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Ignis had absolutely made it a habit to check the status of the fire extinguishers in the cooking classroom of the community center well before getting started, and today was no exception, since they would be using both the ovens and the stoves this week, gods help them. He wondered why he kept doing this to himself, when they could have just as easily started focusing on things that required no cooking, some nice picnic box lunches sort of things, but, well, even though he wasn't even from this world, it was hard not to get swept up in all the trappings of the season, especially when it came to its culinary inspirations.

"Welcome back," he said, trying his best to keep the dread of expectation out of his cool, otherwise calm voice. "We're almost out of what I've been told is called 'Spooky Season' here on this planet, and so I thought we'd tackle a few hopefully simple recipes for it to add to your repertoires. I was thinking perhaps of looking into making candy, but I feel, for the scope of this class to help you to become more independent in the kitchen and less dependant on the variety of take-out afforded to us on this island, I thought we'd focus elsewhere.

"Namely," he gestured toward the ingredients on his station, which included a pumpkin, but don't worry, that was just for effect; there were plenty of canned pumpkin options ready for them to use, "a pumpkin pie, a pumpkin chili to help chase away these chillier days, and, moving away from the gourd for a bit and into a small indulgence into the fun of the season, we will be....attempting," oh, there was so much emphasis on that word right now, "to make our own caramel to use for caramel apples.

"I will say this now," he added, because that was the part he feared the most, "caramal is deceptive in its simplicity, and requires a lot of a care and attention to detail and temperature. I know this has been a little bit of a...hurdle in this particular class, so I would recommend you all take exceptional care with this part of the assignments. But, with that in mind, let us get started..."

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If one were to turn how much Ignis emphasized care and caution with your caramel as he went over the recipes for the students into a drinking game...

...RIP your liver.

Will Ignis completely regret bringing caramel into the mix?

Will the pan gods one day smite him for all the harm he was subjecting to them in this classroom?

Only time will tell!

Was there going to be any doubt that Goose was going to try making caramel apples? The key word being tried because this was Goose attempting to cook things after all.

The good news was that for once heat wasn’t the problem for Goose but that was as far as the good news went.

Goose wasn’t even able to get that far for heat to be a problem.

The problem was that he somehow managed to end up dropping the saucepan before it had even been put on the stove. So maybe Ignis did have cause for concern from the pan gods there.

The mixture went everywhere … on him, the floor, his station.

“I know I’ve been in sticky situations before but not quite so literally,” Goose sighed as he looked at the mess he’d made.

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As a frequent perpetrator of poorly place pun himself, Ignis would have felt it was in poor taste to groan at Goose's assessment of the situation were it not for the mess. The mess, he felt, gave him more than enough room to be disparaging.

"But at least nothing is on fire," he said.

Paused, for dramatic effect.

"Yet. And I think we've spent just as much time learning about cleaning in this class as we have actual cooking at this point..."

Goose chuckled a bit sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his neck and then realised that was a bad idea, “I think I got my fill of fire and explosions last week at home,” he said, Slades Armada had come in handy for something else at least, not to mention Doc’s attempt at trying to teach him to use the stove but Goose had a feeling Ignis didn’t want to hear about how the walls of his apartment got a bit singed from that lesson, “I’ll clean everything up though,” he was at least getting rather good at that though?

Dwight had felt a twinge of confidence, just a twinge when he heard pumpkin pie was an option for the class assignment. It had been a while be he had made pumpkin pie a few times over the years with Lizzie and while they didn't always turn out great they were edible... most of the time.

Some of that confidence started to fade however as he stood at the work station with bowl on the counter, pie crust ready to fill, and stood scratching his head. Something didn't look right. The filling was a bit on the soupy side.

"I think I put in too much half and half by mistake...." he told Ignis sheepishly. "Is there a way to save it, or best to just start over?"

He will be silently convincing himself that there is no learning without challenge, there is no learning without challenge, there is no....

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