and still no fried ice cream, what a tragedy

[motherfucking_ghost]

WHO: Cosima, Church, ALL Y'ALL
WHAT: Frying food. Possibly frying things that aren't food. A slow descent into crazy.
WHEN: During Phase One
WHERE: Gallows kitchens, primarily
NOTES: They made an announcement, this is just during the whole period of time. We'll have toplevels for each of them, and unless specified, there's going to be threadhopping since they're in the same place at the same time.

It had started with a meeting of active minds, more active now than before. And then a gathering of supplies and a taking over of the kitchen between meals. They tried not to be in the way when there was cooking for meals, because otherwise that would be very rude, and they didn't need a whole lot of space to set up what they needed, a makeshift deep fat fryer.

But, of course, because of the Plot, this isn't just gonna be happy fun Rifter food times, so I hope you're not super put off by the sight of two obsessive and restless Rifters making a mess of things and not sleeping and practically forcing fried mostly veggies on everyone.

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Early week

[provenforce]

Rey wasn't really going to waste any time in checking out the kitchen experiments. She'd been plowing through her list of things that she needed to fix, but taking a break for food was definitely not unheard of. So she and Padawan appear in the kitchens, and while she definitely wants food when she sees Cosima working on trying to make a fry basket she beelines for the woman, her hand already on her work belt, which she's still wearing.

"Need a hand?"

[youwonscience]

Cosima looks up with a small smile; she has an array of supplies, both foodstuffs and implements used for putting them into and pulling them out of the oil. "Hey -- yeah, if you've got the time, you might actually be just the person I need. Where I'm from, we usually deep fat fry using a sort of metal basket, but I haven't figured out the best substitute here. Oh -- first, try this."

She retrieves a warm but not burning hot plate of cheese ... well, they're meant to be cheese sticks, they're more reminiscent of cheese-filled hushpuppies in shape.

[provenforce]

Rey looks over what Cosima has already nodding a little as her mind sets to working out a problem that is probably a relatively easy fix.

"Should be able to rig something up--" she begins, though when she sees the food she derails. They don't look particularly appetizing, but then she's eaten veg-meat, so she isn't picky. Picking one up she looks at it curiously before popping it in her mouth. As she chews, her eyes get big, one hand coming up to cover her mouth as she talks around the cheesy fried delciousness in her mouth.

"This is the best thing I've ever tasted."

[youwonscience]

Cosima beams, frankly and honestly pleased. "Awesome. I'm still trying to refine it a bit - I'd like the cheese to be stingier after it melts, it's really good that way, but I think we're getting the basic idea across at least. And maybe we can figure out an approximation of the tomato sauce we dip it in at home, that'd be a good addition too."

[provenforce]

"I'd never had cheese before coming to Thedas. It's... something I truly regret missing out on." Though she knows that cheese products exist in her home galaxy, they weren't required in a scavenger diet. So typically not even milk was available.

"So what do you need for this basket project?"

[youwonscience]

"Well, I'm not an engineer, but I think the basic requirements are the ability to stand high heat without warping. And you want a basket with big enough holes to fully drain the oil, but not so big the food escapes. Maybe..." She holds up her thumb and forefinger about half an inch apart. "...that close? Something similar."

She thinks, then adds, "At home, they're usually sort of rectangular, but I think that's because the container for the oil is too, and one fits inside the other. Here it probably doesn't matter as long as you have a handle long enough to safely pull it out of the oil without getting burned."

[provenforce]

Rey hums thoughtfully, looking over what Cosima has assembled thus far, picking up a few things and turning them over before putting them back down.

"Have you considered using a piece of steel chainmail? If we could hook a piece up to a frame, it would probably do the trick." Short of hand constructing an entire wire basket by hand, that seemed like a simpler route.

[youwonscience]

"Oh, that's a good idea if we could get it on some kind of frame. The holes are a little smaller, but I don't think so much so it should be a problem. We'd have to clean it really well, of course, and make sure it's perfectly dry after we did, but that's way easier than building something from scratch."

She reaches for her notes, to jot down the suggestion and a few related considerations. "Mail's kind of heavy, so whatever we used would have to be sturdy."

[provenforce]

"There might be some mail that has a looser knit, that would be lighter... But I might have something in my room that could work as a frame. I tend to collect junk that comes in, to use for projects." She gets a distant look as she mentally goes through her catalogue of items she's accrued, before nodding.

"I definitely have something that'll work."