Things that work: I have a small microwave oven with a turntable inside. I think it was only about $60. I use it these days to warm up cups of soup after I blend the ingredients together. So far I've tried chicken noodle, ham and bean, egg drop, hot and sour, mushroom. As long as I run the blender enough so that there are no chunks and it is thin and smooth, I can "eat" it. Drink it is more like it. I cannot yet eat the residue that often settles to the bottom: unblended bits of chicken, or ham, go uneaten. Tonight I blended creamy chicken rice. It was tasty! The wild rice took extra time in the blender. I thin the various soups with chicken or beef stock about 50/50. But what I like about my my microwave is a function where I push a single button and it runs for 30 or 60 or 90, etc., for each time I push it, and the handle of the cup is always rotated back to its original position, so I can just reach in and grab the handle. The turntable rotates four or five times in 30 seconds and the handle of the cup is on the door side in the same spot as when I put it in. It reminds me of the moon's rotation and orbit. They are in sync so that the same side of the moon always faces earth. If we were living a hundred thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years from now it would be different. We would see a slight rotation of the moon's surface over time. The most plausible explanation of the moon's creation is that it resulted from a giant collision of planet sized bodies in space a few billion years ago and after millions and millions of years the debris coalesced into the two celestial bodies that exist now and that originally the moon filled 1/3 of the sky it was so close. Did you know that the moon is receding from the earth 1.5 inches per year? Tidal forces are the apparent cause of the recession. So since Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon in July of 1969 it is appr. 77 inches farther away. The coincidence of the moon's rotation and its orbit virtually matching at a time when we can look at it is remarkable as is the handle of my soup cup always returning to the door side of my microwave oven. And by the way, did you know the microwave as a potential cooking tool was discovered by Percy Spencer in 1945 when he was working on a magnetron tube, a component of military radar, and noticed the melting chocolate bar in his pocket?