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[whatsamada]

Sender: Ken Amada
To: Everyone
Subject: Help a poor boy cook

Good afternoon,

I hope I'm not bothering anyone but is there anyone who can help me cook? I know I would need to learn how to do it on my own eventually, but I don't know how.

[NEvermind that Shinjiro can cook but he sure knows that he isn't going to be bothering him 24/7 over this!]

Comments

Sender: Anya

[grandduchess_anya]

Here is a great tip, try to cook very simple recipes first. Something like fried eggs or porridge could be easy to do. That is how I started to cook when I first arrived here. As you progress, you can expand with more advance recipes later on.

[whatsamada]

Fried eggs sound simple enough. You just need to cook it in oil, right? As for porridge, I heard it is a lot harder than it looks because of how long it'll take.

[grandduchess_anya]

Yeah, porridge can be tricky to cook properly with the amount of time it takes to cook. But as long as you have the patience for it and keep an eye on the pot, it should be okay and it won’t taste like burnt oats.

[whatsamada]

Wait, you meant oatmeal?

I thought you meant rice porridge! I didn't know that you can slow cook oats, I just assume you can add water and put it in the microwave.

[grandduchess_anya]

Where I’m from, we don’t have a lot of access to rice so we have to make use of oats since it is usually cold in Russia.

And yes we didn’t have these microwaves in many Russian households. Um, what are microwaves by the way?

[whatsamada]

I guess the best way to describe it is an electric heater? It heats your food a lot quicker so you don't have to worry about time.

I'm sorry, I forgot that you came from another time period. Maybe I can show you how to use it one day? It's really easy!

Sender: Pauline Bonheur

[ribbonbon]

Is there anything at all you've cooked before? Just to kind of get an idea of where you are.

[whatsamada]

I can cook some scrambled eggs? And boiled one before.

Does that count?

[grandduchess_anya]

Oh that would be marvelous. It would make things a little easier for me to get food ready or reheat food whenever I like to.

[whatsamada]

Then where are you? Does your place have a kitchen?

Sender: Shealtiel

[lemoncandy]

Do you really need to learn? There are places where you can buy food already prepared for you.

( Sincerely, an angel who would probably accidentally slice his entire hand off trying to cut an avocado. Cooking seems hard. )

[grandduchess_anya]

I’m currently at my house at the moment. The good news is I have a kitchen in my treehouse which is a great thing. The bad news is my current ‘stove’ is the kind you need to use a lot of firewood and lit fire with. And I can’t leave it unattended while I do other tasks in the house either.

I haven’t found any luck in finding a proper stove in months since we got electricity running in the town.

[whatsamada]

I know but I would have to learn eventually, right? I can't keep relying take out.

And I have a feeling a certain person would tell me to stop too.

[.......just saying.]

[whatsamada]

Is there any other things you can use? It just can't the stove that you rely on cooking so much right?

If worse comes to worse, we can always try to use the one with the firewood.

[....and yet, he was starting to worry just a bit............]

[lemoncandy]

What's wrong with take out? Besides, convenience stores and grocery stores have premade food, too. That's healthier, or whatever, for humans. There's no reason you'd be required to learn. And you don't have to listen to anyone if you don't want to.

( What sort of advice is he giving to children?? )

[whatsamada]

It's not bad, I just know that after a while? It gets kind of old eating food from those stores. But, are you sure that is a good idea to say that?

He might be listening in.

[lemoncandy]

I mean, sure, but would you rather have food get kinda boring, or accidentally chop off your finger in a meat cutting accident?

Who is he, anyway? I'm not saying anything wrong. I'm definitely not scared of some nobody, either.

[whatsamada]

I guess you got a good point there. But I know that eating take out isn't really all that healthy when you don't know what kind of stuff people put in the food too.

I'm not saying you have to be scared. I just worry he might listen and say something.

[lemoncandy]

I guess humans are more fragile than I thought. Well, good luck? If you're learning to cook. I hope you don't chop a finger off.

( That is meant to be genuinely supportive, but he's terrible at it so it comes off kind of threatening, doesn't it. )

That's fine, too, though. Are you doing this behind his back or something?

[whatsamada]

[And then was a fairly long pause.]

....

I just want to learn how to do this by myself.

[lemoncandy]

Isn't there a place where humans upload videos of themselves with instructions for activities of all levels of difficulty? I think it's called something like... youchew.

Actually, though, I don't know if that exists in this place.

[ribbonbon]

Yeah, that totally counts! Since you already know how to do some basic things, I think you'll be able to pick up some stuff without too much trouble.

Is there anything specific you want to learn to cook or are you just looking for some easy stuff for now?

Sender: Zhongli

[gentryofhermitage]

[It's the small human boy again! Zhongli remembers him. Which is why, in elegant script, he replies.]

Are there any particular dishes you enjoy? I happen to know a fair amount about the cuisine of my own world, and perhaps I could assist in finding a recipe similar to one you are familiar with.

[whatsamada]

YouTube?

I'm not really sure but I guess I can try that if all else fails. But have you tried to do anything like that before?

[whatsamada]

Something easy for now. Just enough where I can do something on my own easily.

I don't want to keep relying on one of my teammates to help me cook all the time.