Ignis Scientia (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chef_chocobro) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomhigh2021-02-05 04:37 am
chef_chocobro) wrote in fandomhigh2021-02-05 04:37 am
Entry tags:
Culinary Fundamentals; Friday, First Period [02/05].
"Welcome back, everyone," Ignis greeted the class as usual from the front of the room, tossing something small and round in his hand casually, but very gently, until everyone was settled at their stations and no doubt noticed that each one contained a likely very recognizable carton. "You've all been doing very well in the exploration of the basics on a very broad sense, so from here on in, we'll very likely be narrowing our focus in on specific dishes. Again, if there's anything in particular you would like to tackle in class, please let me know and I'll be happy to work it into the syllabus, but for now, I thought we'd turn our attention toward a very common, versatile food, one that is rather deceptive in its simplicity, and that is the humble egg."
With that, he tossed the egg in his hand up a little higher, catching it easily, and holding it up before a flip of his wrist cradled it back in his palm and he set that one aside.
"There are a great many ways eggs can be prepared, but today, we're going to focus on six of the most basic and on perfecting those before we delve into things more complicated. There is much to be said about having a mastery over the simple basics."
"Let us start, then," he said, moving around to the other side of the station at the front of the class room so he could begin breaking down the different styles in earnest, "with the soft boiled egg..."
Which moved naturally into hard boiled, then poaching, then frying...both 'sunny-side up' and the much more delicate 'over easy', and then "when all else fails," scrambled, all explained in the patient, low-key passionate way he had even managed to approach something like boiling water in earlier classes.
"A little salt, a little pepper, should be all you need to truly enhance the flavor of a well-prepared egg, and you're finished. Sound simple enough, right? Well, then. Let's see if it's as easy in practice as it sounds in theory! Any questions before we begin?"
With that, he tossed the egg in his hand up a little higher, catching it easily, and holding it up before a flip of his wrist cradled it back in his palm and he set that one aside.
"There are a great many ways eggs can be prepared, but today, we're going to focus on six of the most basic and on perfecting those before we delve into things more complicated. There is much to be said about having a mastery over the simple basics."
"Let us start, then," he said, moving around to the other side of the station at the front of the class room so he could begin breaking down the different styles in earnest, "with the soft boiled egg..."
Which moved naturally into hard boiled, then poaching, then frying...both 'sunny-side up' and the much more delicate 'over easy', and then "when all else fails," scrambled, all explained in the patient, low-key passionate way he had even managed to approach something like boiling water in earlier classes.
"A little salt, a little pepper, should be all you need to truly enhance the flavor of a well-prepared egg, and you're finished. Sound simple enough, right? Well, then. Let's see if it's as easy in practice as it sounds in theory! Any questions before we begin?"
Sign In - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Re: Sign In - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Re: Sign In - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Re: Sign In - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Re: Sign In - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Listen to the Lecture - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Re: Listen to the Lecture - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Nina was not paying the least bit attention to the lecture today as she bounced about ignoring Ignis as she worked on setting up the plates and forks napkins she'd bought along with affixing the banner along the back wall and, along the way, back sticking a hat on Iggy's head.
(She did not expect him to wear it for long, admittedly...)
And then she unveiled her cake. Strawberry and creamcheese chiffon cake? Yes, please.
Re: Listen to the Lecture - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Not. In. The. Slightest.
Did he keep steadily on the course of his lecture the whole time she was doing it?
Of course. He was a professional.
It was only until the hat was on his head and the last egg was scrambled that he said, "Nina. My birthday isn't even until Sunday."
Re: Listen to the Lecture - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
She beamed up at him.
"But today's the closest your class can get to celebrating it with you!!!!!!!!!" she said earnestly. "Next Friday would be even less accurate!!!!!!!!!"
Class Activity: Eggs! - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
Wait, no, that's a different ingredient for another class!
Today, you get to boil 'em, poach 'em, flip 'em and scramble 'em to your heart's content. Ignis will come around and see how you do and is fully prepared to experience the wide gammut of egg preparation today.
Re: Class Activity: Eggs! - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
But Troy was trying to get it right! He even did pretty well on the ones you didn't have to open! But the whole idea of breaking an egg delicately took him a while to really pick up on, and, once he did, he went overboard with the delicacy and they became more like careful little love taps more than anything else.
Talk to Ignis - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.
OOC - Culinary Fundamentals, 02/05.