A many time purchaser of Panasonic microwaves in the past was happy to go with the salesman’s advice of a bigger space inside due to no turntable. However after a few uses we found it to be very hit and miss with cooking vegetables (something I have always done in all my microwaves with no dramas) eg potatoes that would normally take 10-12 mins now can take anywhere between 10-20 mins, microwave popcorn can take up to 3 times the suggested time on the pack. It’s lack of consistency is very frustrating.
Things I like- easy to clean due to no turntable.
Would I recommend to others to buy - No

We have previously been fans of Panasonic microwaves but feel this one is a dud. We find that food is not evenly heated and the cool function is beyond annoying because after you remove the food, the cool function kicks in for an unreasonable length of time which is very noisy - a lousy idea guys! It forces the user to open the door and leave it open until the "cooling period" expires. We would never ever purchase one again! Avoid it.

This is one of the only Microwaves without the annoying and useless rotating tables inside.
The designers of this Microwave Oven really put some thought into what they were going to build before they built it.
This oven does not have any wasted space, like you have in a turntable type Microwave.
You can use the whole area of the base to heat / cook your food.
You don't have to worry about the food or plates on the turntable being out of center and stopping the rotation of it.
The panel controls are easy to understand and use.
The booklet is easy to to use and well thought out.
The heating power is very impressive and heats up very quickly.

All up 100% to the designers and builders of this microwave oven.

Doesn't warm food evenly. Main problem is rust inside. Around vents in ceiling and front top lip inside. Very poor adhesion of enamel. Panasonic Australia didn't want to know about it saying caused by 'other reasons'. Granted it is a few years old but rust doesn't happen overnight. Not happy at all. And made in China. I'm now an ex Panasonic customer.

Firstly, this microwave is noisy and then got noisier after we started having issues with it. 2ndly, the functions are very average, their are no reheat meal options. It does not heat or reheat well at all, steaming veggies was impossible in this microwave, even when it was working. Entering heating time is annoying as you have to enter the minutes and then minimum 10 seconds separately, eg. if you want to heat something that takes 5min 45seconds you can't, you would have to hit the minutes button 5 times and then the 10sec button 5 times and t...

Love not having a turntable, but unfortunately it cooks unevenly, especially if we have more than one thing in the microwave (back left area seems to heat up quicker). However we have got use to this now. Got the dreaded ‘H97’ error yesterday and repair will cost the same as buying a new one - so for us 3 1/2 year life span

Purchased Sept2018. Liked it because it didn’t have a turntable and was easy to clean.
From start did not cook as well as our old one, things took longer to cook or heat up. Persisted because thought just had to get used to it.
Door latch started playing up after 12mths, didn’t take it back as out of warranty. Now can’t latch door at all and therefore cannot get it to operate.
Would not buy again, will do more research next time

Purchased 4/19. The microwave worked very well without any problems and was really impressed with no turntable. However the door latch/lock system has failed and I cannot now close the door. Unfortunately we have search the house high and low but cannot find proof of purchase. So exit microwave.

Bought a new one from HN and found out it was making noises. Went back and get replacement but having the same problems. I don’t know what to do next.

Purchased this microwave 5/8/2018, thought it would be better as it had no turn table which gave us more room ,but didn’t realise that it had a mind of its own. You put food in it which you have been heating up for years pick your time and sometimes you can’t eat it because it’s that hot or it’s still cold.The other problem is when you go to open the door you press the door open button and it is delayed which is very annoying ,these aren’t new problems this is from the start we just thought we had to get use to the new microwave next time I will do more research and will not buy one of these again.

I've persevered with this flat-bed micro wave for a month now, but find it very slow and it definitely doesn't heat evenly. I'd happily swap it for an ordinary rotating microwave, which would have been cheaper too. What do I do now?

This microwave doesn’t have a carousel, just a square base. Game changer, you can fit more containers in it, and very powerful quick heating. Lots of great defrost features also

We have using this product for 6 months. Good for family use in everyday. It has huge capacity and features as well. Real good value for money. Will recommend to friends.

Disappointed. Bought this type as easier for us to clean and has worked well. We took out extended warrantry to be safe. My wife is the only person who uses it. When she was wiping it out she found a crack in the bedplate so we took pics and took them in to the Good Guys. Good Guys were fantastic, absolute legends, very supportive. Panasonic on the other hand were not. We got phone calls, very polite, but telling us this was not a manufacturing fault and therefore not covered by warrantry and we would have to pay cash to have it fixed. Really. ...

We purchased the microwave few days ago, its making electric pop buzz noise from the RHS back. Very creepy!!! We knew the flatbed won't heat up the food as even as the turn table, but never had this creepy sound in previous experience!

I really love this microwave its very fast and comfortable for modern cooking and design is also good as well as invertor technology and there is no plate so cleming is very easy.

This is actually an incredible microwave. It cooks food far more evenly than a normal microwave that revolves the food (this just has a flat bed). The texture of cold food reheated is just as good as freshly cooked, and so far same with frozen meals (risotto). It’s really easy to use, love that it has a 10 min button (in addition to 10 seconds and 1 min), although I wish it had a 30 second button. And the recipe book it comes with is amazing!! Who knew you could cook so many things in a microwave!! And without any splatter, ever!!

I've had this for 6 months. It replaced a 20 year old Sharp that finally went ZOT with a puff of smoke. I bought it because I liked the idea of the flat bed & easily cleaned interior (with the exception of the sharp lip at the front) . I am a lazy bachelor; I use a microwave exclusively for heating a mug of milk (50 secs, twice a day) for my espresso, or various frozen bricks of TV dinners (3-6 minutes twice a week). I don't know if the lack of a revolve changes cooking efficiency. I've never tried anything more complex, so I don't need the sma...

We were satisfied with way it cooked and operated but while it was not in use we heard a bang and then heard the fire alarm and ran downstairs to smell electrical burning smell and see smoke coming out of the microwave. Very scary. I see we are not the only ones to have had this issue.

Unit was defective out of the box. Faulty door catch which I discovered after googling is endemic to current Panasonic microwaves with hundreds of complaints. Panasonic destroys every semblance of credibility by advising 'we've never encountered that problem'. What passes for 'customer service' is in Manila, with all the problems typical of offshore call centres ... unintelligible, disinterested, arrogant, unhelpful etc. Clearly there is no such thing as quality control as a trained monkey would have noticed the problem .. it would be impossib...