fandomhigh | Iron Fandom, Wednesday

The tent from last week was gone and in its place was a bright chrome kitchen with the words Iron Fandom written on the vents. Next to individual tables stood the sous chefs, looking quiet and professional--though Pinkie's braids were starting starting to unravel on her sous chef's head.

Special guest judge Hardison walked into the Danger Shop, looked at the sous chefs, and burst out laughing. "Everythin' about this class is perfect an' beautiful," he announced. And then continued to laugh.

You girls do your thing. He was going to be busy for a little while. With the giggles.

"Welcome back, everyone." Raven threw Hardison a smile and a wink, then faced the class. She was getting better and better at this whole 'faking it until she made it' business. She almost even felt normal this week. "And welcome our very special guest judge of the week, computer guru and lord of the world's most perfect food (hot pockets): Hardison!"

The APPLAUSE sign appeared again, encouraging the students to clap for their guest judge.

Hardison, still chortling, gave a little wave. "Hey," he greeted the class, trying to talk through his laugher. "I was--I was told that today's special ingredient is bread, so uhh..." He glanced back to the braided sous chef and lost it, flailing at Kathy to continue.

Kathy was also smiling, mostly at how positively gleeful Hardison looked. "He's right," she said. "Today's Iron Fandom--" pause for the musical sting "--will feature bread as the main ingredient that needs to be featured in your appetizer, main course, and dessert. White, wheat, baguettes, ciabatta, even pita if you want. There are plenty of different types of bread for you to choose from."

"You can also try cooking your own, if you think you'll have time," Raven added. "But we only have an hour, so try not to over-do it. I . . . think you guys probably know the deal now? Hardison, do you have any sage advice?"

"Hmm?" Hardison put his phone back in his pocket, trying to look innocent and not like he'd been taking pictures of the sous chefs. "Oh, uhh, use your time wisely?" he suggested, sneaking another peek at the holograms. "An' make sure you use your--" he started snickering again "--sous chefs--" more giggles "--to their full potential..."

Yeah, he was done. And cackling.

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...Still now really a lecture, but Kathy would be happy to talk about the history of bread or its cultural impact if anyone was really missing an educational component of the class.

...Yes, she did more homework for this class than she assigned.

Pinkie Pie considered fixing her sous chef's braids.

But why would she do that when she could put his hair in fluffy pigtails instead?

The chefs must create three courses: an appetizer, a main dish, and dessert, all of which use bread.

Bread in any form. This should be a cake walk, except there's no cake. Unless it's bread cake. Or you're feeling particularly creative!

Pinkie was thinking sandwiches. All the sandwiches. There had to be some marshmallow fluff around here somewhere, right?

... Oooh. Eric grinned as today's featured ingredient was announced. He had ideas.

...For it's your place to BE judged.

All three judges were sitting behind a table, waiting to hear all about your dish.

[RNG says today that Eric is the winner, yay!]

"Okay, well," Eric said, when it came time to introduce his creations. "For the appetizer, there's mozzarella garlic bread. The main dish is chicken crepes with tarragon... and the dessert is grilled chocolate sandwiches topped with a scoop of ice cream."

"Can you give me a reason why crepes are bread?" Raven asked. "I mean, I'm not saying they're not. But you're gonna have to argue it first."

"~~Mostly because they were on the wikipedia article list~~ Well, the basic requirements for a bread are that it have some sort of meal- like flour- as a main ingredient, mixed with a liquid like milk or water. A leavening agent is present in what many of us from western societies would consider the default version of 'bread', of course, but isn't actually necessary to define it as such. So, crepes would fall under that definition, I'd think."

Raven shrugged. "Works for me. Though you might have to take Kathy up on her 'no cake' rule then." Raven had never been as much for technicalities as Kathy anyway. "I am totally tempted to start with the dessert here. Not going to lie. That looks amazing."

Hopefully at some point, your special guest judge will even stop chortling.

No, really. Kathy was all set to talk to you about bread if that was what you needed.

Hardison had his phone back out and was stealthily taking pics to send to Parker.

And also harass Eliot with.

"Last week I offered to turn into him, too," Raven said. "You know, for maximum clone potential. He looked at me like I'd offered to kill his puppy."

"Eliot isn't much for whimsy," Hardison declared. "I support your decisions to turn into Eliot, TA."

"Of course you do," Raven said. "That's why you're the best."

Raven didn't actually know much about bread, other than eating it. But she was willing to fake it with the best of them!

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