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John Silver ([personal profile] an_honest_man) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2013-08-14 03:10 pm

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 John Silver is a man who knows his way around a kitchen.  Even one that's gleaming with more steel than the entire British Navy's armory.  And this kitchen is a sea cook's dream.  The pantries are stocked to the ceiling, and there's cold storage with fresh meat and eggs and even cheese.

First off, he wants a joint.  Something that isn't pig or bird.  A proper beef joint, like a fine gentleman would have for his Sunday dinner.  And he's going to make it himself.  There's something disturbing about having rats handle his food.  They gave up trying to shoo him out of the kitchen when he waved his crutch at them, nearly taking one's head off.

'Go on!  Bleedin' vermin.  I run a fine establishment, and there are no rats in the larder!'  Well, at least not for long, anyway.  'Get out, or I'll find a cat to turn loose in here, and then you'll see what for!'

He'll have this place up to snuff in no time, given half a chance.

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[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-08-14 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sunshine glances over, at the sound of hesitation. Oh! Right.

"I've always wondered about why so much of Milliways gravitates towards late 20th, early 21st century tech," she says, approaching the oven. "What are you making?"
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[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-08-15 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Hold up for a sec," she says, heading over to a shelf of recipe books. Handy, those. "I don't eat meat, myself, or else I could tell you how hot to set it."

"Ovens like this, you just tell it how hot you want it to be, to cook what you're wanting to cook, and it'll stay at that temperature until you turn it off," Rae explains, flipping through one of the likelier-looking cookbooks.
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[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-08-15 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
"There should be a suggested temperature and time for a roast, in the recipe book," Rae says, following. "To set the oven, you just turn the knob to the right temperature, and it'll heat up. Then you set the oven timer, and it'll ring when it's done."
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[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-08-15 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Sunshine chuckles, going to prepare the pot for the water that will soon be boiling.

"There are some in my world who'd tell you eating meat is unhealthy, too," she grins, measuring out the jasmine green tea. "But that's not why I don't eat it. Fact is, I can't eat it."
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[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-08-15 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep," she says, watching the steam beginning to rise from the kettle. "I can't even react to it as though it was food."

Only like it was a hacked-up piece of some dead thing.
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[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-08-15 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Careful," Rae smiles at him over her shoulder. "I'm a professional baker - I'm a tough judge of cakes."

Bewaaaaaare. ^_^

"How do you take your tea?"