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Anyone have experience with Panasonic's "Cyclonic Inverter" microwaves? [1] Are they good?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEILEEPYiEs



I will never go back to a conventional microwave oven. I run mine at 30-60% power pretty much any time I want to reheat food. Running at full power just creates tiny pockets of steam inside the cold food that then explode all over the interior. At lower power the food heats evenly and this never happens!

I used to use a lid on all the food I microwaved but I learned recently that microwaves and plastic are not a good mix. Low power with my inverter microwave has rescued the device as something useful for heating food!

By the way, the “inverter technology” isn’t really anything special. It’s a switched-mode power supply like you’ll find in millions of devices. The main difference is that this one can output the high voltages needed to drive the magnetron. It’s also a lot lighter in weight since it uses a much smaller transformer!


Your comment seems to completely fail to answer my question? I know what an inverter is. I was specifically asking about Panasonic's Cyclonic Inverter technology, not about inverter technology in general.


To be fair to GP, "Cyclonic Wave" seems to be Panasonic's fancy marketing term for "inverter microwave, but with two magnetrons instead of one".


Putting in two magnetrons doesn't automatically imply field rotation, does it? They seem to rotate the fields here for better heating.

Regardless, I've seen inverter microwaves. The entire point of the question was to find out how this technology performs compared to other microwaves (with inverters or otherwise).




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