dorm of stairs and a significant vacancy

[jinian]

(Note: there are no actual stairs.)

In only one aspect, my dorm life is starting to remind me strongly of William Sleator's creepy YA novel House of Stairs. We have motion-controlled lights, and we are being classically conditioned

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[marzipan_pig]

I think I am going to die laughing from the HOUSE OF STAIRS reference.

Also that is a good point about how crazy-wasteful our gigantic ovens are. OK turkeys but how often do people really make turkeys, and even cookies could be more carefully managed in a smaller oven.

CHASTITY BELT COOKIE TENSION.

[jinian]

Jane says she tried to make a normal batch of cookies in a Japanese oven once. She was baking them for three hours, because only four cookies would fit at a time.

[hattifattener]

I'm not seeing the problem here. You bake a couple batches before starting to eat, so that you can have a proper hedonistic start, and then the cookies come out of the oven about as fast as you eat them so that they are always tasty and hot.

I guess no oven means no home-baked bread, roasts, casseroles, etc as well. Maybe you could direct your co-workers' attention to one of the Miyazaki films set in Europe-ish, like Kiki's. (Because the rest of the film is also representative of normal life of course.)

(Are ovens really especially inefficient? It seems like they'd be more efficient than a range for lots of things. Maybe less efficient than a slowcooker/crockpot/ricecooker style thing.)

[jinian]

"You bake a couple of batches" takes six hours, is the problem with that plan. Yes, the lack of biscuits is also wearing on me, though pancakes are an acceptable substitute in some cases.

Kiki is in a bakery; I think even here bakeries have ovens. :)

The idea is that heating all that air is inefficient compard to applying hotness to the food more directly, I believe. And I did have to admit that it takes enough power that the appliance has a different kind of plug than most things.

[elynne]

I giggled quite a bit during this post. Especially the bit about "lights go out, EVERYBODY WAVE YOUR ARMS IN THE AIR LIKE YOU JUST DON'T CARE (AND WOULD LIKE THE LIGHTS BACK ON NOW PLS)"