That cooks food, and I'll show you how to use it later. It takes some getting used to, and we had trouble with it, at first.

As for explanations...no, we didn't. They almost never explain anything to us.

[She begins to root around the kitchen, checking to see what they have in the way of snack stuff.]

Hm...we have fresh fruit, muffins from the bakery, a salad I cut up earlier, and there's leftover pizza....