Panasonic NNH765WF FullSize 13/5CubicFoot 1250Watt Microwave Oven White

Works Great
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have had this for about a month. I am very happy with it. No hot spots like the last microwve I had. Easy to figure out how to use. Plenty of room. One minor irritation is that the thing you push to open the door doesn’t always pop back out on it’s own… but as soon as you close the door it does come back out. Aside from that no complaints.

So far so good
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve had this microwave for several weeks and have no complaints so far. It seems to have stronger cooking power than other microwaves I’ve used so I will try lowering to 80-90% power for some food. The turntable is nice and the microwave is extremely roomy inside.

enormous and powerful
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I’ve owned several microwaves over the past years. Typically what happens is I buy one, then move to a place that already has one so I end up selling the one I just bought. Then I repeat the cycle over and over. This is the microwave I’m using right now.

What I like – it is enormous which is both good and bad, but mostly good. I can fit a huge casserole in there and sometimes I need to do that so I like having the option. The exterior is easy to keep clean. The interior lazy susan works perfectly. And this is one powerful microwave so things get cooking quickly.

What is neutral – the big size means I had to buy a special cart to set this on because most micro carts are not deep enough. Not a big deal, just FYI.

What I don’t like – the interface isn’t great. I like when microwaves have a quick minute feature that doesn’t require pressing “start.” I would prefer a better popcorn setting because it is one of the features I regularly use. Just generally I don’t care for the interface when I compare to other microwaves I have owned. Unfortunately it seems like microwaves are constantly being tweaked because whenever I try to find the model I owned a year ago, I can never find it.

Overall this is a good microwave. I’m not sorry I purchased it and I suspect I will keep it for the length of my current lease. Whether I move it to my next home depends on that next home not having a microwave included.

Good with a couple minor irritations
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This microwave has treated me well in the last year that I’ve owned it with just a couple things that I would like improved if I could make it perfect. Mainly, the door open button has now become a little bit finicky in that it now needs to be pressed distinctly in the center to open the door fully. This can slow me down a bit when I forget and I push on it less than carefully, but it’s not really a major functional issue, just an irritation when I have to press it a second time to pop the door open completely. Secondly, I would like to improve the defrost function for chicken specifically, because there’s been a couple times when my bf has popped chicken into it for defrosting and entered the approx. correct weight into the monitor and it comes out slightly cooked around the outside edges. This ruins the flavor and texture of the chicken somewhat. So lately we’ve taken to either not using it for defrosting chicken or simply underestimate the weight as a workaround, but I’d love for that to be improved. Otherwise it’s a great machine, capable of actually softening without melting a stick of butter when you use it on the 3 bar power level setting for about a min and a half – amazing! Its sensor function is also decent for reheating foods, though I find that you usually want to take it out around the time when it beeps and starts giving you a timed countdown as it usually gets it a bit too hot otherwise. All in all, pretty great microwave with a large capacity and a nice clean design.

Great NUC
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
It was long past time when I replaced my old microwave with this new one.

It has more than enough power for anything I might need to do in it.

We really do like it.

Holy Cow, this thing is big!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I should really have read the specs on this thing before I bought it. I knew it was “full size” but evidently the microwaves I’ve had in the past several years were mini-micros. This thing is big. I think you could cook a whole pig in it, if you do that sort of thing. It was also light enough that I could lift it into place. The controls are great; you can figure out what power setting you’re on in a snap. It’s quiet, does a super job, and with a little kitchen reorganization, fits.

Not sad my old microwave died
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I very much like the inverter technology, it is a dramatic improvement over all of my previous microwaves. It has more bells and whistles than I am accustom to using so this will be a more nuts and bolts review. The additional power of this microwave is also a big advantage, it cooks and worms faster but it also burns faster so be warned. We lost power the day after we received it and had to reprogram the user settings and clock. The popcorn preset did not finish popping the bag and the auto preheat seems to over do it a bit, with that said it dose a very good job when you manually input the cooking parameters you desire. The one main complaint we have is the display, it seems to have a wide horizontal field of view but the vertical field of view is limited so I need to crouch down a bit to see the display when programing. As with everything we have purchased through amazon it arrived promptly, without damage, the price was fare and the transaction painless.

The BEST microwave I’ve ever owned
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased this microwave when they first hit the stores. This one appealed to me because I have a large family, and we have lots of company. I needed a microwave that I could fit my large casserole dishes into. This will easily hold a 13×9″ baking dish. This oven takes up a lot of space, but that is no problem for me. The power in this machine makes all its small drawbacks worthwhile. The turbo thawing feature is wonderful. Cuts thawing time by half in some instances. Popcorn? 2 minutes flat for most bags. Maybe a few seconds more for the gourmet bags. I love the turn table which keeps me from having to rotate the food for even cooking. The price is right on an appliance that is as good and reliable as this one. I have never regretted this purchase. In fact, I have looked around in stores, trying to see if anyone still sells them because I definitely want to purchase this same model again. I have found it nowhere in town recently, but I was thrilled to see it here on Amazon! If you have the space, and you want a dependable, powerful microwave, this is it!

Great microwave, no complaints
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After yet another microwave broke on us, I decided to do some research and find the best rated microwave that would hopefully last a while. I had started looking for a small microwave (<1 cubic foot), but this one looked like a very good microwave and was one of the best rated. I ordered it and when I got in the mail it was smaller than I expected for cubic feet and watts it had. It was easy to set up and figure out how to use the extra features. So far I have had no problems with it. The sensor works quite well, I have experimented with many types of food and it does a good job heating it to just the right temperature.

Panasonic NN-H765WF
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
When my 25 year-old microwave died I started looking for a replacement. After reading a number of reviews I settled on the Panasonic for several reasons. One, I’m familiar with several Sharp ovens and a number of them have problems with their displays. For example, my sister’s Sharp has a problem with the numbers and when you enter, for example, a nine it will read 1 with the parts of the nine that make it a nine left off. A 7 will also read as 1. Her oven still works fine and times correctly for the numbers you punch in, but the readout problem means you have to pay attention to the numbers you enter. Of the four Sharp ovens I’ve been around, all four suffer from that same fault. Two, I wanted one big enough to use a 9×13 dish in and the Panasonic does. While other ovens will also accommodate a 9×13 dish, they are larger ovens and take up more counter space. This is the smallest oven that I found which can handle my 9×13 dishes and still rotate them on the turntable. Some of the other ovens close to this size might handle 9×13 dishes provided the dishes don’t have flanges on the ends to aid in lifting them as mine do. Anyhow, it will accommodate the size dishes I wanted to be able to use. Three, it has a sensor and I wanted to try one with it and see if it was an improvement. Four, it happened to be on sale at the time.

After using it for three weeks I’m very happy with the oven. It is much faster than the old one, which I expected, but it also cooks much more uniformly. While I expected some improvement in uniformity, I received much more than I expected. I am also very pleased with the sensor system. As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to try a sensor oven, but did not realize that I would use it most of the time. You want to nuke some potatoes, you do not have to figure out how much time per potato and multiply that by the number of potatoes. Just poke your holes, punch sensor cook until it reads potatoes, and hit start. I do find it does a better job if you turn your potatoes over after it beeps twice, but even if you don’t it does an acceptable job. The sensor reheat also works better than I expected and I find myself depending upon it rather than standing there and deciding I’ll give the dish a couple of minutes and see it that’s enough. Lastly, the feature I like the best is the turbo defrost. My old Kenmore required a lot of fiddling to do a good job of defrosting such as adjusting the output and making sure to turn the food over several times during defrost with several waiting periods mixed in. While this oven still requires some fiddling, it requires far less and does a better job of defrosting without partially cooking. On small portions all you need do is enter the weight and hit start, but with bigger portions it works best by turning over, and with large portions of items like ground beef you need to scrape off the defrosted meat part way through the process to avoid partial cooking. Since most of the time the portions I’m defrosting fall into the smaller category I don’t have to do anything more than enter the weight and allow the oven to do the rest.

On the con side, I don’t like the way the turntable drive system engages the platter. It works fine, but you have to peer in and align the dogs on the bottom of the platter with their respective recesses in the drive flange. That is not earthshaking, but it is a miner aggravation. I can think of several ways to design the system so it would be easier to install the platter so it engaged the drive dogs correctly.

So as it stands, provided the oven is as reliable as the other Panasonic products I’ve used I heartily recommend it and so far I see no reason to think it won’t be. I was also pleased with the service and price from Amazon, but I’ve come to expect that level of service and pricing from them. I’ve only had one foul up with an Amazon order, and when they were notified of the problem they quickly corrected it, in fact much more quickly than I expected. You can’t ask or expect more.