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[madcuriosity]

Oh ah, hello everyone, I do hope you're having a lovely day. I was wondering if I might ask a question, and since so many people here are from so many different worlds, I am sure someone is bound to know the answer...

Though I suppose I could always try it for myself. [She mumbles.]

You see, last month, Mr. Ken and I were discussing something, and I have been trying to find the answer on my own but I can't find anything about it in books. [Alice is still from a time when you looked in books for all your answers, not the internet. But hey, at least she's gotten to this point.]

My question is: Can you melt strawberries?

We were discussing making chocolate-covered strawberries, and Mr. Ken, in his usually pessimistic way [Calling out her adopted brother, don't mind her.] mentioned he might melt strawberries as something that could go wrong.

And I got so terribly curious! [Because of course she did.] I know you can blend strawberries and mash them and mush them, grind them and dice them and all sorts to make jams and preserves and jellies and drinks, but not MELT them.

So, can you? That is, can you melt strawberries? I do have elemental magic, how hot does the fire have to be to melt it? I suppose logically you COULD melt anything.

Oh! Oh are there things that are unmeltable? [She tilts her head and taps her lips.] Is unmeltable a real word? It doesn't SOUND like a real word. [Alice shrugs, quite used to making up words at this point in her life.]

In any case, any answers to my question, or oh! Perhaps help in setting up the experiment to see if strawberries can melt, would be much appreciated!

Thank you very much! [And thus, she curtsies to the camera.]

Comments

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[fruitknife]

[...Ken. Ken pls.]

You're way more likely to burn strawberries than you are to melt 'em.

Tempering chocolate, though, is a bitch and a half. There's a reason I don't fuck around with it much.

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[forbothofus]

[ The boy who traveled with fire-breathing dragons, sadly, knows the answer from personal experience. ]

You can, but it's not easy and it changes the taste.

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[scension]

[Aww, this question is kind of cute...]

Mash them or melt them, it's the same result in the end, right? I don't see any reason why you couldn't.
Just be careful with whatever heat source you use if you try it yourself. Burns from fire magic can really hurt!

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[fullgauntlet]

I think if you tried to melt strawberries you might burn them instead? I think making strawberries into jam or using milk while heating them might work better. I'm not too sure.

But using elemental magic might be risky. I think alchemy magic might work better if you're trying to melt the strawberries.

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[madcuriosity]

[Alice is blushing deeply and trying to ignore the cursing. She bites her lip.]

Oh... I see... well thank you for the information. I suppose it's quite curious why some things melt and others burn.

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[madcuriosity]

Oh, I don't really wish to eat it.

But you can melt them, then? Truly? Goodness! How hot does it have to be to melt them?

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[madcuriosity]

Well, I suppose it's the same, though one doesn't require fire.

I would be the source, should I try it.

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[madcuriosity]

I'm not either, that is why I am asking.

How alchemy magic melt strawberries? Melting needs fire, doesn't it?

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[originaldragoon]

I am not a culinary expert, but I am fairly certain that you cannot melt strawberries. Or any other fruit for that matter.

[fruitknife]

Chemistry, probably.

[scension]

In that case, be even more careful, OK?
Honestly - I get wanting to try, but it seems like more trouble than it's worth to melt them yourself. I'd leave it to a chef.

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[madcuriosity]

Not any fruit at all? Why not? You can melt metal, you can melt candle wax.

[madcuriosity]

I don't know that area of study, that's only for colleges.

[madcuriosity]

But I don't know any chefs, so I have no choice but to do it myself, you see.

[originaldragoon]

Metal and wax are not the same as fruit. They have different properties.

[She's a far cry from a scientist but she could at least understand some basics.]

Like, fruit has a juice inside of it that you can squeeze out. Metal and wax, on the other hand, do not contain any kind of liquid in them when they are solid.

[madcuriosity]

Then you should most certainly be able to melt fruit, you can melt ice, after all, and that's a liquid. I can freeze and melt the JUICE of a fruit, so why can't I do that to the fruit itself?

[originaldragoon]

Ice is water that had been frozen, so the natural state of it is a liquid, not a solid.

[Soa, this was starting to give her a headache.]

Though it is true that you can freeze the juice and melt it, like with most other liquids, that is not true for the main body of the fruit that is solid. That part is most likely to burn than melt.

[madcuriosity]

How terribly complicated. [The seven-year-old agrees, this is headache-inducing.]

So metal can melt, ice can melt, wax can melt, liquid can melt, but FRUIT cannot, fruit, like wood, just burns.

Unless you're going to tell me wood ALSO can melt?

[originaldragoon]

Wood definitely cannot melt, especially if it has been dried.

[madcuriosity]

Well, at least that has stayed the same.

Still, thank you for answering all of this.

[fruitknife]

Don't ask me. If they covered it in high school I wasn't paying attention. [If he was there at all, since it might've been a class... after he basically stopped going.]

[forbothofus]

Um... really hot? Like lava. But not so hot the fruit chars and disintegrates.

[originaldragoon]

I cannot imagine that changing anytime soon.

[Unless some very strange magic comes into play, but Rose doesn't bring that up. She has a feeling that it will take the conversation down another weird path.]

You are welcomed though.

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[ferrytale]

I do not know what a "strawberry" is, but the answer is very simple.

[ yes, he is absolutely going to go full know-it-all on this when he doesn't know what strawberries are. ]

All matter has different temperatures at which something happens, such as changing its state, like the temperature at which point liquid water will become solid ice and another to change it into a gaseous form.

Many things have a temperature at which they will combust that is lower than the temperature at which they will melt, therefore the thing will simply react with oxygen and proceed to burn, rather than melt. It usually requires a specialised process to make a substance skip a step, like turning ice directly into vapour. Burning and melting are also not the same, but I am sure you knew that.

[fullgauntlet]

Usually, yeah. But with Alchemy I can change the atoms in an object to take another form. I've never tried it with cooking but with the same sort of logic, I could probably change strawberries into... melted strawberries.

[Technically. Sort of.]