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Chopped: Overstock Edition ; Tuesday, Second Period [07//28].

"Welcome back again to another exciting week of seeing just how terrible half of you are at cooking!" Summer started the class cheerfully. "By now, you know the drill, so we're just going to get right to it, and I'll just mention two things before we get to the exciting reveal of what you guys will have to cook with this week. The first is that I promise this time there is no tea. And the second?"

There was a dramatic pause.

"I've removed all the blenders from the kitchen this time around, because seriously, you guys? Smoothies? I expect better from you all. That said, let's begin!"

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Sans blender! Or sans tea!

Wayne

Seivarden Vendaai

Tahani al-Jamil

Nell Ingram

"Alright, everyone," Summer said, "it's time to open your baskets! This week, your ingredients are:

Strawberries
Chocolate Milk
Carrots

"No theme, no smoothies, and, obviously, you have full range of what's in the pantry and the kitchen, with the exception of blenders because y'all had to go and ruin that last week. On your marks, get set...cook!"

Wayne was just going to take a moment, frowning thoughtfully into his basket with a hand at his chin, as he considered a few possibilities on where to take this one.

As if just squinting into the basket might not only spark some ideas, but would also cause the ingredients to get right on up out of that basket themselves and put themselves together in an acceptable way.

So, at least no tea. Seivarden decided to chop up the strawberries, grate the carrots and mix it with some chocolate milk.

Tahani tapped her lips with her finger as she thought, then reached for a packet of puff pastry.

If she couldn't make a smoothie, she would go for the next best cop-out: a soggy Napoleon because the pastry never cooks in time, plus an carrot ice cream that literally no one asked for.

Over-churned, of course. So...strawberry-not-chocolatey enough Napoleons with carrot butter. Mmmmm.

Honestly, though, if someone does manage to make a smoothie without any blenders, she might still be kind of impressed, but also, very much not.

"It's a dessert," Seivarden said, gesturing towards the contents of the bowl.

"You didn't even cook anything!" Summer said, after a moment, after looking a the bowl, then looking at Seivarden, and then back at the bowl, and then back at Seivarden witheringly. "This is arguably less work than a smoothie."

"I didn't realise it should be hard work," Seivarden said. "The ingredients are best suited for a dessert."

"That," stated Summer, poking at the contents of the bowl with a spoon now, "has got to be one if the saddest excuses for a dessert I have ever seen. You do know you can use other ingredients, too, right? You could have at least made it into a jello, Seivarden."

It was a little sad, how no one had made a jello yet.

"I don't know how to make a jello," Seivarden said. "You'd have to teach me."

"Well, it's not like you even tried," Summer countered, "or asked."

She huffed a little frustrated sigh before then just looking thoughtfully at Seivarden for a moment.

"Come on, then," she said, picking up the bowl and gesturing for Seivarden to follow her back to her cooking station. "Since it took you all of two seconds to throw that together and we still have a full class period ahead of us, let's save this miserable dessert and make some jello."

Seivarden followed her. "Maybe we could add some alcohol."

Seivarden. Seivarden.

"It's second period and this is a classroom," Summer reminded her, "and I don't trust someone who wlmixes strawberries and carrots and milk in a bowl and calls that dessert," or just Seivarden in general, considering her drinking habits, "to not mess up the ratios to keep in mind when you add alcohol. We start simple. First, you're going to want to start by getting two cups of water boiling."

"But the alcohol would be the only reason someone would want to eat it," Seivarden said, but she did as Summer instructed.

Yeah, at least Summer could trust Seivarden to at least heat up water.

"I bet you anything," said Summer, "that I could get more people to eat your so-called dessert if it was encased in jello than I would as you presented it. That's why presentation is important. Speaking of presentation, while the water boils, go into the pantry and grab four packets of gelatin and pick out which mold you want to use for it, too."

Seivarden returned with the gelatin and an ordinary-looking mold.

"Who actually uses a brain-shaped mold?"

She had decided against that one, yes.

"Brains are actually considered a delicacy in many cultures," Summer informed her smoothly, "don't be insensitive! Plus, it's really good for, like, Halloween or as a gag or to make models out of or if you really trying to be realistic when making a dummy for faking a death or something."

Was the fact that she had all those reasons in her pocket without even needing to think about them somewhat worrisome?

"Anyway, go ahead and stray the mold with some non-stick spray so the jello doesn't stick to it, and then get a large bowl filled with ice water before we start dissolving the gelatin, this is going to just make things easier in a few minutes."

Seivarden did as she was told.

"So this is what you do every week?"

Summer shrugged a little. "Pretty much," she said, "yeah. The jello itself is pretty easy, the fun part comes in with what add to it and how your present it and stuff. That's where the real creativity comes in.

"Okay," she then offered, "if your water's boiling, go ahead and pour it into the smaller bowl, and then add the packets of gelatin. Once they've dissolved, you want to add two cups of cold water, and then you're going to put that smaller bowl in the bowl with the ice water, and then start stirring it. That's going to get it to thicken up, and since we're adding shit to it, we want to get it to a nice thickness so it can actually hold all the carrots and strawberries."

She feels she's going easy on you all this week, because maybe she might actually get something inspired for a change.

Chocolate and strawberries is very promising, and if this gets messed up, it's hopeless.

Aaaand now I want strawberries, damn.

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