Always Be Prepared.

[gaybatbanchou]

[Forget what you were PLANNING on doing today. Instead, you are transported to some random barn with fruit punch and stale cookies, a very sad display of forced mingling. However, the real reason you're here is because of your brand new MERIT BADGES. These are badges you've earned, in your own world or here, and are basically little patch medals

Comments

[forcedtoplay]

Charming.

[Sporting several badges: Bookkeeping, Indirect Murder, Flirting, and Watchmaking.]

[gaybatbanchou]

Watchmaking, huh? That's unusual.

[forcedtoplay]

A friend of mine taught me while I was living with him. It's actually pretty interesting.

[raises an eyebrow] Are you a Baker?

[gaybatbanchou]

I'd guess so, yeah.

And no, I'm not. But it's a useful skill to have, anyway.

[forcedtoplay]

He's not a conventional watchmaker, of course, but the basics are the same.

And it orobably is. I'm an awful cook, but I can still see the merit of cooking.

[gaybatbanchou]

Cooking is art, baking is science. The former takes a lot more practice.

[forcedtoplay]

How are they not the same basic principle?

[gaybatbanchou]

Because one involves chemistry and the other involves being competent around an open flame.

[forcedtoplay]

Chemistry? In baking or cooking?

[gaybatbanchou]

Baking. Like when bread rises.

I could talk about this for a while, you know.

[forcedtoplay]

I know. I'm curious.

[gaybatbanchou]

[Shrug~]

The reason bread rises is because the mixture generates carbon dioxide, which makes tiny bubbles inside the dough that expand over time. Live yeast makes the carbon dioxide as a by-product of metabolism, if you let the dough rise before baking. And if you don't, you end up with something inedible more often than not. Heat coagulates egg, baking soda reacts to acid... It's science.

[forcedtoplay]

Wow, I never even thought about it like that.

[you are impressive]

[gaybatbanchou]

Not everyone does.

[forcedtoplay]

You're a pretty smart guy.

[gaybatbanchou]

Only when I'm trying to impress cute girls.