I've been thinking about adding a microscope to my list of must-have kitchen appliances. I now have a basic one to play with. The idea is that maybe I can see something useful while making dough, cheese, meat, (etc.) under the microscope that I couldn't see otherwise. It has yet to be seen if I can view anything valuable under it, but I will keep trying. Here's a picture of milk under the microscope, taken with my cell phone camera through the microscope's eyepiece:
If nothing else, it looks like a cartoon dragon if you use your imagination:
