Warning: Bowl WILL be hot

Usually when there's a warning label, there's a reason for it.  I bought this miso soup at the Christmas Tree Store in Delaware, yes they had miso soup there.  It was cheap too, only $1.99!  I actually ended up buying more of them even though I hadn't tried it out, darn their yummy pictures on the box.

I decided to bring it into work today to "save" some money on lunch, and followed the instructions as directed on the box.  It said that the bowl would be hot once it came out of the microwave.  Yeah, I've read that places before and it can't be that hot.  Well it is that hot!  The bowl isn't those styrofoam bowls, it's a plastic bowl which heats up pretty fast. 

I ended up spilling some of the very hot soup on my hand while carrying it out of the microwave, of course, I couldn't just let go of it or else all the soup would have spilled.  So as I'm there holding the bowl of hot soup with two hands, one of them red from the burn and trembling from the pain, I notice a line start to form behind me for the microwave. 

Of couse I had a little audience that I was unaware of because I was just so focused on the soup.  Cleaned up the spill, then put about 20 - 30 napkins on the top and bottom so that I could hold it and walk back to my desk as fast as I could! 

Had to let my fan blow on the soup for a few minutes to let it cool down, since I already had a burnt hand, I didn't want a burnt mouth either where I wouldn't be able to taste anything.  The soup is pretty good, had some udon noodles too which was a good touch.  It wasn't the dry noodles that I'm used to with "Cup O Noodles" but it was actually in it's own packaging within the bowl. 

Good stuff, but next time I'll go when there's less traffic, so that I won't put on another spill and burn show for the office.

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