Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok, that may be a slight exaggeration but it's not that far off. Still if nothing else, it has definitely saved my sanity. I usually eat one of two things at work for lunch, either leftovers (which I love because my wife's cooking is awesome) or when we don't have anything leftover I usually have a can of soup. I don't get much time for lunch and it's simple and fast. The problem is that I had been using this bowl for cooking my soup. It was a really nice ceramic bowl, I got it as a wedding present but it was a completely different design than all of our other dishes. I'm not really sure who got it for us or why they thought one bowl might come in handy...But long story short this bowl followed me like a lost puppy to work one day and that is what I have been using to cook my soup in for years. And in the grand scheme of things it worked decently enough, in so much that it's a bowl, and it held an entire can of soup. What was not so great was that it got incredibly hot and I had to use about seven paper towels (the thin crappy industrial brown ones) folded over a bunch of times to make a trivet with which to transport my heated soup. Not to mention there was no splatter protection, so I actually ended up getting pretty good at making all sorts of paper towel origami in an attempt to make covers out of those awful thin paper towels that hopefully wouldn't fall into my soup... although they usually did. But even that was not the biggest issue that I had. The biggest problem that I encountered is when they replaced our small residential grade microwaves in the break room with huge industrial ones. Now it seemed that about 1 out of every 4 or 5 cans of soup I cooked ended up wasted when something (a potato maybe) would explode around a minute into the cooking time and flip the entire bowl of soup. Not only wasting my lunch and leaving me very hungry but creating a huge mess that I had to spend half my lunch break cleaning up. I eventually got to the point where I would heat up the soup for a few seconds, then wait, then repeat, over and over until the soup was heated up. Although even that method wasn't foolproof, and I still lost at least one bowl of soup and had a couple close calls. It was seriously starting to feel like I was playing Russian Roulette with my lunch and I had to find a solution. Enter the Systema Soup Mug. Now not only do I no longer need to clear entire rain forests just to make paper towel nests to transport my forty two thousand degree bowl. I can also feel free to heat my soup with reckless abandon. I set the microwave for two and a half minutes and despite the fact that it sounds like the microwave is carpet bombing my lunch, the soup remains in the bowl, upright, and not splattered all over the place. So let me sum it up for you, if you need to regain a bit of your sanity and you like soup get this bowl. Right now. Seriously, go buy one.