# Tell us about a product that you were pleasantly surprised by its usefulness **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-a-product-that-you-were-pleasantly-surprised-by-its-usefulness/971838 "2022-09-19T16:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 91
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-a-product-that-you-were-pleasantly-surprised-by-its-usefulness/971838/91 "2022-12-27T20:50:52Z")
I posted elsewhere about [how our microwave exploded](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-your-microwave-explode/976518) and had to be replaced. We wanted to build in some redundancy with out kitchen appliances, and so the replacement is one which is a microwave, an oven and a grill. So you can oven things, and microwave things and grill things - _and_ combine functions. Er - why? Woah, that’s odd. Never had anything like that before. Take _Gözleme_, for example - a Turkish stuffed bread, which is difficult to source so I have to bulk buy and freeze it. But how to defrost and warm it? An oven scorches the bread before the filling is warm; a microwave does a lovely job on the filling but turns the bread to a soggy mass. Simultaneous hot oven and low microwave power? Perfect in four minutes from frozen.\* We’ve had this fella for less than two weeks, and I’m genuinely excited about the possibilities. I may just start a thread to see if I can learn from other dopers experiences. j \* - OK, we preheated the oven for a few minutes - but maybe you don’t need to do that. Dunno - yet. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-a-product-that-you-were-pleasantly-surprised-by-its-usefulness/971838)._