Panasonic Microwave Oven NN-SN686S Stainless Steel Countertop/Built-In with Inverter Technology and Genius Sensor, 1.2 Cubic Foot, 1200W

Great value at this price.
I’ve always been a fan of Panasonic microwaves since they brought Inverter technology into the line up. I tried a Breville unit at twice the price do to reviews…. that thing was overpriced junk. Died in less than 2 years. So back to Panasonic. It works flawlessly, it is a bit loud if things like a dishwasher running bother you, but it has tons of power and heats evenly and is sleek and easy to wipe down.Not a Panasonic issue, but I wish I had looked for a model with a stainless interior only as my kids can often forget the splatter shields. Hopefully the enameled finish holds up well. Time will tell on that. Hope this helps.

Only One Flaw Keeps It From Being Perfect
I was looking for an inverter style microwave that was powerful, feature rich, and did it’s job. This hit on all of those points and except for one flaw would be a perfect 10/10.Pros:- Microwaves food well. I know this should be obvious but with some of the reviews I’d read I thought I should make this clear. It does its job well with no uneven heating.- Sense reheat works awesome. Coming from a microwave that didn’t have this feature, this makes warming up food easy. No more guess work or babysitting the food while it reheats. Put it in, press Sense Reheat, start it and walk away. You’ll come back to fully warmed up food. It errors on the side of too warm than too cold so you don’t have to worry about those odd cold bites. Just be sure not to cover it.- Cleans super easy. Whatever material or coating they are using is perfect for wiping out any mess. Compared to my old microwave this is world’s better. You won’t realize how awesome this is until you try wiping dry spaghetti sauce from the top of a microwave. I could never go back one without this coating.- Ability to turn off sound. As someone who has a toddler who naps/sleeps in the room next to the kitchen this is a huge feature for me. No more loud beeps whenever you’re pressing buttons and no more alarm going off whenever it’s done.- Build quality feels solid and I have no worries about its longevity. This wasn’t the cheapest microwave but it feels like it hit the sweet spot between features and quality. You could spend a lot more on a microwave that wouldn’t work any better.So with all these positives what is the flaw that single handedly takes an entire star off the rating?The most annoying flaw:After heating something up and checking it, if you need to add additional time you can’t just press the number keys. Your options are, use the 30 second button to add time in 30 second blocks, press the add time button then hit the number keys, press clear then hit the number keys, or wait 1 minute for it to lose its memory and then press the number keys.Now let me be clear, I understand why they have the additional time button. It’s so you can add time without having to go through re-entering all those additional settings again. But the amount of times I actually use the advanced heating options vs just throwing food in there and hitting it full blast aren’t even close. I’ve had this microwave for 2 months and I haven’t once set the power level or used it to make dough or bake a cake or any ofhat other stuff.But you know what I do basically every single day? Throw my kids food in there and then have to keep checking it to make sure it’s not too hot then adding more time. And every single time I run it for 10 seconds then have to check it, when I need to add more time guess what? I can’t just press the number keys and hit go. I’ve got to hit additional time then 10 seconds.Doesn’t sound like a big deal right? It only adds an extra second of time. Sure, you’re right, except I’ve got 20+ years of microwave muscle memory built in telling me once you open the door to check the food you can go right back to pressing the number keys and hitting go. So every time I use it I naturally close the door and then go right to pressing numbers only to remember, “oh that’s right they’ve added an additional extra unnecessary step before allowing me to add additional time”.I don’t care about giving us an extra minute of time after heating up food to decide if we want those same settings and to add additional time. I want to check my food, press numbers, and hit start.I’m sure some engineer got paid a lot of money to add more features to a microwave that wasn’t needed simply to check off something on a checklist somewhere but they sacrificed flow of use for it.Yes it’s a minor thing. Yes it doesn’t take away from the overall product. Yes it still pisses me off every time I need to add an extra 10 seconds to something. Yes I’m removing an entire star because of this.

The Inverter model we highly recommend
This is our second Panasonic microwave. The first one lasted several years and had to be replaced. We bought one we thought was superior but what a mistake. It was 2 years of regret, 1000 watts and slow as could be. We finally decided just to just give it away and buy a new Panasonic Inverter. I researched it for a couple of weeks. The reviews and the inverter heating convinced me this was the one we wanted. I think it’s top of the line, 1200 watts of just plain perfection. The “sensor cook” (reheat) button is great, we reheated a dinner plate full of spaghetti and sauce. We were skeptical and wanted to check it but we resisted. When the time was up the food was heated EVENLY, no cold spots or dried out food. Then the water test, 1:30 for water to boil in a coffee cup full of cold tap water. Thumbs up! And at last the popcorn test. 3 different weights of the bags to choose from. We used the option for our size bag, perfect popcorn, nothing burned. I cooked a bowl of instant oatmeal-it came out perfect and in less time than the box directions. I love the “quick 30” second button. That’s all it takes to reheat a cup of coffee. Need more time hit it again. If I had one thing to be critical over it’s the light on the inside. Pretty dinky. The inside has a blue/grey finish. That light should have been the standard microwave light just for that reason. The color doesn’t help with the illumination. Not really a big deal we do have lights in our kitchen ceiling. Easy to clean off a splatter. I like that it opens with a push button. Just easier to clean. It’s small but not that small It can hold a 10-1/2 inch plate with room to spare. This size is perfect for us we use ours just for the basic warm ups and small cooking jobs. Worth every penny. I have to admit this microwave was hard to find at a regular listed price due to the pandemic but Amazon had it for the listed manufacture price and we snapped it up. Actually, I can’t believe the price is so low for a quality microwave like this one. Very happy with our choice.

Es un microondas compacto, pero muy funcional. Tuve uno mucho más grande de la misma marca y me funcionó perfectamente durante más de 10 años, por lo que me decidí por este. Su teclado digital hace muy fácil programar el tiempo de cocción o recalentado con precisión de minutos y segundos, por ejemplo 2 minutos y 13 segundos. Su interior es relativamente pequeño, pero suficiente para cocinar algo como para 4 personas, quizá no más. Calienta muy bien en un menor tiempo que el anterior horno que tuve, ya que es más moderno. Estoy muy satisfecho con mi compra. Supongo que tendrá larga vida útil como el anterior. Este tiene escasamente un mes. Recomiendo desconectarlo cuando no esté en uso o conectarlo a un multicontacto que tenga apagador. De esta manera se protege contra fluctuaciones de la corriente cuando est+a apagado, y no consume electricidad.

Lo he tenido por un mes y ha funcionado bien.