itscurtains | week 2

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week 2

WEEK 2
[From the day you arrived on the planet, and blinking, stepped into the sun. There's more to see than can ever be seen, and more to do than can ever be done. Yet, still, the whole thing seems...monotonous. Surely there must be some excitement, some showmanship, some sort of plot twist that could keep this show moving onward?

Welcome to week 2, gents.]

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Anything that needs heat, I guess. The only thing I really know how to make in it is the hot pockets.

[HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS HOT POCKETS]

The "hot pockets"? What sort of food is that?

[CALIENTE POCKETS]

They are like little cheesy sandwiches - here, I can show you.

[He gets the hot pockets out of the freezer.

HOT POCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS]

You put them in the microwave, and it heats them up and melts the cheese. [or something probably]

But they are frozen...this micro-wave can properly thaw them?

[He has to see this shit]

Apparently. It doesn't take very long, either.

[let's do this let's fucking do this

he unpackages one, puts it on a plate, and puts it in the microwave]

These buttons with the numbers are used to tell it how long to cook for. It sounds an alarm when it is finished, like a kettle - I think you do not even need to watch it. [That's the logical conclusion, but he's been keeping an eye on the microwave when he's using it anyway, on the offchance it catches fire or something]

[Yeah Raoul wants to watch it as well.]

And how long do we heat it for?

Only - [he says however long you heat a hot pocket for, like a minute or two? I'm not googling that we all know it's not that long. Anyway, Valjean types in the time and starts the microwave.]

It spins it around, too - to cook more evenly, no doubt.

Edited 2016-10-19 13:51 (UTC)

[Yeah I think it's like two minutes or so depending on the type.

Raoul kneels down to watch it, face perhaps a little too close, intrigued by the dim light and the spinning.]

Interesting...no doubt it needs to spin, in order to make up for its lack of power compared to an oven or a stove.

[Someone should show these two popcorn.]

Quite. The outside barely even heats.

[Which he'll demonstrate by putting his hand on top of it. It's warm, certainly, but much less so than it must be inside, to cook the frozen hot pocket.

When the timer goes off, he take it out and offers the plate to Raoul.]

And that is all! As quickly as that!

[Raoul touches the microwave too - incredible! Not even terribly hot! And when the food is done, he takes the plate, examining the hot pocket with intrigue.]

Incredible...and you said it's like a sandwich, yes?

[So he can pick it up and eat it right he doesn't need a knife and fork]

Yes, there's meat and cheese inside. Though it is quite hot.

[Don't burn your mouth on the burning cheese liquid, Raoul, don't make his mistakes]

Hotter than the outside? [He touches the hot pocket carefully, pulling his hand back.]

Ah - perhaps...it needs some time to cool off. Or, perhaps, holes for the heat to vent through?

[People did that with pies right? Where's a fork, he's going to poke holes in this.]

One or the other, surely.

[fork fork let's find a fork here's a fork

stab stab stab]

[Let's stab the hot pocket it's the best thing to stab in this situation also whoa the cheese is leaking out let's not touch that.]

I must say, these foods are very unusual. You can freeze and reheat them without any additional cooking, or the additives come dried in packets...

[better than stabbing valjean]

Dried packets? [TEACH HIM TO MAKE KRAFT MAC AND CHEESE BEFORE HE DIES]

[VALJEAN IS NOT DEAD he's still alive making hot pockets I believe this within the depths of my soul]

Yes, it was incredibly unusual! There was a box from which one could make "macaroni and cheese", and the cheese part came from a dry, orange powder rehydrated with milk and butter once the macaroni was cooked. It was not a cheese I would want served at home, but I do wonder if there is a way to make it more palatable...

How on earth did they dehydrate the cheese?

[Rhetorical question; he knows you won't know either.]

Perhaps if you added some ordinary cheese. There's several different kinds in the icebox.

I am not sure.

[l o l]

That could work, but I wonder which type would be best. Probably something closest in shade to the orange...

[Which, eeeugh, no thank you, that doesn't sound good.]

Did they not name the type of cheese? That's odd...but that seems sensible.

[well this is gonna be vile]

I can check, if there are still boxes...

[He goes to look in the cupboard, and yep, there it is. Macaroni and Cheese. He looks at the ingredients.]

...Ah...er...hm. Monsieur Valjean, I do believe...that this may not be the best thing to eat. Half of the things on this ingredients list I do not think I can pronounce.

Oh? May I see it?

[He'll look at the ingredients list, and...hm. Yeah. Wow.]

How does all of this go into noodles and cheese?

I don't know - it's ludicrous! It would be much easier to make it from actual noodles and actual cheese!

[Not really buddy...it might be healthier though?]

I would think so - there are boxes of dry noodles in the pantry, and we have plenty of cheese. [He flips the box over.] This seems as if it may be faster to make, but is it worth it?

Probably not. I was fine eating it once, but what if one of the ladies were to get sick from it?

And us with no medicine here. I don't believe Dr. Harris is a medical doctor.

[Perhaps the Balladeer would give them aid, but he's not sure they can trust that much will come.]

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