Whee! It's annoyingly and uncomfortably hot. And what's the silliest thing you can do when the day's already stupidly hot?

Bake something!

So, I decided to bake cookies1. After all, what's a 180° oven when it's already Quite Warm™ outside? This plan went much as scheduled for most of it - just typical cookie-making, which is by itself fairly mind-numbing. Except, of course, for one thing.

The amorphous cookie mix slush refused to become dough.

So, I added a little more flour, and got slightly more floury slush. It tastes exactly as it should, it's just runny. You cannot bake runny cookieslush; you end up with cookie sheets covered in a single gene-spliced supercookie2.

Is it a food? It is a plate? No! It's Supercookie! Tastier than a speeding bullet! More surface area than a locomotive! Able to clad tall buildings with a single sheet!

And not a bit of cookiekryptonite to be found. Grr.

So, I stared at it for a moment. I didn't really expect much - it's amourphous cookieslush, it doesn't care what you think of it. And then, then I figured out that - just maybe - the fact that it's 35°C in the gorram shade today might be having a tinytiny little effect on the relative levels of Supercookie slushiness.

The Supercookie is having a little time out in the Refrigerator of Solitude. I expect that - given time - it'll play nice and become dough3 rather than slush.

ETA: Aaaand... no. No cookie for me. Or, rather, Supercookie for me. I lost my biscuit sheets Quite Some Time ago, which is good - it means I use scone trays, which have edges, which means that I don't need to scrape cookie off the inside of my oven.

The word of the day is: Oops.
  1. I occasionally feel like typing that as cookiees. Just remember: cakes don't rip people's arms off when they rise.
  2. Which I just accidetally typed as "suppercookie".
  3. The worst-case scenario there is it'll become nice PlayDoh. Which, really, no. Not good.

Date: 2006-11-21 06:13 am (UTC)
ext_3472: Sauron drinking tea. (Default)
From: [identity profile] maggiebloome.livejournal.com
It's odd, isn't it, how we do completely illogical things hot days. For instance, this morning, I sent an hour and twenty minutes working on logarithms, and then drank a mug of hot tea. This may or may not have contributed to my brainmelty...

Date: 2006-11-21 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Mmm, tea. I should go an- NO. Rar. Stupid hot day. :)

Date: 2006-11-21 06:36 am (UTC)
ext_3472: Sauron drinking tea. (Default)
From: [identity profile] maggiebloome.livejournal.com
Iced tea just isn't the same...

Date: 2006-11-21 06:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Not in the slightest. In my reality, cold tea just means it's time to go and make some more.

Date: 2006-11-21 06:42 am (UTC)
ext_3472: Sauron drinking tea. (Default)
From: [identity profile] maggiebloome.livejournal.com
Lol, finally a treat you can use to beat somebody to death in a humourous fasion before enjoying a tasty snack!

Date: 2006-11-21 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
I like Aunty Kath's M&M Cookie Dough if I'm buying dough; my cookies end up too thick and not quite biscuity enough.

Date: 2006-11-21 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I've never bought cookie dough; I wouldn't have a clue where to start. All my cookies are hand-made and occasionally devolve into absolute disasters.

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