Panasonic NE-1054F Countertop Commercial Microwave Oven Stainless Steel with 10 Programmable Memory and Touch Screen Control, 0.8 Cu. Ft, 1000W

Replaced a 5+ year old Panasonic that had heavy use daily. On some weekends with family over at our house, this is used to cook several 1 pound bacon packages, which repeatedly runs the unit 10 minutes at a time. Definitely the stress from longer operating times are harder on the microwave generating "magnetron tube" and electronics. Most other namebrand household duty microwaves lasted us only a year or so. The reason we love this panasonic inverter/vari-wave: It uses an inverter, which is like an accelerator pedal in a car. It lowers the output power by reducing the output of microwave energy. Most other standard brands just cycle 100% power using an "on and off" method. (at a 50% setting - half of the time 100% power is turned on, then half of the time zero power off - in a 10 to 15 second window that repeats to vary the power over time). Imaging driving your car this way; pressing the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor to hit 100 mph, then coasting back to zero and repeating again. You may average 50 mph, (like a 50% setting) but the repeated cycling on and off tears up your vehicle, simarly the 100% to zero then back on to 100% cycle on your food in a microwave is not the same as food cooked in a Panasonic inverter controlled at a reduced power over time. The turbo defrost works really well. You select type of meat, weight and load food into the microwave and hit start. It follows a programmed power setting that starts off high, then reduces, and beeps to remind you to turn (or flip over) the food item abouth 1/2 way if you choose to do so. Or you can ignore and let it continue to defrost. By comparison, this model does not overheat and cook the outer edges like other brands of microwaves have in our experience. If you ever have foods that are rated for lower wattage microwave, like 1,000 watts, you can run this Panasonic on a power setting of 8 and perfectly cook your food to match the manufacturer's test kitchen results. Or you can let it cook on the full ~1200 watt power setting but definitely at a reduced timer setting. When using the pre-programmed Popcorn button, you select the ounce size of bag you are popping and hit start. As others have pointed out - you may find that it has burnt your popcorn. BUT the next time you cook popcorn, after you press the Popcorn button, select your size of bag - THEN before you hit start, you can adjust the time shorter or longer using the "More/Less" button to adjust to your preferences. This allows those who like slightly burnt to add more time. Most of us wanting that just right cooked bag find that using less time pops a perfect bag. Be aware that Popcorn cook time varies slightly among brands of popcorn. The Sensor Reheat works extremely well, considering it does not use a probe. The "quick minute" button allows you to place food in the microwave, press this button once, then hit start. Also nice feature- while it is cooking, let's say that you realize the cheese is not melting, so you need to add more time. You could wait for the timer to run out and then restart then oven for another minute. But you also can hit the "quick minute" while it is cooking and it adds one minute to the running cook time. Our primary uses for a microwave are reheating foods, defrosting frozen items, cooking bacon (on special microwave bacon trays lined with paper towels, be sure the bacon is not flat, but humped in the middle off of the paper so it doesn't stick to paper), melting butter on LOWER power level, & boiling water

I like making chips in my microwave and my old microwave could not do it with the chip maker (it would cut off and have to cool down since it took so long). I got this since it seemed to be the largest wattage microwave I could find for consumers. Plus it was not that expensive! I have tried out some of the features of this microwave (it has a lot and some I might not ever use, but the Sensor feature is great and I will be using it). I put in a potato (russet) and chose the sensor cook for potato. It started up and in 2.75 minutes the potato was done (the microwave stopped; it says sensor for a while and than it will put a countdown when it is about done). The potato was delicious and cooked perfectly (the skin just came right off and the inside was just perfect!!!). I tried boiling water to see how long it would take. It took about 3 minutes to get 3 cups of water (testing in a Pyrex measuring cup) to 200 degrees (I measured with a thermometer). Also, once the boil started it kept a rapid boil and did not lose the boil or boil over (I used it yesterday to boil some rice (the rice in a bag) in a measuring cup for quick rice!) My chips are one of the toughest things to cook in a microwave (it is chip maker that slices the potato (or apple!) and you put it on the trays and microwave. My old microwave could only do one tray at a time (you can stack up to three trays supposedly), and it took about 5 minutes for each tray and it would overheat and stop working. I tried this microwave with all three trays and it only took 3.5 minutes to cook all three trays perfectly! The chips were all crisp and cooked perfectly and knocked off 12 minutes of microwaving that I normally had to do! Also, the microwave had no problem and did not cut off or anything! The microwave is humongous! You could fit a normal size turkey in it (the kind that you buy at the supermarket in the white bags) - I do not think you would cook a turkey in a microwave, but I guess you could defrost... I would not, but I just wanted to give you an idea of cavity size. The nice size makes it suitable for any tasks and you do not have to worry about if it will fit. The tray turns nicely and seems to turn faster than my older unit. The fan on the side blows out warm (not hot) air, so I think it can be near another appliance (I have it next to my fridge) without causing any issues (I have room so it can breathe). The unit is pushed against the wall behind it, and that helps with the door, which is a tad hard, but not that bad (harder to open/close than my old one). However, with the wall behind it you do not notice this and pushing the button and closing the door do not feel any different than other units. In the settings you can set a reminder beep (this one beeps a single beep ever 30 seconds (I think, I did not count)). I turned this on since I sometimes forget, I also can hear the beeps in the other room so something that takes a long time can be left and I can go watch some TV and hear it when it goes off (assuming the TV is not too loud). The beep seems normal to me. The microwave is elegant and the picture does not do it justice. The buttons are silver toned and look really classy. The door screen does have lines going across, but you can still see the food in it when you are cooking. The display is green and can be seen easily, I will admit that it is a deeper set display, and my cabinets are at my waist and standing next to the microwave does hide the top of the display (for example a 7 might look like a 1), but if you look down a little or stand back you can see it fine (if you are shorter you would not have this problem (this also varies based on your cabinet height). The display also shows the power and is really nice and easy to understand (it does talk a lot (display scrolls through text), you can change how fast it goes through text if you want by going to settings. Also, the keep warm feature is awesome (sensor is cooler, but this comes in a close second), it allows you to keep food warm while working on other dishes, which is super useful. In the end I am very happy with this microwave. It is the best microwave I have ever owned! It is super powerful (I do have to shorten time for microwave dinners, which is OK), and is super large. It was a great buy and just works amazingly! The features are great and the Keep Warm and Sensor are so great that I will be using them quite often. In the past I never used defrost, since it never worked that well, however, I will definitely be using it on this unit since it works great, so on days when I forget to set out the meat I can just defrost it in here and not worry about trying to find something else for dinner! I highly recommend this microwave! It is super great and works amazingly! It is truly the best microwave I have ever owned!

I was in a hurry to replace my broken microwave and living on the edge of nowhere my round trip drive time is 3 hours to do any brick and mortar shopping. Add actual shopping time and this never takes less than half a day. After determining the replacement parts to repair my broken machine took me well along to the cost of a new one I started shopping. I am an Amazon fan. Right to my door and I recently added Prime. So very glad I did that finally. This microwave was here in 2 days. Free shipping too. I have as little patience with online shopping as I do going into the stores. So.... when I wanted to get a micro quickly I started the search online. This one matched my criteria and it was one of only a few that did. I wanted at least 1200 watts and larger square foot capacity inside the machine than many other micro's offer. And the same size overall so it would fit where the old one lived. No wiggle room there. Most others I found did not have the size or power of this one or the ratings. And in the new age of products that always impress me as nothing more than cheap junk it is no surprise ratings are so mixed making it hard to make a decision to buy. In the short time we have been using it we have had no problems. But comparing it to the one it replaced I took a star away and maybe should have taken two. The basics I did with the old one are not able to be selected on the panel as I am accustomed to doing. This annoys me. I can keep the users guide handy and retrain myself but do not understand why I have to. I am thoroughly fed up with upgrades and updates and improvements to things I use that in reality make them harder, more complicated and time consuming to use and require retraining for the more complicated operation. I do not consider that an improvement and it has become a pet peeve. That little rant over with. The sensor reheat and sensor cook functions are new tech for me and I do like them. No more guessing times and power levels. And what use I have made of them has turned out fine. But compared to the last one this is not easy no brainer button pushing. And where it loses the stars. I cannot look at the panel and select food and function and it will do what I need as the last one did. There are always more steps and button pushing. It is currently displaying in French. I apparently did not know what I was doing when I was pushing buttons. Keeping the user guide in reach is a must. So to wrap this up and be of help to you I will say: This was the best I found in this size at this price point. I do like the new technology it uses. It certainly improves cooking with one. Much better results. I have not used the defrost which is also new tech to me. No reason to think it won't work as stated and is better tech than the old. You can program multi functions at the beginning so it can be left and will adjust the cook time and power levels on its own. No need to tend to it as we used to have to do. The user guide was concise and I have had no trouble using it. I have found an answer for every question I have had so far. A great micro and I am happy with my choice and the new ( to me) technology it has. Really does give great results with less fuss. If you are shopping for a micro, no matter how you use one at home, buy this one and you are done looking. I really believe you will not regret it.

My first purchase from Warehouse Deals was a B&D handheld vacuum that failed to charge...returning it was, of course, inconvenient, but not difficult. I understand that the products available through this program are returns, and that you take a chance in exchange for the savings. When my old microwave began to get senile, I thought I'd give Warehouse Deals a second chance. I chose an oven with the features I wanted and for which the product description indicated the ONLY problem was minor cosmetic damage. First, the product arrived with the glass turntable loose in the microwave cabinet; the styro ring normally used to isolate and protect the big hunk of GLASS was on top of the oven, outside the cabinet, and it was broken into several pieces. Because the turntable was loose inside the oven, the turntable pivot ring was broken, but there w a s no other apparent damage. Finally, the inside of the oven still had food dried on the turntable and the top of the cabinet...and not just a little. What does this mean to you? It means that whoever Amazon asked to inspect the return at their warehouse really phoned it in, and if you're considering a Warehouse Deals purchase, the product descriptions are not to be trusted. Since I had saved a lot by ordering a warehouse return, and since I knew what a pain it would be to repack and return the unit, I cleaned it, repaired the broken ring, and tested the oven out. It worked, and it warmed and cooked much better than my 15-year-old Sharp. At first. Now, however--a month after the return window has closed, of course--the Start button has started to fail intermittently, and the rate of failure is increasing. So, if I want to get any use out of this pig, I'm going to have to find a repair shop, and the bargain will end up costing more than a new oven would have. A tough lesson, but I've learned: you may have better luck, but no more Amazon Warehouse Deals for me. Luckily, I hadn't disposed of my old nuker yet. 092414 Follow-up. The beast finally died, and I recycled it...could not be even bothered to take it in for repair. The interlock in the door was so misaligned that I actually had to pull the door down and reposition it AFTER I pushed the start button and had to hope the thing made a connection. Again, the problem was not with the product, it was with it's beaten state from Warehouse Deals: I would recommend the NN-H765BF model...the inverter technology really works well; I'm putting it back on my wishlist, and I hope to purchase a NEW one later this year.

Buying a new appliance is always a challenge. Which brands give you the most features for the best price. How reliable are they, and what type of warranty do they carry? Microwaves are a particularly difficult appliance to buy, as there are distinct differences in types of microwaves available,counter top. over-oven, straight microwave, microwave /convection combo, with a browning element or without, food probes, as well as different price points, you get the picture. Yes, this little appliance can be challenge. We recently replaced an eighteen year old Sharp microwave with a new microwave. In doing so, we did the usual research online and in the store. After several days of research, we found that one can buy a very good microwave, without breaking the bank. We opted for a counter top model, similar to our old one in size. We wanted to replace it with one that was large enough to be used not only to reheat meals, but also to cook meals in quickly. We decided not to get a combination convection and microwave oven, much more expensive to buy and maintain, as more things have to be fixed if something goes wrong. Besides, our regular oven does an excellent job of baking things quickly and efficiently. After we settled on the size and type of microwave we wanted, we looked at the various brands, we compared features available and settled on the Panasonic NH765BF Full Size 1.6 Cubic Feet 1250 Watt Microwave oven, very reasonably priced, $117 including free shipping from Amazon. It has a quick and easy learning curve to operate it, great features such as inverter technology so food cooks, heats and defrosts evenly, (including a turbo defrost feature), Timer feature(kitchen timer/stand time/ delay start), sensor cook feature, sensor reheat feature, a popcorn feature and more. We have used our microwave for a little over a month now, and we have found the features on this oven to be both easy to use and time saving. The Panasonic warranty also was a selling feature. This microwave oven enjoys a one year parts and labor, (except the Magnatron) and a five year MAGNATRON parts, one year labor warranty. This is a better warranty than other microwave brands, which are usually only one year. We purchased it through Amazon.com, where we found the best price, prompt delivery, and excellent service as usual.

We owned this microwave for 28 months when it stopped working (it would run for just a few seconds before turning off, while expelling a horrible smell of burned semiconductors). I pulled the cabinet off to investigate the problem (needed a torx security bit to do this) - if you attempt this, don't forget to unplug the microwave first. I very cautiosly plugged the microwave back in (keeping my distance from the exposed electronics while wearing safety glasses), and started it... the inverter (p/n F606Y6G00CP) was smoking and melting part of it's plastic housing. I have opted to scrap the microwave versus trying to replace this $75+ part. Before buying this microwave I would recommend googling "panasonic inverter problem". As far as I can tell, these Panasonic ovens have a chronic quality problem. The science behind the inverter results in a lighter microwave oven, meaning cheaper to produce and ship. My recommendation is to avoid this oven even though the feature set seems compelling, and reviewers (mostly who just bought the oven) are giving it high ratings. On the plus size, we loved the large size and the high wattage rating - foods cooked quicker in this microwave than our previous 1000 watt oven. We used the sensor cooking for 3.5 oz popcorn bags, and it worked fairly well, leaving only 20 or so old maids in the bag (however my advice is to follow the directions on the popcorn bag instead of using the sensor cooking - keep track of how many seconds are really needed, then just key that in for future bags). Also, the turbo defrost did a decent job in defrosting hamburger evenly and quickly. This microwave did disrupt our Wi-Fi (802.11g) network. We frequently stream video wirelessly and the microwave would disrupt the signal, pausing the streaming. The scarey thing is my wife and I could stand together in front of the microwave, blocking the disruption (one of us alone apparently doesn't offer enough resistance to whatever signals the microwave is emitting). As much as I liked this microwave, I would not buy another Panasonic with inverter technology. I cannot give a product that has known reliability issues more than 2 stars (and am probably generous there). I hope others who have bought this microwave have better luck than we had.

Over the years, I've owned a few microwave ovens. Big, small, underpowered, enough RF emissions to fry a cat at 50 yards - you name it, I've owned it. But boy howdy does this one purely rock. First off, it's black. And not just black, but BLACK. I've seen grand pianos with far less lustrous finishes. If it weren't for the fact that its darkness practically sucks in every photon in the kitchen (in turn making it difficult to see), it would have a lacquered appearance to rival Japanese furnishings. I did once manage to catch just a glimpse of its depth, and the experience was not unlike seeing through both space and time. Aesthetics aside, this sucker cooks - and I literally mean *cooks*. In the space of twenty scant seconds, it will heat a tepid cup of tea from near-room temperature to a level of scalding fury strong enough to send you to the emergency room for skin grafts on the roof of your mouth. Further, it can also take the freshly-unearthed foodstuffs of primitive peoples from the permafrosts of Siberia and thaw them with an efficiency that can only be described as purely nuclear in nature - and I must admit that this is absolutely fantastic for dinner parties where eight-thousand-year-old bear meat has been put upon the menu. I do have my concerns that its epic powers may have actually been responsible for a rift in the space/time continuum that led to the Tunguska Incident in 1913, but as yet that remains only a suspicion. It also has a rotating turntable and LCD display that does stuff, which are neat to watch. There are a great many benefits to purchasing this microwave oven beyond those which I have outlined here. Unfortunately, to reveal them in this tawdry of a forum would be a terrible disservice to their magnificence, so I can only implore you to purchase this microwave and discover them for yourself. Trust me: this is a voyage of wonder, excitement, and steaming Bagel Bites that you will never regret having undertaken. Do it. Do it now, and never look back. Take that first step on the road to freedom from inferior kitchen appliances, and you'll truly wonder how you ever heated sauerkraut in any other massively-inferior device once this one is in your possession. Your life *will* be better for it.

My current oven/microwave combo found me short on funds to get my microwave fixed. It would have cost me about $400 to have my old unit serviced and repaired. To save on the money for the time being, I looked around on Amazon.com for a good unit I could use in the kitchen. I've always loved the Panasonic name, even when I was a boy in the 1960's. It's always been a reliable company, full of compitent engineers. This unit is easy to figure out when you recieve it. I only had to refer to the manual for a few minor things, otherwise the rest was easy enough to understand. What I especially love about the unit is the one minute setting, where you can stack up single minutes at a time, on the clock, before cooking. I also love the rotating table for even heating. A must feature with any microwave these days in my experience over a life time using these units. I also love the "Power level" button, which has 10 settings. It's easy to adjust down to power 5 and put frozen butter in a pyrex dish in the unit, set it for a few minute, while it is thawed for me to use with any recipe that requires things like melted butter. Great for the holidays when making stuffing for the bird. It's also great for thawing out coconut oil that hardens on the shelf, when I'm doing baking that requires the oil for the recipe. Over all, I have no complaints about this unit. It's also fairly light weight and at my age, I'm not the athlete I use to be in my youth. I've easily fallen in love with this unit and its ease of use. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a good, reliable unit to help them in the kitchen. Bonapotite

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