defrosting rates in a toaster oven

[blackjackrocket]

So thanks to the replies in my last post, I've decided that the kid is going to try to doctor up a frozen pizza with fish and sesame seeds

Comments

[andmydog]

If you want him to get pissed at his limitations, I would think that toasting a pizza and having it be soggy and disgusting would do it. Or, he could try to make both in on the same tray (next to each other, not putting the fish sticks on the pizza) and have the pizza crust catch fire before the fish sticks were defrosted. Because, seriously, if you're writing a kid making insta-food, I would think that making fish sticks and a pizza, separately, would be more likely than putting fish sticks on the pizza. I've known some hard-core stoners - Japanese hard-core stoners, ever - and they would never put the one on the other.

[blackjackrocket]

Oh, but these aren't fish *sticks*, this is frozen fish, like regular fish. And the kid's recently gotten obsessed with what he percieves to be "high class" things, so that's why he's trying to put fish on pizza, because now he thinks "fish on pizza" sounds like something that would be expensive.

[andmydog]

The smell alone should be adequate to make him pissed at his limitations, then. Gah.

[blackjackrocket]

Haha, I can imagine

[essayel]

Can your kid read? If so he could read the instructions and make an edible but disappointing meal. Alternatively he could misinterpret something in the instructions and make something truly horrible. Just cooking it for a couple of minutes too long makes pizza crust so leathery one can't bite it.

It depends what emotional state you want him to be in by the end of the meal.

[blackjackrocket]

Oh he *can* read (and quite well for his age), but he probably *won't* in this case. He knows how to heat up a frozen pizza, so he thinks he won't mess anything up.

[af_607105]

Turn the oven all the way up. Half frozen, half burnt pizza, here we come.

[blackjackrocket]

Maybe...usually he would know how to make a frozen pizza, but he might try to overcompensate for the fish. He's extremely intelligent...but he's not very bright (IE, he's a scientific genius, but as we know in canon, he makes a *bunch* of stupid mistakes that anyone but him could have seen coming).