Panasonic’s latest professional microwave, the NE-1878 with inverter technology and full metal door, has been given ‘approved product’ status by the Craft Guild of Chefs, achieving 173 points from a total of 180, following testing as part of its Product Endorsement Scheme.
The NE-1878 is the world’s first commercial microwave to come with inverter technology and a full metal door.
All chefs that were involved in the testing agreed that the oven offered ‘huge advantages’ to their operations, saying, “We used this in one of our outlets that is customer facing, the perception of this being an oven and not a microwave is excellent, it fitted in alongside all other equipment and didn’t at all look like a microwave, this again could be a great selling point for customer-facing, open restaurants” and “We were really impressed at the even cooking ability of this product; we even tested delicate fish and it performed really well.”