comment: I bought this to replace a Panasonic microwave I had for about 10 years. The old one still worked, but I wanted the stainless steel look to match my other updated appliances. The dial took some getting used to, but in the end is more convenient than punching in a time. The display seems a little dim if you look at it from anything other than straight on. The unit worked great until about two weeks ago (about 16 months of ownership). I was just heating some soup for lunch and heard it shut off...no beeps indicating "done". I thought maybe I had tripped a breaker- nope. The unit just plain died. Of course I had just sold the old Panasonic at a garage sale about two months ago. Not sure I'd buy another Panasonic after my experience with this one.
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