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Yeah, yeah, yeah.... cookies! She was kind of on the same page right? AJ didn't particularly like cooking or baking, but her mum did a lot of baking for her sweet shop, and she would sometimes lend a hand.

Hmmm... what else did they need to know? Once again her hand was in the air. "To get out of the way when there is a hot pot coming through." According to her mum anyways. She had to find that one out the hard way.

Difference between cooking and baking? Well, that was kind of easy, yeah? Cooking was the broad term for making any kind of food, while baking was specifically talking about cooking baked foods. It was kind of like a square in that respect, y'know, 'cause all baking was cooking but not all cooking was baking.

He didn't answer, though, 'cause Ascanius Stark didn't do the question and answering thing in class, yeah? At least not if he could help it. Waste of his time, really.

As to her next question, he did consider it. There were loads of things that were important when it came to kitchen things. The most he could think of, though, was using mitts for hot things in and out of the oven and also aprons. He rocked one of those, by the way, in case they were wearing them.

*adds in a few of you from before my last post*

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Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi (Post 11619256)

The Gryffindor continued to rock on the back of the chair legs while he waited for the class to start. He had been looking around the room as well and was therefore unaware of the silent spell being casted towards him. The boy gasped as he lost his balance and he fell backwards with a THUD on the ground.

He groaned as he rubbed his back and stood up quickly. No one had seen that, nope. Kevin set his chair upright again and sat back down. On all four legs this time.

The difference between cooking and baking? His head snapped up at this. Were they gonna make delicious food? Pleeeeeeaaaase let it be true! The Gryffindor LOVED food and that reminded him that he still had some toffees in his pocket. He would eat them later when the Professor wasn't facing the class.

" The difference is that....uhm..." Wait! He totally knew this! It was on the tip of his tongue. ................okay he had nothing. He had never cooked or baked before. Nor had he ever watch his mother cook. He was just interested in eating it. The boy had already forgotten that he was in the middle of a sentence and began to rock the chair back on two legs again.

Hearing the chair rocking Gryffindor start to speak up after she briefly caught a glimpse of him falling backwards, Fina waited for him to finish the sentence. Except he never did. Nor did he remember what happened the last time - a moment prior - he rocked in his chair. Frowning and tempted to cast another silent spell, Hadley stopped herself, choosing a different route this time. "Mr Hirase, perhaps a remembrall shall help you in not only class discussions, but not to rock in your chair. You wouldn't want to end up in the Healer's office with a split open head, would you?" She was being totally serious!

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Originally Posted by Team ronmione (Post 11619257)

The difference between baking and cooking? This should come rather simple to anyone really, but considering Tag had a chef in the 'house' he could give a good answer to this.

"Cooking is more commonly used for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You use, usually a frying pan or stove, or pot. And you make meals that can take up to thirty minutes for one single ingredient. Like, pasta can take some time to cook, and soups can too. Now, baking, that's for sweets and desserts. And they are usually served after the main meal. But for baking, its a lot more measured precisely with time and ingredient measurements. Cooking, you can be relaxed about how long you take or what you want to add in or out of the dish. Baking on the other hand, say you accidentally put too much sugar into your treat, it could turn out to be a complete disaster."

That was very bad. Once Tag had baked chocolate chip cookies with his sister, had read the measurements wrong on the ingredients and they had come out the stove flat and stiff, almost felt like he would be breaking a tooth.

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Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl (Post 11619262)

Cooking and baking? Were they...going to be cooking and/or baking in this class? As in they'd be around FOOD? Penelope perked right up at this thought. Merlin, yes, this was awesome. Forget how tired she was, this was really awesome. She was so glad she'd come to this lesson now.

Her hand went up. "I think one difference is that the idea of baking is usually associated with sweets, like cake and cookies and things like that, while cooking's usually more savoury and stuff, like pizza and tacos and lots of other stuff. That's not all that can be baked or cooked, but that's usually someone's first thought when they think of it."

"But baking doesn't have to be for sweets or desserts, as it is simply just heating things up in a closed oven. Pizza or lasagnas, for instance, would be considered baking." Not simply cooking, like Penelope suggested for the pizza thing.

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Originally Posted by Sararara (Post 11619270)

Hmm. Something else they needed to know? Norah raised her hand and said, "Well, you don't want to take anything out of the oven with your bare hands. That'll hurt." She knew that from experience, yep. Baking cookies with her grandmother hadn't been as fun as she had expected after she had burned herself. But they were going to bake! Cool! That probably meant there'd be some oh-so-yummy treats to eat when they finished class. Oh, food. It's enough to make any class your favorite.

"AH yes, very good to remember. Ovens are HOT pieces of equipment and burns, we'll let's just say an oven burn would be way worse than a simple sunburn." She nodded at the first year. Very good point.

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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline (Post 11619272)

Ben was glad that she had seemed happy by his welcome back. At least that was someone happy. When the lesson was begun, the third year thought about possible answers though it seemed he couldn't come up with anything his classmates weren't already mentioned. So he remained quiet, taking down the answer Professor Hadley had remarked before raising his hand to answer for her second question.

"You need to make sure that you have every ingredient that you need." Couldn't bake what you wanted without the many parts required.

"Yes. You should probably check this before you begin.... making sure you have everything, similar to potion brewing, in that regards." Fina nodded in concurrence.

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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 (Post 11619273)

Cris quickly took down notes as Professor Hadley explained the difference. Yes!! They would be baking today, and Cris' first question was what. But he knew the answer to that question would discovered soon enough.

He had a question though and so he raised his hand,"Professor I've heard mention somewhere that the heat required to bake a specific recipe may have to be taken into account depending on which altitude you are at? What may require 300 degrees Celsius when baked high above sea level may end up being a different heat range at say sea level. Is that true or an old wives tale?"

Cris hoped that was a reasonable question to ask.

...and then he raised his hand again, "Um, Professor can we maybe bake a Chocolate Banana Filled cake too?"

...well it was worth a try.

Fina blinked at this question. Heat required to bake something depending on your altitude? That was weird. "I'm not sure it depends on altitude as the only thing I'm aware of in regards to heat transfer is that it depends on how much material you have. If for instance, you have a small toaster oven, it requires a lower temperature to heat something compared with a traditional oven, as there is less space. Heat transfer is due to the movement of molecules - the molecules change places and take their heat with them. For example, heating a pot of water, the water nearer to the heat source will be warmer than the water far away. However, if you stir the water, than the hotter molecules will move away and be replaced with colder water molecules." Did that answer the question? Not really, but sort of.

...

"No." She said flatly at his next question. "First of all, we don't have the ingredients, but more importantly, I rarely condone baking sweets and consuming them." So baking a cake was out of the question, basically.

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Originally Posted by lazykitty (Post 11619274)

Yay! Based on the first question, they would not be going outside. Probably down to the kitchens though. Which was fine with her.

Anyway, this was a easy question. "Baking usually refers to cooking in an oven or making cookies and stuff like that, while cooking usually refers to using other means like a stove or microwave or making soups and things." Oooh, were they making cookies? Because that would be awesome! You know, as long as no one burned anything or set anything on fire.

Oh, so they were baking something. Probably cookies, since those were relatively easy. "Use oven mitts when removing anything from the oven." That was her rather intelligent contribution to the conversation. It was true, though.

"Yes, oven mitts are a very handy muggle invention." Hadley nodded in agreement. Went along with what Norah had said about taking stuff out of the oven with your bare hands; or not to.

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Originally Posted by Harry174 (Post 11619260)

Angel looked at the Professor and then raised her hand. "Baking is where you get your hands dirty and actually do stuff like make the food yourself, were as cooking basically you just go to the shop and buy something and then put it in the cooker." Angel really liked baking.

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Originally Posted by Harry174 (Post 11619284)

Angel raised her hands. "Professor I think that you should know what you are making otherwise you are in trouble." Angel sighed.

"Not necessarily correct with the cooking.... cooking is more the general terminology. Baking is a subset of cooking." Fina nodded at twin #1.

"But yes, yes, knowing what you're making is a very good thing to know."

Anything else? Glancing around at the students in anticipation of more questions, she waited another moment or two before speaking once more. "Right then. If there are no further questions, then please, stand up and follow me to the kitchens for some baking experience, as that will be the best way to learn and explain!"

After passing Ethan a pen, he was about to open his mouth to reply when class had started. He made a face as if to say 'Let's talk after class, mate'. As the Professor asked the difference between baking and cooking, Simon's hopes of acing the class went downhill. Cooking and baking?! Uhh.. Uhh.. He didn't know. He remained calm and decided not to raise his hand when the Professor asked for answers. Yeah, he knew what was going on. Of course he did. ~~Liar~~.

Okay so they were going to be cooking today. Awesome! Okay so maybe he could do this. He wasn't going to fail. Simon had some experience in the kitchens. Back at home, he used to help his mum out in the kitchen each night for dinner- it was always better cooking the food than cleaning up.

So now what did they need to know other than the recipe?

...Hmm..... What would his mum say?

Simon paused, racking his brain for an answer. He was about to raise his hand and offer the answer (the point that they needed to make sure that the kitchen was clean before they began baking. If it wasn't, someone could get sick. Cleanliness was always important no matter if the subject was Muggle Studies or Potions.); however, Professor Hadley was already up on her feet and asking everyone to head down to the kitchens. He lowered his hand.

He began packing his bag up and followed the Professor out the door. Merlin, they were going to be baking now.

So, they'd be baking then. Adi wasn't too interested in that but he was very much interested in eating whatever they baked. Especially if it were sweet. Hehe.

Adi raised his hand. "Measure all the ingredients properly. Well, the ones that need to be measured.'' Because who wanted incorrect portions of the ingredients that could spoil the entire baking?
...........

And so it was down to the kitchens! Adi packed up his stuff and followed his head of House.

Cris sighed sadly as he acknowledged there would be chocolate banana filled cake at the end of this lesson. Picking up his things, he waited for Jasmine to collect hers before walking out of the classroom with her and following the Professor down the halls.

They were getting right to it then. Luckily for AJ, she hadn't bothered unpacking anything so all she had to do was pick up her bag and get in the line that would eventually lead them to the kitchen.

Welp. Seemed like they were all done with the Q & A section of class, so Ascanius gathered his things and left.

Heading down to the kitchen for part 2.

Copying down the rest of the suggestions on what to remember, Ben almost missed the instructions to move. Until, of course, the third year noticed the movement around him and everyone seemingly getting up from their seats. He quickly shuffled his notes and quill into his bag and then getting up to his feet to follow suit. Cooking lesson...cool. The Gryffindor just hoping as he left the classroom that he did better with baking than he risked doing in potions.

Could food blow up?

They were heading to the kitchens! Thank Merlin that hadn't taken too long. Slinging her bag with her things in it over her shoulder, Penelope went along with the other students, heading for the kitchens.

It seemed like no one really had any more questions, probably because they all wanted to cook, and then hopefully eat their creation. Tag couldn't blame them. So, the blonde tightened the straps on his rucksack and headed out the classroom, following everyone else and the Professor.

MOVEMENT WOOOO!

Toby was RIGHT UP out of his seat again, and waited for Soph to stand up too so they could walk down to the Kitchens together. He'd never actually been in there before, so this would be SUPER cool to see. And they would be learning to COOK which was also dead handy. See? Toby knew he took this lesson for a reason.

Oop, Hadley wasn't kidding about not getting comfortable.

Layla jumped up quickly and joined everyone else in journeying down to the kitchens.

Oh, they were going to bake something! Jasmine was very excited and curious about what they would be baking. OK no sweets apparantly, but there were other tasty possibilities to consider.

Jasmine gathered her things and stood up, ready to try her hand at baking. She joined Cris and they followed the Professor in the direction of the kitchens. This was going to be fun, at least Jasmine hoped it would be.

Now this was Lux's kind of class. Learning AND food combined. This one would be really hard to beat. Professor Hadley was amazing; both of her Heads of House were wonderful women. Getting up from her seat happily, Lux followed the others to the kitchens. She was all smiles because she was happy.

CATCH UP post ahhh

Zander waited for the rest of the class to start arriving. YAWN. Why was everyone taking so long, and more importantly, why was he this early!? He rested his eyes while he waited and soon enough the lesson began!

Ooooh cooking and baking. This means there must be food involved in this lesson. Which is perfect, because after hearing about all this cooking stuff, Zander was definitely getting hungry for some yummies. He watched as everyone eagerly raised hands and offered up answers. Maybe he'd keep quiet this lesson and give everyone else a chance to add to the conversation. Yes, how kind of him.

Then before he knew it they were moving camp!?! TO THE KITCHENS! YAY KITCHENS! YAY FOOD! AHHH. Zander eagerly jumped out of his seat and followed everyone out the door. This would be lots of fun. Heh.

Kace dazed out again in this class. He heard the professor ask the difference between cooking and baking. He knew this answer since he knew how to do both. But he heard his fellow classmates answers and smiled. Some of them were creative that is for sure. Some of weren't quite right. Kace knew for baking you needed exact measurement and for cooking you didn't need to be SO precise. You can be lenient with measurements. As the professor moved on, she said they were going into the kitchens!

He smiled and stood up and followed the teacher out to the kitchens. Now this was the class he was looking forward to. He found Lux and walked out of the classroom waiting to see what they were gonna cook or bake.

Cooking.............

Nigel could not cook anything but pasta because that was easy. Put in pot and boil. Other than that he could not cook and it usually results in fire. Which is awesome. But that is besides the point. He listened to what the differences between cooking and baking or whatever it was.

Interesting, it certainly was

Well that was quick. Nigel got up and followed everyone out of the room to the kitchens.

This lesson was involving FOOD.

Caleb was definitely interested. He usually didn't like Muggle Studies, because what was the point? It wasn't like he was going to LOSE his magic any time soon...but food. Yes. Food was good. He liked food!

He got up anxiously and followed the rest of the class down to the kitchens.

Woah. They were BAKING today!? Kyroh giggled, and looked around he classroom for Maddie. LOOK BODDIE! BAKING! They had already done baking so they would be PROS at this. Such Pros.

Sliding off his chair, Kyroh quickly followed the rest of the class down to the kitchens.

Ethan grinned at Simon and got the pen he offered. Nodding, he wrote down all the important notes that he needed to know as quickly and as legibly as possible. He's very excited to go to the kitchens now, you know. Cooking, baking...it meant food. And this growing boy needs a good amount of...whatever it is that they are going to do.

He also took note of Professor Hadley's comment about his answer. That just made him miss his mother more. What's even sadder is the fact that she will never get to cook for her family anymore.

Ethan sighed to release the sad feeling in his chest, picked up his satchel and placed his notebook and Simon's pen inside it. The Slytherin stood up and slung his satchel on his shoulder and reached out to Simon. Boy, is he excited to get to the kitchen or what? Ethan shrugged and turned to where his Ravenclaw seatmate was sitting. "Er...Josette's your name, yeah?" The boy paused and selected his words carefully. She seemed to be very sensitive around people. "Sorry about earlier." For whatever it is that he did. "I'm Ethan." Hi. Hello. Again. "Come on, it's time to do some fun stuff!" Ethan grinned at the girl and followed the rest of the class to the kitchen.

Whoa. She barely got time to register anything that was being said, mainly because all she could think about was Oakey and how he would've loved to bring up his smoothies and veggie drinks and all things healthy into this class.

But now they were leaving?

Okay, well, fine. Miss Wisteria stepped outside just like everyone else. She would've gone somewhere else, if she wasn't the least bit curious about this little trip.

Hadley, you just got here, and you're already taking trips? Coolness.

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Originally Posted by Mordred (Post 11619505)

Wait, they were actually going to be creating food today?

Really?

But, she'd only baked ONCE before & that would have clearly have turned into a downright messy disaster if Ella hadn't stepped in. What was she going to do now? Actually blow up the kitchens this time? Josie let out a little bit of a soft groan as she began collecting her things to follow the Professor & the rest of the class, but stopped when the boy she was sitting next to suddenly began speaking to her again. She tensed up as he spoke to her by addressing her by her name & then was, wait, apologizing to her? A bit random, but at least she'd gotten a name from him. Ethan. She spoke softly, "I-It's nice to meet you.." She studied his very happy mood & found it pretty interesting, especially for a boy wearing those green robes. From what she understood, not a lot of Slytherins were that happy-NOT that she found him weird for being happy, it was just....different than what she's seen before?

.....And interesting..

Standing up from her chair, she was soon walking amongst her classmates as they headed towards the kitchens.

Right... they would be baking something in muggle studies class... in the kitchens with all the house elves. And they couldn't bake any sweets? This was why Bryant didn't exactly care for muggle stuff. There were other ways of getting food than having to bake it themselves. But he didn't complain and followed everyone else out of the room and down to the kitchens, throwing his bag across his back as he went.

He Knew the difference between cooking and baking.. when baking you Baked things.. in an over usually and when just plain cooking you could use the stove top or a grill or a griddle, really it was endless. Baking though that happened in an oven. Pizza was made in an oven.. so was cake. he liked pizza and cake, yes yes he did.

Before he knew it, while he was busy daydreaming of Pizza and cake, they were being ushered up and out of their seats and towards the..... Kitchens. WERE THEY MAKING CAKE!?!?

Jeremiah was EXCITED okay! and he wasted no time picking up his things and gathering with the rest of them.

TO THE KITCHENS!!!