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fandomhigh2014-09-07 10:47 pm
throughaphase) wrote in fandomhigh2014-09-07 10:47 pm
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Technology and You- Monday- 1st period
Today the class was meeting in the Home Ec room. Also, the teacher was looking pretty damn happy to have her memory, so you were all going to have to deal with that.
"Sorry about this weekend, Fandom sucks sometimes," Kitty said. "But everyone's got their memories back now, so we're starting the day off with learning about something you may or may not have experience with: the kitchen. Now, this isn't a cooking class, so I'm keeping it simple. Anything I show you, there will be instructions on the package telling you what you need and how much, so, simple. But I want to make sure you know how to use the stove, the oven, the microwave, and the coffee maker so the common room's a little easier for you.
"To use the stove, we're going to be making soup," she went on, showing them an already-opened box of noodle soup, and then filling a pot with water and putting it on the stove. "Fill the pot with water, put it on the stove, turn it on, and you just dump the noodles and seasoning in till it starts boiling, then lower the heat until the noodles are kind of tender. There are two kinds of stoves you'll find in a modern day kitchen, gas and electric. If you turn it on and the burner has a flame, it's gas. If it doesn't, it's electric. Make sure you turn everything off when you're done, especially if it's gas because you don't want that seeping in."
She then moved to the stove, where she held up a frozen pizza. "This is easy. To do this, you turn the stove on to whatever temperature it says on the package, like this," she said, turning on the oven so that they could see. "Then you preheat it for like ten minutes, just so the oven's hot when you put the food in and it cooks right. We're going to pretend we did that, and just put this one in now. You want to leave it in for whatever time it says on the package, or until the cheese gets all melty and the crust gets a light brown. Then turn the oven off and take the pizza out.
"Now. The microwave," Kitty said, leading them to one. She picked up a bag of microwave popcorn and said, "A lot of stuff can be put in here to cook, or you can heat up leftovers by putting it in for a few seconds. This is popcorn. Again, there are instructions on it, but you just put it inside like this, and turn the microwave on. Every microwave is different, so you have to be careful to make sure you don't over- or undercook something, so check on what you're cooking now and then. For popcorn, most microwaves will have a popcorn button on it, so you can press that, and hit start. It will burn if you leave it in too long and it smells gross, so when you hear it stop popping, it's time to take it out.
"And finally the coffee maker." She led them to that and started doing the steps as she talked about them. "You want to get a filter, and put a couple scoops of coffee grounds in there. You can adjust for taste. Make sure you have the filter, or the grounds go right into the coffee, and then it's gross. You put the filter into the coffee maker like this, then get the water. You want to know how big your coffee maker is first. This one makes six cups of coffee, so you want six cups of water to pour in here like this. Then you turn it on, and wait till it stops brewing.
"That's all pretty easy, right? You're all going to make some of this stuff. If you can't get to everything that's fine, but you should have enough time to do everything. I'll be around to help, and when you're done, enjoy breakfast."
"Sorry about this weekend, Fandom sucks sometimes," Kitty said. "But everyone's got their memories back now, so we're starting the day off with learning about something you may or may not have experience with: the kitchen. Now, this isn't a cooking class, so I'm keeping it simple. Anything I show you, there will be instructions on the package telling you what you need and how much, so, simple. But I want to make sure you know how to use the stove, the oven, the microwave, and the coffee maker so the common room's a little easier for you.
"To use the stove, we're going to be making soup," she went on, showing them an already-opened box of noodle soup, and then filling a pot with water and putting it on the stove. "Fill the pot with water, put it on the stove, turn it on, and you just dump the noodles and seasoning in till it starts boiling, then lower the heat until the noodles are kind of tender. There are two kinds of stoves you'll find in a modern day kitchen, gas and electric. If you turn it on and the burner has a flame, it's gas. If it doesn't, it's electric. Make sure you turn everything off when you're done, especially if it's gas because you don't want that seeping in."
She then moved to the stove, where she held up a frozen pizza. "This is easy. To do this, you turn the stove on to whatever temperature it says on the package, like this," she said, turning on the oven so that they could see. "Then you preheat it for like ten minutes, just so the oven's hot when you put the food in and it cooks right. We're going to pretend we did that, and just put this one in now. You want to leave it in for whatever time it says on the package, or until the cheese gets all melty and the crust gets a light brown. Then turn the oven off and take the pizza out.
"Now. The microwave," Kitty said, leading them to one. She picked up a bag of microwave popcorn and said, "A lot of stuff can be put in here to cook, or you can heat up leftovers by putting it in for a few seconds. This is popcorn. Again, there are instructions on it, but you just put it inside like this, and turn the microwave on. Every microwave is different, so you have to be careful to make sure you don't over- or undercook something, so check on what you're cooking now and then. For popcorn, most microwaves will have a popcorn button on it, so you can press that, and hit start. It will burn if you leave it in too long and it smells gross, so when you hear it stop popping, it's time to take it out.
"And finally the coffee maker." She led them to that and started doing the steps as she talked about them. "You want to get a filter, and put a couple scoops of coffee grounds in there. You can adjust for taste. Make sure you have the filter, or the grounds go right into the coffee, and then it's gross. You put the filter into the coffee maker like this, then get the water. You want to know how big your coffee maker is first. This one makes six cups of coffee, so you want six cups of water to pour in here like this. Then you turn it on, and wait till it stops brewing.
"That's all pretty easy, right? You're all going to make some of this stuff. If you can't get to everything that's fine, but you should have enough time to do everything. I'll be around to help, and when you're done, enjoy breakfast."
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He went to work on cooking though, going for a simple soup recipe because it was easy and he knew it tasted good.
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Unfortunately, the dried noodles were not. He wound up scorching them just a bit by means even he wouldn't be able to explain.
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And yes, she had her phone set out beside her, with an active Google search going for drip brewing coffee, so by the end of the class period she could probably give you a pretty good general idea of how many scoops to use to how many cups of water depending on how strong you wanted your coffee to be.
Nerd.
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It didn't look nearly as appealing frozen, but she supposed most things that were made this way probably didn't. It took her an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to preheat the oven (pre-heat? Was it not heating, actively, and thus there was no pre- to it?) Once that was accomplished, though, she found herself peeking in at it every minute or so, lest the thing burn without her knowledge.
She didn't know how to cook, or use a modern oven. It seemed like a likely possibility.
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One of these days, she'd have to get used to rising earlier than noon. Today was not that day.
"You can have some pizza, if I don't burn it beyond recognition." So optimistic.
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He knew she was going away soon on that trip that was too dangerous for him to come along on. He did his best not to let it show how much it bothered him, and found the best way was to avoid the topic for the moment.
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She was fairly firmly on board with the not-mentioning-Rapture plan, considering she knew he was still upset about it. (She was still upset about it, and extraordinarily nervous when she let herself think about it at all.)
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*grumble*
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Cooking was boring men's work! Okay, or a solo huntress's who didn't live somewhere they would bring you food. Surely there was more interesting technology they could be covering?
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Probably not really.