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Camp Cooking Essentials; Thursday, Third Period [05/11].
Like quite a few other classes over the summer, Ignis' class would be meeting out of the classroom and into the great outdoors instead, although, considering his roster, as small as it may be, there was a part of him that was wondering if everyone would be better off with this class being held in the danger shop instead of out in the old campground in the preserve.
Well. Fires had been a bit more of a thing around here, lately, so at least the fire department was relatively...warmed up.
He met the students on the edge of the preserve, listening carefully for their arrive, and, when he did hear someone coming up, greeted them with a simple, "Do me a favor and introduce yourself as you arrive. It will be better for me to know when we have everyone if you do."
But it was a thankfully small class, so once everyone had informed him to their presence, he nodded, and go started. "Welcome to Camp Cooking Essentials, a survey in various techniques and equipment to allow one to still manage to make excellent and fulfilling meals even when resources are scarce. For those of you who I've not had the pleasure to meet yet, my name is Ignis Scientia, and my former position as my team's chef required me to often cook in unexpected and inconvenient places, often in very tenuous circumstances, as well. However, even if one does not plan to spend a lot of time out-of-doors, these are all still skills that can be used in every day cooking as well. And with that, let us waste no more time, and we'll get right into it.
"Today will be a simple lesson, familiarizing ourselves with your two main sources of heat for cooking when outdoors: the classic campfire," he gestured toward the empty space where there were divots in the ground for said campfires, "and a portable camp stove," he gestured toward those exact things to his other side. "For our purposes, we have two very nice ColemanTM Powerhouse Dual Fuel 2-Burner Stoves that we'll be working with becauseshameless product placement I have always found them to as incredibly dependable and superior in quality.
"We'll start with the campfires, and how to both safely and efficiently start one in the wild, and then we'll move onto the stove, which is much easier, but will be a little different to work with than your traditional kitchen stove. But, since this is a class about working in the field overall, we must first seek out some wood for our campfires. We will set the time at, let's say, five minutes, and when you hear the bell," at this point, he reached for a bell and rang it for demonstration, "you'll return to camp and we'll get started in earnest. Please do not get lost, although if we need to reroute this class to be one that focuses a bit more on search and rescue, then so be it."
That was...mostly...a joke.
"Alright, then. Let's begin."
Well. Fires had been a bit more of a thing around here, lately, so at least the fire department was relatively...warmed up.
He met the students on the edge of the preserve, listening carefully for their arrive, and, when he did hear someone coming up, greeted them with a simple, "Do me a favor and introduce yourself as you arrive. It will be better for me to know when we have everyone if you do."
But it was a thankfully small class, so once everyone had informed him to their presence, he nodded, and go started. "Welcome to Camp Cooking Essentials, a survey in various techniques and equipment to allow one to still manage to make excellent and fulfilling meals even when resources are scarce. For those of you who I've not had the pleasure to meet yet, my name is Ignis Scientia, and my former position as my team's chef required me to often cook in unexpected and inconvenient places, often in very tenuous circumstances, as well. However, even if one does not plan to spend a lot of time out-of-doors, these are all still skills that can be used in every day cooking as well. And with that, let us waste no more time, and we'll get right into it.
"Today will be a simple lesson, familiarizing ourselves with your two main sources of heat for cooking when outdoors: the classic campfire," he gestured toward the empty space where there were divots in the ground for said campfires, "and a portable camp stove," he gestured toward those exact things to his other side. "For our purposes, we have two very nice ColemanTM Powerhouse Dual Fuel 2-Burner Stoves that we'll be working with because
"We'll start with the campfires, and how to both safely and efficiently start one in the wild, and then we'll move onto the stove, which is much easier, but will be a little different to work with than your traditional kitchen stove. But, since this is a class about working in the field overall, we must first seek out some wood for our campfires. We will set the time at, let's say, five minutes, and when you hear the bell," at this point, he reached for a bell and rang it for demonstration, "you'll return to camp and we'll get started in earnest. Please do not get lost, although if we need to reroute this class to be one that focuses a bit more on search and rescue, then so be it."
That was...mostly...a joke.
"Alright, then. Let's begin."
Re: Arrive and Listen to the Lecture - CCE, 05/11.
"Well, then, Beta," he said, "considering that most people do need food to function in general, I believe we may be on the right path to meeting some of that goal."