The NN-SN686S stainless steel Panasonic Microwave is a top rated kitchen appliance that comes fitted with a good number of premium features, and still manages to be easy on your pocket. To begin with, the microwave is available in either black, silver or white, and has a decent capacity of about 1.2 cubic feet that also gives it a small footprint. The counter top microwave relies on inverter technology to heat or prepare your food, and this results in more evened out cooking than what you’d get from a regular microwave. These are just a few of the reasons why we think you should give it a look as you shop around for the best microwave for your budget. Get on with this review to find out what else it has to offer.
Why We Like It – Panasonic Microwave Ovens Countertop
Like most Panasonic Microwave Ovens Countertops, the NN-SN686S adds top notch cooking functionality to your kitchen, while not forcing you to spend a whole lot of money for it. It uses inverter technology to cook or prepare your food, has a 1 year warranty that covers all its parts, and is also pretty easy to use.
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- Uses Inverter Technology
- Has a genius sensor that adjusts power and times based on different foods
- 1 Year Warranty
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- Interior lighting doesn’t come on when the door is open
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Power & Performance
This Panasonic NN-SN686S microwave oven is a high energy microwave oven that offers a power output of up to 1200 watts, which puts it in the same league as the NN-SN97JS Panasonic Stainless Steel Microwave. Your food gets prepared pretty fast because of this, and thanks to inverter technology, it’ll be well evened out. People who don’t necessarily know how to prepare their meals will probably be very happy about the genius sensor that this Panasonic countertop microwave comes with. The sensor makes things a lot easier by adjusting the power and times that it will take for the microwave to prepare a wide range of different foods so that you don’t have to.
Durability
Panasonic is a well known international brand that manufacturers a wide range of appliances, so you shouldn’t have any doubts as to the durability or reliability of their products. Most if not all of their countertop microwaves come with a 1 year warranty, and this covers all its parts. Also, most of them have a stainless steel body that makes them very easy to clean.
Ease of Use
The touch key control panel on the Panasonic NN-SN686S has buttons that are arranged & designed in a manner that’s very different from how they are in the NN-SD945S Panasonic Countertop Microwave. This gives it a much more sleek and modern look, and also makes the font on each button a lot easier to read. On that panel, you’ll find buttons such as the sensor cook button which presents up to 12 preset auto-cook options, a cooking timer for you to set your own cooking times, a power level control that lets you alternate between 10 power levels for your cooking. Sensor cooking technology helps to eliminate guesswork when cooking and GE JES2051SNSS is one of the microwave ovens that has this feature.
Additional Features & Versatility
One function that anyone using the Panasonic NN-SN686S will come to appreciate is its Keep Warm feature, where you’ll have the microwave emitting low microwave energy every now and then just so that the food that it’s finished cooking is able to stay warm until whenever you want to take it out of the microwave. Also worth mentioning is the microwave’s Turbo defrost feature, which makes sure that defrosting or thawing happens a lot faster than on a regular microwave.
Value
Inside the Panasonic NN-SN686S you’ll find a 13.4 inch turntable that’ll be able to accommodate medium to large food containers, giving you a lot more space than what you’ll get with the NN-SD372S as you’ll see in its Panasonic Microwave Oven Review.
Panasonic Microwave Ovens Countertop Wrap Up
If you’ve never shopped around for microwave ovens before, you might get confused about what you need to look out for. The key things you need to be clear about are ease of use, range of functionality, and the wattage. The Panasonic NN-SN686S satisfies these three key areas pretty well, but if you’re still not sure about it, you can go ahead and have a look at what buyers had to say about it on its Amazon page.
