Next, I tested a Junior Menu programme. Each press of the button scrolled through available programmes (there are eight) and there’s a chart in the instructions to tell you which to use. I chose the purée vegetables programme for cooking 300g potatoes with water. This gave a time of nine minutes plus standing.

Next up is material. Read through the product description for Panasonic 1000W Combination Microwave Oven 27L NN-CD58-Steel to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material.If the brand you buy is important to you, our best advice is to spend some time writing up your own list of ideal brands. That way when you come to the point where you’re comparing product options you can filter to only show the products from brands in your list. The first is brand. Looking at the brand of the product is often a really good indicator for judging product quality. For example you’d expect a much higher quality product from a brand known for providing excellent quality than you would from an unknown or even a budget brand. About halfway through there was an alert to stir the potatoes. After the time had elapsed, the potatoes were just soft enough to mash. The next step after looking at products in the same category, was to look at products from the same brand, Panasonic. Find out why Panasonic 1000W Combination Microwave Oven 27L NN-CD58-Steel scored an incredible review score of 9.0 out of 10.

The NN-CD58JSBPQ’s combi capabilities are impressive, too, using conventional fanned heat or grilling with microwaving, plus clever inverter technology to cook casseroles, pasta, fish, veg, roast meat and more up to 40% faster than other combination and grill oven. The oven’s precise heat claims to help preserve vitamins and nutrients, too. Panasonic NN-CD58JSBPQ Combination Microwave Oven – Design and features As well as cyclic defrost (bursts of power and standing), the oven offers chaos defrost that’s tailored to foods such as bread and meat. This uses a random sequence of microwaving based on type and weight for faster, more even results.The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully Panasonic is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the Microwaves category. The next step for us was to look at all of the products that fall within the Microwaves category, of which we found 69 products at Argos. So we pulled together all of the prices of these products to analyse the average prices as well as finding the cheapest and most expensive options.