While I was looking up the Panasonic auto menu presets I saw a chart floating around so figured it was worth a discussion as many peoples dont have the booklet to refer to. Each number is a preset cooking program and the time is calculate from the program and the weight of the food you enter into the microwave.
The list of these programs is as follows: 1 Auto Reheat, 2 Reheat Fried Rice, 3 Congee/Porridge, 4 Instant Noodles, 5 Double Boil, 6 Vegetables, 7 Potatoes, 8 Fish, 9 Chicken, 10 Casserole Rice. So it isnt power levels like many people might assume but rather food categories. For instance, if you press the Chicken button and enter the weight 400g the microwave will heat the chicken for around 5 minute.
The internal workings of the weight settings is based upon a lookup table for each of these programs. For instance, steaming a 400g fish is not the same as cooking 400g of chicken so the time needed for each would not be the same. A sensor on some of the higher end Panasonic microwaves will override the weight input.
The list of these programs is as follows: 1 Auto Reheat, 2 Reheat Fried Rice, 3 Congee/Porridge, 4 Instant Noodles, 5 Double Boil, 6 Vegetables, 7 Potatoes, 8 Fish, 9 Chicken, 10 Casserole Rice. So it isnt power levels like many people might assume but rather food categories. For instance, if you press the Chicken button and enter the weight 400g the microwave will heat the chicken for around 5 minute.
The internal workings of the weight settings is based upon a lookup table for each of these programs. For instance, steaming a 400g fish is not the same as cooking 400g of chicken so the time needed for each would not be the same. A sensor on some of the higher end Panasonic microwaves will override the weight input.