Panasonic Microwave Oven Model # NN-SA647B, 1300 Watts Review

When you don't have many -- or sometimes ANY -- other people to cook for, you tend to use your microwave a lot.  There are so many great frozen entrees out there -- some of them very nutritious and tasty -- and of course reheating leftovers plays a prominent part even when things aren't tight economically.  (Personally, I love leftovers so much I sometimes am tempted to cook a meal and just shove the WHOLE THING into the fridge to reheat the next day!) 

You go along year after year -- sticking things into your microwave with wild abandon -- and you begin to take it for granted.  The day when this faithful kitchen friend gives up the ghost is a cold dose of reality but sometimes something good comes out of it, as it did a few months ago when tragedy struck in my kitchen in the form of my old microwave rolling over and dying.  If it hadn't been for that terrible event, I might have never ended up with my Panasonic Microwave Oven # NN-SA647B with 1300 Watt High Power and Inverter Turbo Defrost and I am already beginning to wonder how I ever got along without it!  This is technically a "Family Size" oven (1.2 cubic feet) but is still a perfect fit for my limited counter space.  It heats beautifully (in fact, I automatically set my heating times to less than the directions specify) and how ABOUT those nine automatic functions?!!!!! 

Food browns beautifully and I have even baked COOKIES in this microwave!  I can slice off a couple refrigerated dough Pillsbury cookies, plop them onto a microwave safe plate, and bake them until they are about half done.  Remove from the oven and the cookies will continue baking a few seconds to a nice chewy stage as they cool on the plate.

My Panasonic Microwave Oven # NN-SA647B with 1300 Watt High Power and Inverter Turbo Defrost apparently was on sale at Trage Hardware in Forest Park, Illinois, the day I bought it as it cost less than $100 and was available in either Black or White.  It weighs only 24.3 pounds but works like a champ!