Domes have smoke detectors, right?

[11calls]

WHO: Alex Reagan and Richard Strand
WHERE: Personal dome 300
WHEN: Today.
WHAT: Richard is trying to teach Alex to do some simple cooking. I'm sure it will go well.
WARNINGS: Nothing this is a cute damn thread because the world is a shitshow.


Strictly speaking, Alex Reagan can't even bake. The cookies that she makes around holidays and such are technically no bake ones, and whenever she tries to make any other kind they end up a disaster of the first order: burnt or raw, salt instead of sugar once at Nic's house, definitely without enough flour one time she picked up powder sugar for almond meal when she was trying to be gluten free. Of course, her attempts at actually cooking were something that were somehow even more laughable.

The biggest lie that Alex Reagan told on her show (other than that whole bit at the end, of course) was that with Hello Fresh she had managed to whip up gourmet meals. What she'd actually whipped up instead was gourmet ashes and a broken smoke detector. Which was fine! Living in a city had advantages, and the fact that you could get anything delivered to you was one of them. And there was also things like drive thrus, ez mac and frozen chicken nuggets.

But now she was trying to learn to look something that Richard said was easy, but then again it's Richard who had once been asked to be on Podcast Chopped, and Alex wasn't even allowed an EZBake oven as a kid. And now here she was trying to cook eggs. With a voice that had a bit of dubiousness in it, Alex can't help but to ask: "am I doing this right?"

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[nobasisinfact]

"I never said you had." He'll keep drinking his scotch though.

[11calls]

Alex just laughs. "You didn't have to say anything, love. I know the look on your face."

[nobasisinfact]

"Do you?" More scotch drinking as he just watches. "Your egg is about to burn."

[11calls]

"What?" Alex just instantly turns back to the stove and flips it out onto the plate without adding the toppings in her haste to make one thing that doesn't burn while cooking. While the egg survives, Alex does end up with a good chunk of it hitting the base of her thumb and she lets out a little hiss of pain.

[nobasisinfact]

"Run it under cold water." He's not going to become aggitated or worried. It's not like it's a scald."

[11calls]

"I do know that you know." Alex isn't quite cross, but she is slightly annoyed with the fact that the thing she'd burnt is herself, and she runs it under cold water before she remembers. "Damn it, I forgot to add the stuff."

[nobasisinfact]

"It's fine." He's honestly just content with the fact that they didn't need to use the fire extinguisher.

[11calls]

"See." She says quickly, gesturing with her burnt hand. "Definitely hopeless in the kitchen."

[nobasisinfact]

"You're the one who suddenly wanted to learn." It's not accusatory, just a fact.

[11calls]

"Yeah, I know but..." She'd thought that it would be different this time really. But she's had enough of running the cold water over her burn and returns to her eggs. "I bet I could just add the ham and cheese on top and throw it in the microwave to melt."

[nobasisinfact]

"Which will make the egg rubbery."

[11calls]

Alex frowns at that. And then she looks at him expectantly. "So we just eat the egg plain? Do people do that?" Alex is more of a pancake woman honestly, and when she does eat eggs they are most assuredly covered in cheese.

[nobasisinfact]

"Salt and pepper." He offers the idea evenly. People eat without added things. There's more than one way to eat an egg.

[11calls]

Yeah, her frown deepens and Alex just reaches for the salt and the pepper grinder, and adds a generous amount of each. Then she picks up the eggs and just pokes them experimentally with a fork.

[nobasisinfact]

"They're not going to move away on you."

[11calls]

She still doesn't eat them. But she does cut the egg with a fork before offering it to him. "You're the master. You should have the first bite."

[nobasisinfact]

"The chef always tastes their creation first." He's not taking that first bite

[11calls]

"I'm hardly a chef, Richard." Which honestly doesn't even really need to be said considering well... everything.

But her frown does turn onto her creation, and she just adds:

"We should have made pancakes. I'm sure it's harder to mess up pancakes." And she likes them better. That goes without saying.

[nobasisinfact]

"You're stalling, and you chose to make eggs."

[11calls]

“I chose to make eggs because you like eggs!” But yes she’s stalling and she doesn’t protest that.

[nobasisinfact]

"You already knew they were for you." He gestures to the cheese and ham. "Now, eat."

[11calls]

"I was trying to be romantic." Alex is just going to scowl at him for a moment. "Let my first thing I cooked be something we shared."

[nobasisinfact]

"Then I'll take a bite after yours." He felt a real sense of forboding after saying that.

[11calls]

Alex just sighed for a moment, and then she took a bite, chewing on it. It wasn't that bad actually. If you like eggs. Alex doesn't like eggs.

[nobasisinfact]

"And?"