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]

Watching Alex cook was a wonder - or, an exercise in wondering just how badly you were going to need the fire extinguisher. For quite some time now Richard had banned her from the kitchen for anything other than coffee and sandwiches (things you didn't have to bake and an idiot would screw up). Now, however, she'd wanted to learn. He guessed it was because of all the things going on of late. So he'd obliged.

"If you like shell in your omelets." Reaching over he handed her a spoon. "You'll have to scrape them out."

[11calls]

Alex just frowns down at the offending shell that is sitting in the whites of her eggs, and then she takes the spoon from him without saying anything for a second. While she's trying to fish the little white bits out from the viscous clear stuff that keeps attempting to draw them back off the spoon, she can't help but ask: "isn't there supposed to be an easier way to do this than with a spoon? Like with the shell or something? I'm pretty sure I saw it on a Buzzfeed life hack video once."

Like most people who happen to have chronic and terrible insomnia, Alex is actually well versed in a lot of Buzzfeed videos. Sometimes you just need something mindless so you don't spend all night tossing and turning and worrying of course about demons.

[nobasisinfact]

"Use the spoon." Richard isn't going to let Alex use those stupid Buzzfeed things when there's a perfectly good spoon to work with. Besides, knowing her she'd just get more shell rather than getting the bit that's in there back out.

[11calls]

Frowning a bit harder at the eggs in the bowl, Alex just tries again. But as always, Richard has his way of doing things, and Alex has her own. Setting the spoon down, she opens the drawer and takes out a fork instead. Using the tongs of it to let the whites mostly drip off of it, she then goes in with the spoon and collects the bit of shell with a sound of triumph.

[nobasisinfact]

His brows raise as he watches her attack the eggs, then he can't help the smirk at the triumphant chirp. He figured she would get it out. It was just a matter of how long it would take for her to do so. "It seems we won't be having crunchy eggs."

[11calls]

"I wouldn't say that yet, Richard." Is Alex using an abundance of caution there? Yes, yes she is because she knows herself and she knows that she's definitely used 'crunchy' as a synonym for 'burnt' before when describing something that she probably shouldn't have eaten.

She did it anyway of course.

"Next the cream right?"

[nobasisinfact]

"I'd beat the eggs before that." He gestures to the fork. Technically, she doesn't have to beat them at this moment, but Richard tends to do so to make sure they're beaten good.

[11calls]

“Okay. Beating the eggs. I can do that.” The words are probably more for Alex’s own sake than for his, but they’re there nonetheless. She picks up the fork once more and starts beating them harshly, tilting the bowl a little to make sure she’s getting all of them.

[nobasisinfact]

Reaching behind her he tilts the bowl slightly to keep the contents from spilling out. "A bit less vigor." There's a note of amusement in his voice.

[11calls]

Alex just grins at him over her shoulder, her eyes sparkling as she bumps him with a hip. “That’s not normally a problem.”

[nobasisinfact]

He's going to ignore her snarky comment about their sex life. "The eggs are supposed to stay in the bowl, not on the counter."

[11calls]

It wasn't about their sex life. Or at least only their sex life anyway.Alex tends to be vigorous about most things in her life. It's part of her charm. "In the bowl, not the counter," Alex repeats with a quick grin. "Now the cream?"

[nobasisinfact]

"Yes." He lets go of her hands and stands back.

[11calls]

He may step back, but Alex is just going to lean back into him as she carefully adds the measured cream into the bowl and starts whisking much more carefully. "Should I switch to the whisk now? I thought you needed one for eggs."

[nobasisinfact]

"You can use one if you want." It's not something he worries about. Sometimes you just don't want to wash all those dishes.

[11calls]

"You're the cook." So, she just going to keep carefully using the fork, because well, she trusts him and probably would make a mess with the whisk anyway.

[nobasisinfact]

Richard simply sits back and watches. "When it's mixed well enough, put some butter in the pan and put it on low."

[11calls]

"On low?" Alex just frowns as she sets the bowl down on the counter and puts the pan on the burner and adds a large amount of butter. "Isn't it going to take forever?"

[nobasisinfact]

"You're not going to keep it on low."

[11calls]

Alex just raises a brow at him, "then why am I staring it on low?"

[nobasisinfact]

"So you don't burn yourself on the butter splash."

[11calls]

"Isn't it still going to be splashing later on though?" Alex just pokes at the very slowly melting butter in the pan.

[nobasisinfact]

"Not if you do it right."

[11calls]

Alex stops poking at the butter and shifts so that she's looking at him over her shoulder, and there's a question in her eye as to what doing things right means.

[nobasisinfact]

Richard reaches over and turns the heat of slightly.