I have since purchased an immersion blender. It works great for pea soup, black bean soup, etc.
I recently was loading the rice cooker while obviously thinking about something else. I had the removable bowl out of the cooker, with rice soaking in water in it. But rather than sticking the whole bowl into the cooker, I brain-farted and poured the whole thing into the empty cooker.
With no bowl part in place, the water and rice went inside the mechanism. The water shorted out the electrical bits, blowing the GFCI for the whole half of the kitchen, then poured out the bottom all over the counter and the floor. Had a lot of trouble figuring out which GFCI outlet needed resetting. This led to pulling out the whole stove, searching for another outlet in the circuit that didn’t exist, before I realized that one that popped had some gunk in it making the button hard to push in, so it seemed like it was already pushed. Thankfully, once it all dried out, the rice cooker continued to work, but months later, uncooked rice still falls out of vents in the bottom from time to time. It sounds like a maraca when you pick it up.
Ever drop frozen shrimp into a pan of hot oil? Don’t do that. Lucky I didn’t burn our apartment down in college.