March 15th | Early evening | Video

[realimperfect]

 
[ Death City, have a very defeated looking Re-l Mayer standing over a pot of charred, smoking... something.. It would seem that a little cooking adventure had taken place, and Re-l had failed miserably. Her windows are open but there is still some lingering smoke as she tries to scrape the dead meal off of the bottom of the pan, grimacing at what a wreck all of this was. 

Well, let's just say her cooking isn't the best. Finally she puts the pan down and turns to address the network, looking rather disgusted with herself. ] 

I've tried time and time again to cook a dinner that wasn't noodles before my shifts, and every time it ends up like this... 

[ Oh, that's quite an ugly frown. ] 

Would anyone be willing to, I don't know, teach me something when it comes to cooking? Is there some special skill or talent that makes people more or less able to cook? 

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[computations]

As long as you can read, measure, count, and calculate time limits, it hardly requires any skills or special abilities. Cooking is a simple science.

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[realimperfect]

I can do all of those. It doesn't seem to change much.
[ And it's really starting to piss her off, honestly. ]

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[computations]

I fail to see what the issue happens to be then.

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[realimperfect]

Then we share the same issue it seems.

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[computations]

There is no issue. It is physically impossible unless there is something incorrect.

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[realimperfect]

You do realize that cooking is not quite the same as computations and scientific experiments, don't you?

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[computations]

Cooking is science. Even though you can eat the product, it is the result of multiple different objects reacting to each other through chemical, heat, and other sources of energy being applied to it.

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[realimperfect]

Cooking isn't science. [ Oops, that was an eye roll, as she turns back to cleaning the pot she's properly destroyed. ]

Science is medicine and the creation or destruction of life, things like that. Spices are not chemicals, or anything of the sort.

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[computations]

That is a very narrow minded view of science. And undoubtedly incorrect. Cooking is definitely a very narrow subset of science.

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[realimperfect]

People who think they are inevitably correct about everything are typically wrong about most things. [ Calmly ignoring the fact that she's a bit of a know-it-all of course. ]

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[computations]

Perhaps. But reactions among various chemical agents is my realm of expertise so the chances of me being incorrect here are slim to null.

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[realimperfect]

This place seems to have a penchant for cocky science types. It's a wonder Daedalus hasn't shown up yet.