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[tactlesstantei]

Who: Masumi Sera and OTA
Where: Kitchen
When: Imagination 4
What: Masumi’s struggling with her team’s monthly chore. Send help.
Warnings: N/A

Masumi has always put in the effort to do the chore assigned to Purple, but meal prep is proving to be a hurdle for her. While she’s not disastrously bad, and is trying to follow recipes, she’s also unsure and making mistakes due to her inexperience.

For example, she’s trying to make the honey seared chicken recipe, but has no idea how to tell when the chicken is cooked beyond ‘not pink’. She might need some help before she overcooks the meat.

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[magicurls]

Mami spends most of her time in the kitchen this month. This is her chore! She can handle it! She's a flurry of yellow and purple around the kitchen, managing several dishes at once.

She's in the process of gliding by when she smells Masumi's effort.

"Mm, the flavor's coming out! I think it's time to test?" she suggests.

[tactlesstantei]

You think so?

[Masumi turns from her efforts to face Mami, clearly uncertain of her efforts even with the encouragement. Cooking is not something she's skilled in, having had little chance to practice before now and now somewhat overwhelmed by the effort now that Purple team has been assigned to the task.]

I've never really done this much before, so...

[consider8]

Eight is ever a diligent worker and today is no exception. She is taking the work with intent and purpose, and while she has been taking the time to learn how to cook chicken and meat, she has started to get the hang of it.

She stops to look at Masumi, noting her hesitation more than the food mistakes. Her eyes lower to the work she is doing. "What troubles you?"

[tactlesstantei]

“Huh?” [Masumi had been so focused on watching her chicken cook that she’s actually a bit startled by Eight’s question. She recovers quickly though, and gives a somewhat awkward explanation for her uncertainty.]

“I haven’t had much chance to cook before. I lived in hotels before this, and they don’t have public kitchen access, so I just never got to practice until now.”

[It was an unfortunate side effect of living in hotels so much, and one that was making it harder for her now that she had to do kitchen work.]

[consider8]

[That gets a good-natured laugh out of Eight.] "Well, it's a good thing for you to want to better yourself."

[She looks over at what she is doing and raises a finger to her mouth.] "Though you are certainly being ambitious for your first attempt..."

[hisblueskies]

Alfredo had not quite given up on his time in the kitchen, though his skills were far from any master chef's; he'd only learn with more experience, right?

Staring at the oven, he asks, "Isn't there something we put in the chicken, to make sure it's cooked all the way through?"

Some sort of device... he'd been introduced to it at some point, he's sure of it, but he doesn't know where it is!

[schrodingersghost]

Danny liked to think of his own cooking skills as survival level. He picked up just enough to make his own dinner if needed. And also to fight off any food ghosts that the ectoplasm samples in the refigerator might have accidentally created.

...Fenton family dinners were sometimes very exciting.

Walking over, he catches sight of one of the other purples frowning over a recipe.

"Something wrong?"

[tactlesstantei]

[Looking up from the cooking chicken, Masumi blinks in surprise before responding, gesturing at her efforts as she speaks.]

"I'm not sure how to tell when this is ready. I know it shouldn't be pink, but that's about it."

[The chicken is actually just about ready, but she's not sure and and wary of ending up with it still partially uncooked. It's an understandable worry, but one that risks her ending up with overdone chicken if she doesn't do something.]

[schrodingersghost]

"Eh, as long as its white all the way through it should be fine."

That was about the extent of his chicken cooking knowledge.

[sunbloom]

Itsuki is... probably not much help. She's about as good as Masumi herself; that is, she's functional but not very good. Honestly, she's spending equal time watching others and trying for herself, and is just a little too proud to ask for help on her own. So far, at least. At the moment, she's peering over Masumi's shoulder, attempting to make sense of the dish herself.

"This is pretty close to the end, right? This seems right - it smells really good - I just don't know how you'd check before it starts burning." She grimaces. "I wonder if there's a timer in here somewhere."

[tactlesstantei]

“I’m not sure either. It looks cooked, I think, but...”

[Honestly a timer might have been a good thing to set earlier, but Masumi had been too focused on just not burning the food to remember that part. She stares at the pan again, before remembering that she does have another way to check beyond guessing.]

“...I could just cut a piece in half to check.” [That would be the easiest way to confirm it was cooked.]

[sunbloom]

"That would be easiest, yes," Itsuki begins, "but then you can't serve that. So that doesn't work forever, and if it isn't done, will it still cook the same?" She gets math, and she's pretty sure it turns into a geometry problem then. Not a helpful one, either.