Chapter 10: Cooking
Peridot had been tired of Camp Pining hearts for a while. She was afraid of losing interest but Steven reassured her that obsessions come and go. So instead she started watching other things. Cartoons, Comedies, and what really caught her eye was the cooking channel.
She looked at the screen curiously as a brown haired lady was preparing a pastry in the oven. "And now you'll want to turn it up at least 4 degrees Celsius." The woman said to her audience.
Peridot glanced over at the screen. She soon became amazed that the pastry was now brown after being in the oven. "Amazing! This magic primitive device managed to turn raw ingredients into solid edibles!" She said glancing at the screen in awe.
She rubbed her hand on her chin in thought. She was sure she would be able to perform a similar task to that of the human.
She chuckled excitedly and ran to the warppad.
Soon enough she returned with hands full of flour, milk, eggs and loads of other ingredients, even ones that didn't make sense.
She soon returned excitedly placing all the ingredients down onto a bench. She carefully removed one of Lapis's meepmorps to use her bench for her cooking.
She somehow already got an oven (probably from gen harvest) and proceeded to turn it on. She got out the bag of flour and without realizing opened it up spraying flour powder everywhere. She coughed and wiped herself off clean before getting the remaining flour into a bowl.
She then grabbed five eggs and cracked them into the bowl without realizing she was to throw the shell away. She then grabbed the milk and poured the entire carton into the bowl spraying milk everywhere.
Peridot grabbed a potato and threw it into the bowl. She then grabbed a wooden spoon and began attempting to stir the mixture. She grunted trying to stir the potato and egg shells into the bowl. The contents clanked against the bowl as she found herself trying not to spill the contents all over the floor.
The potato kept knocking around in the bowl. She grunted finally finding it enough and stabbed the potato to stop it from rolling inside the bowl. She huffed and wiped a bead of sweat across her forehead.
Cooking was hard.
She then turned up the oven to it's hottest. She groaned looking at the number "9" on the oven. "Doesn't this thing go any hotter?!" She said as if someone was inside the barn with her.
She then grabbed a bag of salt and poured a large portion of it into the bowl. She stirred everything around as best she could.
"perfect!" She beamed examining her creation. She then placed it into the oven and waiting for it to cook.
A few minutes later and smoke already started fuming from the oven.
Peridot noticed the black smoke. "That looks about done!" She confirmed pulling the tray out.
The bowl was filled with a foul odored dreadful looking substance. She glanced upon her creation proudly.
"It is done!" She beamed.
"Now let's see how those crystal clods like my brilliant creation!" She chuckled.
Well, she did eventually propose her 'meal' to the rest of the Gems.
Pearl could barely contain her disgust.
Amethyst ate the thing and didn't even care.
Steven shuddered in disgust pretending to like it when in reality he wanted to throw up.
Garnet gave Peridot a thumbs up and responded to pearl with. "At least she's trying something new"
Lapis looked at the bowl
Blankly. "I'm not putting that in my body" she retorted crossing her arms.
Steven chewed the mixture forcing a grin. He fake hummed in satisfaction. "Yeah that's really good Peridot" he lied.
Peridot had a massive grin after it all. "Well, I guess now I could cook you all the food you want Steven!" She responded.
Steven frowned. "Oh joy" he said fake smiling at her. He then turned away sweating nervously. "Oh man" he muttered in disgust.
A/N: I don't know about any of you, but I'm not a great cook. I can only cook two things. Pancakes and Spaghetti, and even then I'm still learning. So this chapter is more likely dedicated to my lack of cooking skills.
Also it does reference Papyrus from Undertale, giving the impression that Peridot cannot cook. I mean, they're both cinnamon rolls!