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The_Fatman wrote:

The unit this replaced ran for at least 15 years (Panasonic also, but a
'Genius'...perhaps 'Ingenius' would have been a better name, since it ran
for 5 times as long at half the price, w/o so much as a burnt out bulb
even and withstood being dropped, twice.)

I also had poor reliability from a Panasonic inverter-type microwave
oven. It died (completely) after less than two years. Our previous
microwave (a Kenmore, I think) had run for about 20 years.

I googled around a bit and concluded that none of the consumer-branded
microwave ovens on the market today was likely to be significantly
better than the Panasonic... reliability has gone badly downhill in
recent years, due to the "race the bottom" price-wise, and the
infatuation with fancy features.

I ended up buying a "medium-level food service" grade microwave (an
Amana commercial model). So far, so good. You can even get these
with the old-style rotary-knob timers, rather than pushbuttons and
microprocessor logic.

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