Panasonic NN-A554WBBTQ Freestanding, microwave

+ I originally bought this model 4 years ago and was delighted with it so when it broke I purchased the same model again. It is very effective as an oven, so much so that our main oven is used very rarely. Although our original one only lasted 4 years, we used it on a daily basis both as a microwave and as an oven and as such I felt it had more than paid for itself.

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+ Good features and a good price. Low power consumption when not in use and of course inverter technology when cooking for a more even job.

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+ stylish and compact

- somtimes with large amounts the turntable sticks and stops revolving and door release somtimes sticks

+ This is an excellent microwave easy to use and food is perfectly cooked every time.

- I haven't found any bad points on this appliance.

+ very effective 'chaos' defrost system,
guides and instructs at each stage, including 'shield or turn'
variations on cooking to get for example 'baked pots' use the combination to get that baked effect in minutes

- didn't buy it sooner

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- Very disappointing replacement for an older model oven/grill/micro combi. The oven works off the grill so basically you only get a microwave/grill. The results from using the convection oven are the same as if you had grilled - black on top and cold underneath.

+ Combination perfect for Jacket Potatoes. Oven heats very quickly.

- Can't think of any.

+ Although I hadn't had a Combi before I soon managed to use the various functions thanks to the easy to follow instruction booklet and clear control panel.

- Can't think of any.

+ When it worked it was excellent

- Convection Oven now inoperative - temperature setting/thermostat never kicks in, so oven gets hotter and hotter and hotter!

+ easy to use

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+ This Microway was bought to replace one that lasted 12 years at least. We hope this one last half as much. It's quite easy to use, easy to clean, and it seems quite efficient. We don't really cook meals in microways but it's excellent for warming up and defrosting food. It might be good for cooking but we just don't use microways for that.

- I couldn't find it in silver to match the cooker and the rest of the kitchen, personally that is not important to me but my wife wanted a silver one, I buy what I think it is the best for the budget I have and in that category this microwave fits the bill perfectly. Perhaps a little noisy - I was hoping that after 12 years with the old one, the new one with new technology would be a little quieter.

+ Ther power rating gves quick and efficient cooking both as a micro and a convection and the stainless steel interior makes it easy to keep clean

- haven't found any yet

+ Easy to use, easy to clean, compact for amount of food you can cook. Love the chaos defrost option.

- Cannot think of any.

+ Microwave functions are very good

- When using convection oven the top grill operates so if you are not very careful the top of your food will get burnt especially on longer times

+ VERY GOOD

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+ A powerful microwave and I like the stainless steel body

- A very noisy microwave. I would not recommend it if your living room is too near your kitchen.

+ Really easy to use. Looks good. Being an oven and a microwave means that food cooks quickly saving time and money. Has made my main oven virtually redundant.

- Haven't discovered any bad points

+ Doesn'ttake up too much space. Don't need to have a conventional oven as well.

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+ Had similar product previously and was very impressed with the ease of use. This one is more slimline but retains the ability to contain large dishes. In addition it is easier to clean as the back wall of the oven is now smooth stainless steel. Being a combi model, cooking time is reduced and there is little need to preheat the oven. The smaller volume capacity means that it is more economical to operate than a standard oven when cooking only one large or a couple of small dishes.

- Although the internal features are better designed than earlier models, the external appearance has changed very little. The left-hand-only hinged door can create problems in kitchen layout. - Ever though about optional right-hand hinged door or drop-down or rise-up door?

+ There are no bad points, maybe the convector side of the oven takes a while to bring the temp. up to the reqd. level but it has to remembered it is not an AGA!

- None that I can find.

+ Nice looking, easy to use & and cooks really well.

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+ Small outside, large inside. Would definitely recommend it.

- Convection cooking can easily burn food. A bit noisy.

+ Easy to use, Instructions easy to follow.

- Replecement parts found to be expensive when needed

+ Good value, with a lot of useful features

- A bit complicated to use

+ Although thickness of the instruction book can look quite daunting, it's very helpful and easily explained.
The fact that all three facilities - microwave, grilling and convection are all in one neat and stylish machine os great.

- Can't think of any.

+ many

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+ Compact design.
Easy-clean control panel.

- microwave door does not fit properly. It is mis-aligned with the rest of the front panel. This detracts from the appearance and quality of the product.

+ good small overall size with maximum interior space. Works very well and keeps fairly accurate time

- terribly bad control panel layout and minute wording. muddled up display of microwave cooking levels

+ Wonderful to use and efficent sums this microwave combi up! Great value for money the best one I've had.

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+ Outside always easy to clean.

- None have been noted

+ Easy to use and keep clean

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+ It's got everything

- Internal rear corners need to be rounded
for easier cleaning.A wee bit noisy when
doing jacket potatoes

+ Good appearance and easy to keep clean.

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+ EXCELLENT SIZE TURNTABLE, HEATS UP VERY QUICKLY ON CONVECTION AND PERFORMS TO A HIGH STANDARD. CLEANS EASILY. OVERALL A VERY GOOD BUY.

- AFTER USING IT FOR 4 WEEKS THE INVERTER BROKE DOWN, WHICH I AM TOLD IS VERY UNUSUAL.

+ cleaning, speed of cooking, self explanatory pads for operating

- The wheels are attached to a flimsy ring, which comes out of true every time you take the food out of the oven, even if you only wish to stir it. A more substantial turning wheel, attached more securely to the plate/tray (as their older versions), would be more acceptable

+ I could find no good points

- What was said to be a convential oven was the grill element being used to heat the oven causing food to be burnt on the top

+ simple to operate, stylish design

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+ Auto cook feature excellent - cooks food to perfection.

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+ Simple and easy to use - loads of features - why pay more?

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+ It's small outside and quite big inside and does everything it says it will and does it well. For the price it has to be one of the best in it's class on the market.

- Need some good tips on how to keep the inside clean as it really gets used a lot as an oven with all the spitting fats etc.

+ small,compact and pleasant to look at

- You have to weigh all the food you cook on pre-set programmes i.e jacket potatoes, veg etc. which is very time consuming. On my last Panasonic, same model, I just pressed the pad and it did it automatically. A backward step!

+ Compactness; neat appearance; choice of cooking methods; increased speed due to higher wattage than previous model owned.

- Interior difficult to clean - after a roast item especially.

+ Easy to use, cooks food very well.

- Takes a long time for the oven to warm up to the right temperature

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- difficult to see letters sometime as they are in black. also quite noisy.

+ Easy to use
Multi functional
Quite compact and attractive to look at in comparison to other m/waves
Does everything it claims to do and does it very well - love the fan assisted combination and convection features..

- None that spring to mind. However the fan overrun to cool the appliance when cooking has ended is annoying at first but you soon get used to it.

+ Looks nice, easy to use.

- Nothing really. Haven't used the oven yet, the grill does not quite result in the same crispness as a standalone grill, but I didn't really expect that.

+ I like the" modern way" that you can use the microwave at reduced power, unlike our old one which ran at the full power but cut the operating time down, excellent for my main daily use of the porridge ceremony !!

- the door catches/rubs on the bottom of the hinge, which the manufacturer must know as there is sign of a grease mark on the hinge bracket

+ Neat and tidy but with good volume

- controls can be difficult to read, but ok after getting familiar through use

+ Very easy to use, multi-functional and compact

- None really, very good microwave by a great brand

+ smaller neater model than its predecessor, useful features like autocook

- pizza cooking (amongst other things) requires oven to be reheated on autocook, not very economical and it didn't tell you how long it would take (10 minutes for this item). This was not necessary on old version of oven. recipe book is a cut down version of previous one - no new ideas or recipes, bit disappointing.

+ Everything about it

- Oven only goes up to 220 degrees C, a similar model I used to have went up to 250.

+ Having used a Panasonic microwave many years ago, I found no difficulty in using this new model.
With the 1000 motor it is much quicker than the old 600, and the stainless steel inside cleans like a dream.

- The revolving wheels move off centre when you lift the cooking out, and you have to reposition the trays again

+ It has a larger turntable compared to our old Panasonic model. The addition of an additional convection oven has already prooved useful. Although this is a higher spec compared to our older model it is exactly the same size so takes up no more space. Defrost function works very well.

- The door opening mechanism does not feel very sturdy and the door makes a grating noise when you swing it open.

+ Great microwave with nice and easy to clean stainless inside - same internals as the dearer full stainless model - only used grill once - still waiting to test the oven - food heats very quickly and even - pretty good standard size - seems well built but only had mine a month

- gets hot on outside when using grill - keep a gap around the microwave - default timings on chaos defrost not quite right although there a good guide - big external metal part at rear of microwave that you don't see on the web photos

+ just everything cant fault it panasonic does it again, it does everything it says in the book and does it well a little dream machine, it replaces our sharp which we had for 24yrs.for the money you cant get better.

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+ Only used grill and microwave so far, except for jacket potatoes, which were great, manual easy to understand and use.

- only down side my old panasonic was fully automatic so you didn't even have to enter weights when using the automatic buttons.

+ THIS WAS A DIRECT REPLACEMENT FOR OUR OLD MICROWAVE, WE HAD IT FOR YEARS WHEN IT FINALLY 'WENT HOME' WE FOUND THE NEAREST UP TO DATE MODEL AS WE WERE SO HAPPY WITH THE OLD ONE.

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- I find I have to press quite hard on the pads before it works

+ Very easy to use

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+ large inside but overall size is small

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+ easy to use

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+ Great looking, easy to use machine - at a reasonable price!

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+ neat clean lines, easy to maintain

- Power setting should be in sequence, not high defrost medium etc
Some functions not easy to use

+ Small, compact

- Not as good menu options as my previous Sanyo

+ Microwave works fine.

- Cluttered controls - not easy to read. Combi functions not as good as a conventional grill & oven, but OK in an emergency.

+ COMPACT AND SIMPLE TO USE
CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS

- YET TO DISCOVER

+ easy to use good clean looking product

- not as good as nna750 model you have to pre-heat on pizza and only auto cooks frozen ones

+ value for money

- door catch a bit flimsey breaks easy

+ Good for jacket potatoes and defrosting bread

- Last microwave of same model only lasted 3-4 years

+ I love my new microwave and I would not swap it. I have also recommended it to a friend.

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+ Fantastic microwave, just love it. Looks good, performs to a high standard, very neat & compact. WHAT MORE DO I NEED TO SAY.

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+ Flexibility

- Grill could be better

+ Although I haven't been used to a combi before, once i'd read the instructions a couple of times it all became quite simple, but to try and work it without reading them does lead to a few disasters!

- Haven't found any

+ A pleasing design and a very similar model to the model we bought about 9 years ago which gave very good service

- The lower door hinge has begun to grate slightly.
This model is noisier compared to our old model.
This model does not seem to be as powerful as our old model despite the rating being the same.

+ An excellent replacement fot the fourteen year old Sharp I had. Loved the fact that it is white with loads of refinements, compared to what I had. Not too noisy either.

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+ Looks Great, Bigger Inside Like Tardis.

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+ So far it appears to be satis. but I have only used it for basic microwave jobs.

- None so far.

+ The grill is very efficient and as it has 3 settings one can choose how quickly the food needs to cook. i haven't yet tried the combination cooking method.
It offers lots of features and yet it is nice and compact and easy to clean, and looks very attractive.

- The jacket potato programme is not so good, the microwave gets very hot at the top but still the potato isn't fully cooked. I find it much more effective to cook them on Microwave full power for 10minutes.

+ nice and compacked

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+ Slimness of product as I have a small kitchen so it fits perfectly on my worktop.

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+ Generally a good product. Easy to use and clean

- Does not seem to have any

+ Good value for money, smart design and well made

- Can't find any

+ Powerful microwave with a small footprint.

- The autocook feature is misleading. I was expecting an auto sensor as my previous Panasonic Combi had but for auto cook the weight has to be inputted manually before you start and it doesn't seem very accurate.

+ This is a neat and compact, stylish appliance which sems to do everything claimed of it. Due to its multi-features, it takes a bit of time to get used to (but you don'e use all of its features every day, do you?) but, when you know what you're doing it's all quite straightforward. Don't forget to read the manual!

- Haven't found any yet.

+ It looks great and it has additional functions - grill and conventional oven. In theory it should speed up cooking times considerably and be a useful extra oven when entertaining.

- In practice it is so hard to understand the multitude of information in the instructions that I end up not using it to its full potential. I am hoping that as I become more familiar with the product it will be a justified extra expense but at the moment I am wishing I had just stuck to a basic microwave. It could be pilot error - ask me again in six months time!