Panasonic NNGD37HSGTG Inverter Microwave Oven with grill, 13 automatic programs, and Microwave Inverter technology to heat and defrost the most delicate foods evenly in record time.
Even Heating and Defrosting
Microwave Inverter
Melting chocolate in a conventional microwave oven without burning it is a difficult task. Baby foods can be even more challenging, as it is essential to ensure there are no spots that are excessively hot or cold. With Panasonic's Microwave Inverter technology, it can heat and defrost the most delicate foods evenly in record time.
Microwave Power
The power of microwaves penetrates deep into the food, heating the water molecules they contain to cook the food from the inside out. The microwave oven can be used for simple cooking such as heating a meal.
Grill
The built-in quartz grill system in the oven provides quick, efficient cooking for a wide variety of foods such as sausages and toast. The grill can be used for baking pizza and grilling chicken.
Turbo Defrost
Unique to Panasonic, this function uses random power pulses to dramatically reduce defrosting time. At the same time, it eliminates the problem of partially cooked foods with still frozen spots.
Time and energy saving
Cook 40% faster with microwaves and grill using various functions simultaneously. Unlike a conventional microwave oven, Panasonic's Microwave Inverter technology allows you to combine the functions of hot air and grill with the microwave function or use them all together. You also save on energy costs: 19% during operation and up to 50% in standby mode.
Aqua Clean Function
If you want to get rid of unpleasant food odors from your oven, the Aqua Clean function is for you. Simply place a cup of water and a little lemon juice in the microwave and press the Aqua Clean button. This will start boiling the cup of water and the steam produced inside the oven will absorb the odors and clean the interior, without the need to use cleaning products.
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While it has a plethora of features (grill, automated combination programs, etc.), it suffers in reheating/defrosting.
Whether you put frozen meat for defrosting or a piece of pastitsio at high or low power, the heating is not uniform.
The bottom part of the material on the rotating plate gets heated, the center is room temperature, and the top part is frozen.
And yes, you can flip a piece of meat every 30 seconds to help with the even distribution of microwaves, but a piece of pastitsio or moussaka that has béchamel sauce, or any other food that cannot be flipped or stirred to maintain its appearance, will be unevenly heated.
For cooking, I have not yet tried if the grill achieves heating on the top part, but it was mainly purchased for defrosting and reheating already cooked meals.
Another drawback is that you cannot adjust the power in steps. It has pre-set presets to choose from. Going down from 1000 watts, it goes to 600 and downwards. The fact that the option for 800 watts is missing is a disadvantage because many recipes have 800 watts as a power option.
Heats up quickly and strongly. It has good lighting. When you take out the food and close it, you hear a small sound and it cleans the odors inside. The indications are easily understandable.
The only negative thing is the fingerprints that are visible and it needs more frequent cleaning.
The only annoying thing is that its surface gets ring marks with the slightest touch and it looks bad, as if it's dirty. Other than that, it's very good for its price.
Positives:
1. Very large plate diameter for its size.
2. Relatively quiet.
3. Heats up quickly.
4. The grill with halogen lamps is much better for combi warming than the one with resistors because it takes much less time to warm up.
Negatives:
1. Pressing "Start" does not start it! Every time you have to set the time through the rotary switch and then press Start.
2. When it has been used for a long time and finished, it keeps the fan on to release steam and odors. The fan's operating time is shorter than it should be, without taking into account if the door was opened, resulting in trapping steam inside sometimes.
Overall, we are satisfied. Now the only thing left to see is how long it will last.
It was purchased on Black Friday on sale for 139 euros! So far, I am completely satisfied! Much quieter than a regular microwave oven because it uses inverter technology!
The heating of the food is uniform throughout! (compared to the previous oven we had, which heated the plate all around and the food in the middle was cold!)
Another thing I really liked is that it uses white LED lighting inside.
As for the other functions like grilling or defrosting, I don't know how they work since I only use it for heating food! Also, the build quality is excellent and sturdy!! However, it is much lighter due to the use of an inverter mechanism! Even the buttons have a soft touch when pressed, instead of the classic click sound that most ovens have, giving a fake feeling, like the old one I had.
Overall, microwaves that have inverter technology have many advantages, and I hope that in the future all companies will adopt this technology! (More energy-efficient, more uniform heating without significant alteration of the food, lighter device, and surely many other unknown advantages!)
I hope this one lasts as long as the old one I had! :)