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[arcanepower]

[screaming internally]

I-I-I'm not nice! I-I'm actually really, really mean!

[monolike]

Oh? [The microwave beeps and Sorey peeks in to check on the butter.] Sorry, I guess I misunderstood. I'll keep that in mind for the future.

[arcanepower]

[Oh my god, slay him now. Sorey is totally calling him on his shit.]

A... anyway, mix the cookie crumbs and the butter. It won't be perfect. [He's attacking a pot of chocolate with vigor. The stove is gradually melting the contents, and it smells nice.] But that's fine. It just needs to be wet.

[monolike]

[Sorey smiles to himself and snaps the towel he'd been using to dry over his shoulder, adding the crumbs to the butter and mixing. Belthazar reminds him of Mikleo and while it hurts, somewhere deep and painful, it's nice to have the familiarity too.] I have a question.

[arcanepower]

[He levitates a pie pan onto the counter, then turns to look at Sorey again.]

What is it?

[If it's a question about cooking, he doesn't mind explaining.]

[monolike]

[yeah don't worry sorey is merciful] Why is the recipe called 'no bake' if you still have to use heat to make parts of it?

[arcanepower]

[That's... a really innocent question, and Belth can't help the way his expression softens into a smile.]

It's all in how you want the food to set. A hot set, like using the oven, is used to encourage bubbles in dough and eliminate all the moisture. As a result, things bind together-- like the difference between cookie dough and baked cookies. You don't use it to mix ingredients because it takes a long time and the heat isn't high enough.

A cold set will preserve the layers of a dessert. If we tossed it in the oven, it'd just melt into a lump, burn, and make a mess.

[He reaches for the buttered crumbs, and he makes sure Sorey can see how he dumps them into the pie pan and begins making a layer of them, like a crust.]

[monolike]

Ohhh. [So you just punch it into a crust, that's Sorey's kind of recipe.] So it's only baking if it goes into an oven, even if you're using heat for other things. I got it.