A side note here:

I was making dinner last night and cursing at the onion powder. Seems every time I buy some, it hardens quicker than super-glue and all I have is a pretty spice jar filled with onion-smelling cement. Visions of my post were already swirling in my head:

"If I ever buy onion powder again, EVER, can someone just come over here and kill me?"

I wuz gonna pour boiling water over it but I didn't want to crack the lovely little jar. Then I thought, Let's nuke it! Even if it explodes, I can pick out the onion powder from between the glass shards (shows ya just how desperate I was.) I zapped it for 30 seconds

...and it worked!! or at least, softened it enough so I could dig some out. So do the math girlfriends: I've been throwing out onion powder rocks for How many decades? and I've owned a nuke box for how many decades? and it's taken me how long to figure this out? This is probably an apt commentary on my cooking accumen.

If anyone has already called Guido & Co., please cancel the contract...