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[VIDEO] Cooking With Grumpy: The Belated Early Valentines Special!
Who: Satori and YOU.
When: (Backdated to) February 12th.
Where: Chireiden, the usual kitchen.
What: Satorin dutifully prepares chocolates in her typical fashion: snarkily.
WARNINGS: Excessive snark, eyeball monsters and risk of diabetes.
The scene opens, as in similar cooking-related streams by Satori, in the kitchens of Chireiden. It seems Satori's bedecked herself out in a red apron emblazoned with large red stereotypical hearts - all of which have a galaxy of eyes staring ominously out of the centre of them, staring at the unlucky viewers and eachother.
There's a Satori action figure posed nearby. It's holding an egg aloft, as if holding it out like a sacrifice to its larger and more dour likeness. Satori takes the egg into her hands
"It's that time of year, friends, beloved and...less loved of the world. The day, apparently, where 'love' is valued and celebrated and those who aren't as lucky in love are chastised by others for their lack of social interaction. Thankfully, I've avoided such a grisly fate of being the 'odd one out' or 'third wheel', so I'm in the particularly peculiar mood to spread cheer the only way I know how..."
Deadpan as ever, Satori slides over an empty bowl. Followed by a bowl filled with many, many eggs, a stick of butter, a container full of sugar, a bunch of Maraschino Cherries with stems attached, a large block or two of chocolate and some miscellaneous baking supplies, including syrup and a red and viscous liquid.
"...By making a heart-pounding nightmare of a valentine's treat that will leave you sleeplessly in love with your partner - and showing the beloved and lovesick of Genessia how to make something beautiful without an exhausting amount of work."
She places one of the cherries infront of the camera and narrates... "These are what's commonly called the Maraschino Cherry, a type of dried and sweetened cherry. I'm sure some of you are familiar with this sickeningly sweet ingredient in baking and bartending. For the first part of this recipe, you must be patient. I know it's difficult for some..."
For a moment, Satori glares off-camera into the middle distance somewhere towards the door...
"...but thankfully, I've prepared some of this next step in advance." And that's when she moves the red liquid into view... "This contains some extract from the cherries, created after soaking them and drying them overnight. The butter, syrup and sugar will be used to make part of the filling of the first recipe. You'll also need something called invertase, I've heard, if you truly would like a delectable centre for these chocolate cherries."
Satori carefully mixes the aforementioned ingredients to a mixing bowl, adding in the cherry-liquid and the invertase. After mixing for several minutes, Satori takes a ball of the mix and places one of the cherries in its centre, folding it around the cherry until it curves and covers everything except the stem. "Once the mixture's completed, wrap each cherry in it until all of them are covered. Normally, this process should take around a half-hour in a cool place - perhaps a refrigerator - for the filling to set. Once again, patience is key. If you want your chocolates right away, shame on you, and perhaps you should've chosen something that doesn't require as much forethought."
Her third eye stares towards the camera with its usually unreadable mono-ocular menace as Satori focuses on her work. She quickly brings the blocks of chocolate to the stove and begins heating them turning up the heat fairly high for some time, then gradually allowing it to cool down into a more worakable consistency.
Suddenly, she pulls out a tray of identically-wrapped cherries and slides the existing tray onto a little cart dragged by what appears to be a very small horse. The wonders never cease.
"...Now that the cherries I've wrapped are headed to cold storage, it's merely a matter of dipping these candied, wrapped cherries into the chocolate mixture. Heat the chocolate until it melts. If you're using a thermometer, that's somewhere around 46 Celsius and letting it cool until it reaches 32. I believe I'm skilled enough to eyeball it on my own. And if you don't wish your candies to spill as easily as your fragile emotions while making this the first time for someone you're head-over-heels for, I suggest you double-dip each one so that the chocolate is equally strong and holds in the cherry centre without losing any of it."
She does so with a surprising amount of calm, as if the mind-reader is reaching some bizarre level of zen in dipping each cherry in the mixture twice by the stem, then rolling each covered cherry through the chocolate mix before putting them back on the tray.
"Ideally, straining your clearly vast reserves of patience, your cherries will have to wait for a couple days to a week at room temperature as the chocolate hardens and the filling softens inside." Now with fully chocolate-covered cherries, Satori adds... "This concludes the first part of our Valentine-themed segment. As for the second, we'll have to make use of a few different ingredients..."
...With that, Satori points to the bowl of eggs and some of the remaining baking supplies, including a small sack of flour, some baking soda and a jug of milk. There also appears to be some hot coffee in a thermos nearby. She deftly cracks the eggs and adds together the butter and sugar in one bowl, then pours a mixture of chocolate and coffee into another. She pulls out two cake-pans for later use.
"Each of these bowls must be mixed individually until the batter is relatively light and the chocolate-coffee mixture is smoother and even." She tips one bowl into the other and mixes that further, still in a state of intense concentration. Her third eye has other plans, glancing around and focusing in. She taps the mixing spoon on the edge of the bowl to get some of the excess batter off, but as she holds it aloft, Koishi snatches it out of her hands. "...And be sure to have an extra spoon on hand." She retrieves a second, clean mixing spoon and pours the mixture into the two baking pans, sliding them into the oven to bake.
"...And once that's mixed properly and still relatively light, separate the mixture into two pans. Since it's a layered cake, we'll need to assemble it gradually, lest it turn into a horribly uneven chocolatey mess. Each of the cake-layers should be baked for around a half-hour to fourty-five minutes. Unfortunately, I prepared the cake in advance to show you the finished product." She reaches below and pulls out a lavish chocolate cake with a little more than a third of it missing and cut out unevenly. "...Koishi got to it first. The general idea would be to cut each layer in evenly in half and layer them atop one-another and coat each layer of the cake in whatever garnish you'd like - vanilla or chocolate frosting and such would work well. In the end, it should look something like that so long as nobody vandalizes it."
With that, Satori turns back to face the camera and addresses the audience once more... "I understand that this might be a litle condensed for my so-called bi-monthly cooking segments, but I've been so busy preparing some of these in the spirit of the season. As much as I'm seen as a quiet and socially displeasing cantankerous mind-reader, consider this my Valentine's gift to you all - a rare moment of ill-preparedness and a labour of love for those who deserve it. And, in a way, a tribute to those who've I've lost and found over my years in Genessia. If you're one of those people, you know who you are. This heart-pounding sardonic message is for you. And may those you love stay true and honest or else fear your ire."
And with that, the feed concludes as Satori can be vaguely heard whispering to her pets as she moves to the camera to switch it off...
"Oh, don't give me that look. Be glad I let you know so early. Now, hurry on and get to work. Don't keep them waiting."
When: (Backdated to) February 12th.
Where: Chireiden, the usual kitchen.
What: Satorin dutifully prepares chocolates in her typical fashion: snarkily.
WARNINGS: Excessive snark, eyeball monsters and risk of diabetes.
The scene opens, as in similar cooking-related streams by Satori, in the kitchens of Chireiden. It seems Satori's bedecked herself out in a red apron emblazoned with large red stereotypical hearts - all of which have a galaxy of eyes staring ominously out of the centre of them, staring at the unlucky viewers and eachother.
There's a Satori action figure posed nearby. It's holding an egg aloft, as if holding it out like a sacrifice to its larger and more dour likeness. Satori takes the egg into her hands
"It's that time of year, friends, beloved and...less loved of the world. The day, apparently, where 'love' is valued and celebrated and those who aren't as lucky in love are chastised by others for their lack of social interaction. Thankfully, I've avoided such a grisly fate of being the 'odd one out' or 'third wheel', so I'm in the particularly peculiar mood to spread cheer the only way I know how..."
Deadpan as ever, Satori slides over an empty bowl. Followed by a bowl filled with many, many eggs, a stick of butter, a container full of sugar, a bunch of Maraschino Cherries with stems attached, a large block or two of chocolate and some miscellaneous baking supplies, including syrup and a red and viscous liquid.
"...By making a heart-pounding nightmare of a valentine's treat that will leave you sleeplessly in love with your partner - and showing the beloved and lovesick of Genessia how to make something beautiful without an exhausting amount of work."
She places one of the cherries infront of the camera and narrates... "These are what's commonly called the Maraschino Cherry, a type of dried and sweetened cherry. I'm sure some of you are familiar with this sickeningly sweet ingredient in baking and bartending. For the first part of this recipe, you must be patient. I know it's difficult for some..."
For a moment, Satori glares off-camera into the middle distance somewhere towards the door...
"...but thankfully, I've prepared some of this next step in advance." And that's when she moves the red liquid into view... "This contains some extract from the cherries, created after soaking them and drying them overnight. The butter, syrup and sugar will be used to make part of the filling of the first recipe. You'll also need something called invertase, I've heard, if you truly would like a delectable centre for these chocolate cherries."
Satori carefully mixes the aforementioned ingredients to a mixing bowl, adding in the cherry-liquid and the invertase. After mixing for several minutes, Satori takes a ball of the mix and places one of the cherries in its centre, folding it around the cherry until it curves and covers everything except the stem. "Once the mixture's completed, wrap each cherry in it until all of them are covered. Normally, this process should take around a half-hour in a cool place - perhaps a refrigerator - for the filling to set. Once again, patience is key. If you want your chocolates right away, shame on you, and perhaps you should've chosen something that doesn't require as much forethought."
Her third eye stares towards the camera with its usually unreadable mono-ocular menace as Satori focuses on her work. She quickly brings the blocks of chocolate to the stove and begins heating them turning up the heat fairly high for some time, then gradually allowing it to cool down into a more worakable consistency.
Suddenly, she pulls out a tray of identically-wrapped cherries and slides the existing tray onto a little cart dragged by what appears to be a very small horse. The wonders never cease.
"...Now that the cherries I've wrapped are headed to cold storage, it's merely a matter of dipping these candied, wrapped cherries into the chocolate mixture. Heat the chocolate until it melts. If you're using a thermometer, that's somewhere around 46 Celsius and letting it cool until it reaches 32. I believe I'm skilled enough to eyeball it on my own. And if you don't wish your candies to spill as easily as your fragile emotions while making this the first time for someone you're head-over-heels for, I suggest you double-dip each one so that the chocolate is equally strong and holds in the cherry centre without losing any of it."
She does so with a surprising amount of calm, as if the mind-reader is reaching some bizarre level of zen in dipping each cherry in the mixture twice by the stem, then rolling each covered cherry through the chocolate mix before putting them back on the tray.
"Ideally, straining your clearly vast reserves of patience, your cherries will have to wait for a couple days to a week at room temperature as the chocolate hardens and the filling softens inside." Now with fully chocolate-covered cherries, Satori adds... "This concludes the first part of our Valentine-themed segment. As for the second, we'll have to make use of a few different ingredients..."
...With that, Satori points to the bowl of eggs and some of the remaining baking supplies, including a small sack of flour, some baking soda and a jug of milk. There also appears to be some hot coffee in a thermos nearby. She deftly cracks the eggs and adds together the butter and sugar in one bowl, then pours a mixture of chocolate and coffee into another. She pulls out two cake-pans for later use.
"Each of these bowls must be mixed individually until the batter is relatively light and the chocolate-coffee mixture is smoother and even." She tips one bowl into the other and mixes that further, still in a state of intense concentration. Her third eye has other plans, glancing around and focusing in. She taps the mixing spoon on the edge of the bowl to get some of the excess batter off, but as she holds it aloft, Koishi snatches it out of her hands. "...And be sure to have an extra spoon on hand." She retrieves a second, clean mixing spoon and pours the mixture into the two baking pans, sliding them into the oven to bake.
"...And once that's mixed properly and still relatively light, separate the mixture into two pans. Since it's a layered cake, we'll need to assemble it gradually, lest it turn into a horribly uneven chocolatey mess. Each of the cake-layers should be baked for around a half-hour to fourty-five minutes. Unfortunately, I prepared the cake in advance to show you the finished product." She reaches below and pulls out a lavish chocolate cake with a little more than a third of it missing and cut out unevenly. "...Koishi got to it first. The general idea would be to cut each layer in evenly in half and layer them atop one-another and coat each layer of the cake in whatever garnish you'd like - vanilla or chocolate frosting and such would work well. In the end, it should look something like that so long as nobody vandalizes it."
With that, Satori turns back to face the camera and addresses the audience once more... "I understand that this might be a litle condensed for my so-called bi-monthly cooking segments, but I've been so busy preparing some of these in the spirit of the season. As much as I'm seen as a quiet and socially displeasing cantankerous mind-reader, consider this my Valentine's gift to you all - a rare moment of ill-preparedness and a labour of love for those who deserve it. And, in a way, a tribute to those who've I've lost and found over my years in Genessia. If you're one of those people, you know who you are. This heart-pounding sardonic message is for you. And may those you love stay true and honest or else fear your ire."
And with that, the feed concludes as Satori can be vaguely heard whispering to her pets as she moves to the camera to switch it off...
"Oh, don't give me that look. Be glad I let you know so early. Now, hurry on and get to work. Don't keep them waiting."