Major Cuisine Magic Breakthrough!
Well, okay, I have no idea if it actually is because I never studied Sedimentary Magic while I was there. But I've been fiddling with it myself, and discovered something very important which may or may not be an established technique.
As you are all no doubt aware, Sedimentary Magic deals with food which is either layered or constructed of the remnants of prior food (sandwiches, shephard's pie, leftovers in general). Microwave ovens are a major tool. I was experimenting with leftover Chinese delivery (the MSG allows me to use my Metamorphic Magic senses to monitor the state of the food), and kept running into a problem: I'd dump the rice and food on a plate, reheat it, and the result would be individual grains of dry and unpleasant rice and Chinese food. There would be none of the marvelous cohesion that makes chopsticks practical.
However, I have discovered the key. I had a container of rice I hadn't even opened yet. I tried popping the whole thing in the microwave without opening it, and 2 minutes and 45 seconds later I had hot rice indistinguishable from the freshly delivered stuff. In fact, it was slightly stickier than when delivered!
I shall conduct further experiments to determine whether it works if, say, you ate half the rice the day the food was delivered, then closed the container. Hmm, on second thought, I'll wait to conduct those experiments after I answer this more immediately pressing question: how do I get the broccoli rub to stop screaming and put down the knife?
As you are all no doubt aware, Sedimentary Magic deals with food which is either layered or constructed of the remnants of prior food (sandwiches, shephard's pie, leftovers in general). Microwave ovens are a major tool. I was experimenting with leftover Chinese delivery (the MSG allows me to use my Metamorphic Magic senses to monitor the state of the food), and kept running into a problem: I'd dump the rice and food on a plate, reheat it, and the result would be individual grains of dry and unpleasant rice and Chinese food. There would be none of the marvelous cohesion that makes chopsticks practical.
However, I have discovered the key. I had a container of rice I hadn't even opened yet. I tried popping the whole thing in the microwave without opening it, and 2 minutes and 45 seconds later I had hot rice indistinguishable from the freshly delivered stuff. In fact, it was slightly stickier than when delivered!
I shall conduct further experiments to determine whether it works if, say, you ate half the rice the day the food was delivered, then closed the container. Hmm, on second thought, I'll wait to conduct those experiments after I answer this more immediately pressing question: how do I get the broccoli rub to stop screaming and put down the knife?