Panasonic NN-SN936W Countertop Microwave with Inverter Technology, 2.2 Cubic Foot, 1250W, White

I got this microwave in white color because all our appliances in the kitchen are of white color. Finding appliances in white color is becoming harder over the years. We're not willing to replace all our appliances and we're not willing to mix and match. So, we struggle to find the best white ones and compromise on a lot of things. Our previous microwave (Whirlpool) was in a cabinet and had trim kit. That microwave gave a lot of trouble over the years and we finally got tired of getting the repairs done. I temporarily bought a cheap microwave from a local B&M store for interim use until we find a suitable microwave. All our search was unsuccessful. White color, trim should be available, and everything should fit well within the cabinet space. We settled for this Panasonic microwave even though it doesn't come with a trim and it is plain and simple without any modern amenities. I had to add a piece of wood to the cabinet to cover a gaping hole, but at least I didn't have to hire a professional. Positives: + Large. Quite large in fact. + Powerful enough. Heats up quite fast due to the inverter technology. + Inverter technology works well. + Genius Sensor works very well and cooks vegetables just perfect + Tiny LED light inside provides a lot of light Negatives: - Old school. It doesn't even have quick time buttons. if you want 2 minutes, you have to press 2,0,0,start. Even the 30 second quick button requires to press the start button afterwards. The cheap interim microwave was lot more user friendly. - Closing the door make a lot of noise. Very useful if you want to wake up the household in the morning. I found a trick to reduce the noise: keep the door open button pressed while closing the door and release it after closing the door. - No fancy functions offered by newer microwave ovens available in the market - When the heating cycle is completed, it insists on making 5 beeps. Opening the door won't stop that. No way to silence it. We are very happy with this unit because (1) it satisfies most of our needs, (2) reasonably priced, and (3) works very well.

This is a great microwave for countertop use, although it is large. It comes right to the edge of my counter, and fills the space below the cabinet almost completely. It is powerful, at 1200 watts, so it cooks slightly faster than most units, and for the price I recommend it. The interior of the unit isn't cluttered with little bumps and rivets, which makes cleaning easy. One thing to keep in mind for cleaning is that the rotating glass platter is large. You can almost fit two serving plates side by side. It may not fit in a dishwasher, it's that big. There are only a few things to keep in mind. Firstly, almost everything about this is loud. The door mechanism, both opening and closing, is loud. The beeps on the keypad are loud. The beeps at the end of cooking are loud, and annoyingly don't stop when you open the door. Secondly, the sensor reheat is overall pretty good. It is basically a steam sensor, so you have to take into account the type of item you're cooking, but I find that it works a bit better if covered with a paper towel for most items. If you don't do this, you may have to take it out, stir and then put it back in for 30 seconds or so. Lastly, and I'm not even sure if this is a complaint, the Quick 30 Seconds button doesn't automatically start the unit. You need to push Quick 30 and then start. This is different from my last unit (a GE model), and I liked that function. Now it's only real use is to add time to an already started cook. Still very useful, but it stands out because of how often I would use the feature to add time and start the unit with one button.

Our microwave died out of the blue, and we spent a good week researching microwaves to replace it. This one from Panasonic was highly rated by consumer advocacy groups and customers alike, and in the last two months it has worked perfectly for us. It did take some adjustment as this one cooks at a higher wattage than our old one, so if you are upping the wattage by buying this, make sure you alter the cooking times! Since buying this, we've noticed that a lot of products only list cook times for microwaves up to 1000 watts, nothing higher. This one cooks at 1200 watts, and that five minute cook time for our old 1000 watt microwave is now two and a half, maybe three minutes, with this new one. The interior of this microwave is large, and that's wonderful. Two six inch plates can fit side by side on the glass platter with no worries of bumping the sides of the microwave. The big size also means that if a plate or item is covered by a napkin or paper towel, the napkin or paper towel won't bump the side of the microwave and get knocked off the top of the plate and allow food to splatter. The timer end beep is plenty loud to hear if you leave the kitchen. The one thing we don't like about this microwave is that when you press the 30 second button it doesn't start automatically. You also can't press the Start button to have the microwave go for 30 seconds. These were features on our old one that we miss with this new one. Other than this, this has been a great purchase. Our old microwave made it through six moves, three states, and ten years. Here's hoping this one does the same.

When my seven year old LG microwave decided to start powering up when I opened the door and me not yet having pressed any buttons I figured it was time for a replacement. I chose this one. I selected white as the unit sits and an alcove making black buttons harder to see. Unfortunately, I took the risk of buying from Amazon Warehouse in order to save a few dollars. Besides, that was the only purchase option at the time. A mistake. The microwave was a returned item of course and improperly packed. I had a lot of trouble getting it to start microwaving. I had two choices, return it and wait another two weeks to get a questionable replacement or I could crack it open and fix it. I cracked it open. The unit kept thinking the door was open and refused to start. The door was closed, but not tightly. When the door is closed, the top latch should push down on a switch closing the switch. Then the unit knows the door is closed and will function. The latch in this case was not pressing that switch down. I took the cover off of the unit and made the tiniest of adjustments to the mechanism. Now the door tightly closed and the latch properly pushed down and closed that switch. I put the cover back on and proceeded to heat up a cup of mac and cheese. It works just fine. (To answer your question: No, I don’t think I could have repaired that LG microwave. It had become dangerous and was destined for the dumpster.) The problem was likely caused by the door being slammed by whomever returned it. They bought it, it was delivered, they unpacked it, they set it up, they broke it, they packed it up and they sent it back. In reality, a single screw was not tight enough which allowed the latching mechanism inside the unit to be pushed back when the door was slammed which resulted in the door not latching closed properly, the switch not being closed and the unit to not function. We all know that Amazon quality control when it comes to reselling returned items is less than perfect. As in non existent. Once again I swear I will never again purchase from the warehouse. This unit is huge but it’s light. I rarely use those programmed buttons for pizza and such so I don’t miss them. It does have a popcorn button, but we use an air popper so that will go unused. I will be trying the oatmeal selection in the morning. If you don’t hear from me again then that worked just fine. I really don’t use a microwave for cooking. Mostly it’s for reheating or cooking all that frozen garbage. If I do use it to cook it might be for bacon, soup, beans, a potato and the like. Basically, I over bought for what I use a microwave for, but I’d rather have too much unit than not enough. I always have the option of doing more with this unit. I like the white and am glad I made that decision. I’ll watch my return window in case the unit does start to act up and I’ll save the box and packing until that window closes, but I suspect that I will get years of service from this microwave. This is a very nice unit. If you can get it without purchasing it from the Amazon Warehouse then I say go for it.

When the microwave that came with the house became defective I had to look for one that would fit in the frame. I found a Panasonic that is the same model as the one I just ordered from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. My brother had to modify the frame a little and the microwave fit just right. I bought a second microwave and stored it in my garage in case the one I replaced had a problem. I may not be able to find another microwave to fit so I was planning ahead. Years later I finally had to use the second microwave. This was less then a year ago. Somehow the second one became defective after a few months. I had to slam the door and then sometimes it would work. Pressing the button to open the door was another problem. It would open slightly and I had to pry it open each time. Now I needed to buy yet a third one to fit the frame. Fortunately and to my surprise my son found the same model on Amazon. I ordered it and it still fits the frame. The door opens without a problem, and it works!!!!! I couldn't believe that after all these years Pansonic would still make the same model. I was so happy. I got so used to prying the door open and having to press the buttons to try and get the thing to work. Capacity is huge, the turntable that comes with the microwave is very big. You can use it as a serving platter if you needed to. The buttons are easy to press. I use the power level at 5 to melt chocolate chips. The defrost feature is helpful so you don't cook the food. There is a keep warm button that I've never tried. Usually I heat the food and start eating so I never have to keep warm. Reason why you heat up the food is because you want to eat right away right?! It's like WOW this works so well!!! If you need a larger microwave oven I highly recommend this model. Thank you Amazon for selling this item, I am forever grateful. I'm thinking of ordering another one in case this one becomes defective.

Note: I'm a former Electronics R&D Technician - ASET. We just got this two days ago and our old Sharp Carousel microwave oven, which had lasted about 15 years, had died last week, so I set it up the same day. I love it! It's intuitive to use, just like the old one was. I ordered this particular model because of the numerical key pad, which is like our old one. Some of the newer ones have a dial, where you dial up the time, and that sounded like a hassle. With the numerical keypad, I can just enter 245 and Start, and it will cook at full power for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Very nice. https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_wr_but_top?ie=UTF8&channel=glance-detail&asin=B01DEWZWGC But this new one has something special. That "Inverter" technology. At first, I didn't understand what it meant. Yes, from my background, I knew what inverters are, but it seemed to have nothing to do with what this oven does. So here's what I've learned: In my old oven - EVEN THOUGH it had a turntable - I would cook something like a frozen dinner, that had maybe a 4" diameter piece of chicken in it. It would come out with the end of the piece rubbery, and the rest cooked ok. Sometimes it did that on rice too. Or sometimes I would cook something and part of the dish would be hot, and part cool. Long story short: This oven doesn't do that! My frozen dinners have uniform cooking, with no rubbery stuff and everything is a nice even hot meal! It's like a well cooked restaurant meal! How does it do that? The old oven technology - even though it has the "carousel", which helped some - would cook with the microwave power either all on, or all off. So if I set it to warm something up for 3 minutes on a power of 5 ( 50% power ), it would cycle the full 100% power on and off, 50% of the time, over that 3 minutes. But what THIS "Inverter" technology seems to do, is keep the microwave power actually AT 50% for the entire 3 minutes. So it isn't slamming the food with either all or nothing. It's a nice even cooking! I love the difference! The only thing I might have done differently is not to name it "Inverter", which doesn't make sense to me. I might have called it "Proportional Power" or "Variable Power", or something like that. But what the heck. It's the results that count and I love the results! Very happy with this! 8-29-18 Update: I just heated 2 cups of water to a boil, in a pyrex cup, for making tea. But I forgot about it. I came back 15 minutes later and realized that I have to heat it again. But instead of coming to a boil, it exploded, spraying HALF of it all over the inside of the oven! I don't know how to reach the seller, but if they can contact me, and explain this, I can remove this part and go back to the good review again.

This is my families 3rd Panasonic microwave and the previous 2 lasted for many years before they stopped. We have been happy with the brand and that is one of the main reasons we got this one. We have had it only a few months but it works great and we are happy so far. I know others have mentioned bad wi-fi and other problems but we have never had any of those issues. If it dies early we do have the extended warranty but if that is necessary I will come back and dock stars for how long it lasts. Things we don't like: The sensor cook is a 1-14. We only use the sensor for baked potatoes so I had to memorize it was sensor #8. It would be nice if it gave some indication of what the numbers stand for but you just have to look in the book...not a deal killer but a small annoyance. It has a different layout for the buttons then the last Panasonic we had. The start and clear buttons are reversed and I keep hitting the clear instead of the start. I have had 2 months to get used to it but old habits die slow. I am starting to remember but why do they change the place of the start and clear on different models?!? Things we like (and what we looked for in chosing this model): Size. This is a big microwave and for our kitchen, this is our preferred size. Bright interior. We had a microwave years ago (can't remember the brand) that didn't last long and it had a grey interior. That is really annoying. This one is white on the inside and nice and bright. Inverter technology. Makes the cooking much more even and faster as well. At least they claim and it does seem to work. +30 second button. I prefer a +1 minute button but either way this is a must for our family. Just punch in the time and start. No weird push this button then the power level then time nonsense. It is very easy as it should be. Turntable. We like the evenness this provides. Seems to work for us so we always chose it.

Have had three Panasonic counter-top microwaves before this. First one died of old age (many years old. Can't remember exactly how many, but it was ober 15.) Second one, something in it exploded .... no parts flying around, just a good-sized bang, some smoke and a dead oven. Was only about 5-7 years old. Third one developed the door latch problem that so many people have reported: the door latch doesn't close properly, the oven won't turn on. Started after about 5-6 years. We extended its life a year by pushing down on the door while shutting it - and holding it down - then pushing the start button. Worked most of the time. Sometimes after multiple start/stops while cooking one meal it would konk out. VERY frustrating! Finally brokedown and bought a new one after being told by Panasonic that they'd solved the "door problem" on new models. We'll see. So, you ask, why did you keep buying the same problematic microwave over and over? Dumb and dumber?! Because Panasonic makes the biggest (2.2 cu ft) and most powerful (1200 watts) microwave that we could find for a reasonable price (< $200) that also works extremely well and has some very nice features (defrost works well, sensor cooking does a reasonably good job of cooking evenly, etc). Would rather spend the money every 5 years or so to have a microwave that we know works well, than the same amount for one that doesn't and perhaps have to put up with it for much longer. Seems like a mildly Faustian bargain that shouldn't be necessary. But that's the climate of business models we live with today. I don't think I'll ever have one die of old age again. Will try to remember to update this as time goes by. Stay tuned.

Pues como siempre no da nada de que hablar es excelente producto ya había tenido uno hace años se descompuso por una sobrecarga de luz pero jala excelente igual que el anterior

As advertised

estuvo muy bien el producto y al igual el servicio por parte del proveedor fue excelente !!

Todo bien, calienta los alimentos súper bien, lo único que le veo de detalle es que en el táctil de los números tiene como un plástico que los recubre que al mes de uso ya se despego y pareciera como si estuviera pelado del botón, pero hasta el momento es el único detalle, funciona bien

Escogí este modelo por que era el único de tamaño grande (2.2) que costara menos de $500 dólares pero desgraciadamente se nota lo "económico" en los materiales. El WiFi y bluetooth dejan de funcionar cuando se usa el microondas, parece simple pero esto ha dado MUCHOS problemas. Todo el plástico se siente ligero, delgado y frágil. La puerta al cerrarla suena como resortes de cama vieja. La ventana en la puerta tiene plástico y llegó hundido, abollado. Con uso NORMAL se dañó un botón de la superficie. No noto ninguna mejora de desempeño en comparación con mi anterior micro del 2008 (en serio ).