Wouldn’t it be great if rather than just taking up a chunk of space in your kitchen, you could actually rely on your microwave for cooking meals? With inverter technology, you can.

This Panasonic microwave heats well, is easy to use, and has a useful sensor reheating setting. Here's why it won the top spot in our guide.

Other inverters send their waves out in a single plane -- including the inverter in Panasonic's original Genius Prestige microwave .

Wouldn’t it be great if rather than just taking up a chunk of space in your kitchen, you could actually rely on your microwave for cooking meals? With inverter technology, you can.