Creative Cooking With a Focus on Pudding - Thursday, 3rd Period

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Soda machines add water and carbon dioxide to a premade syrup. It's a very fixed, mechanical process. And there's certainly no room for any bubbling before the mixing happens.

Thus, there was no valid reason for loud bubbling and hissing coming from the Home Ec room.

The room was once again bedecked in ingredients and equipment; this time soda fountains lined the walls. Big lighted tanks of bubbling, colored water illuminated the room, colors bounching off sinks and over the faces of the class. Where one might expect a label, masking tape prevailed, covering the names of the various sodas and flavors.

"Hallo, class!" Wonka was at his desk, with a clear glass of carbonated water and several vials of syrup.

"I do hope that you enjoyed your time off last week. But we're two months in now, and there's no time to delay! Today, we shall be having a pop quiz.

"You're going to pair off and use your ice creams to make floats for each other!" He began to pour first one, then another syrup into the glass, creating distinct layers. "You'll use your partner's ice cream and the soda fountains in the room to create something novel, and hopefully at least marginally visually pleasing. You are both allowed and encouraged to ask them about the makeup of their ice cream, and for feedback as you mix."

He took a look at his creation. The bubbles were growing and popping within each layer, regardless of the rest of the liquids in the glass. "The catch here is that I expect you to know your flavours by now, so you will have to seek out something that works by trial and error. No relying on combinations that sound right. Only what tastes right."

He took a sudden swig of his mixture. It sloshed and rolled, then settled back into layers. When he spoke again, his voice squeaked out, unnaturally high. "Hop to it, class!"

Perhaps some of these soda machines were not using carbon dioxide.