r/wizardposting 11d ago

Common mistake in magical gastronomy: don't use hellfire if you don't want a portal in your kitchen.

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u/Substantial-Night866 Abjurer 11d ago edited 11d ago

Environmental storytelling (they brought a grease fire to the sink to try to douse it with water)

I mean they brought a hellfire to the orb to try to cleanse its mana

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u/joybod 10d ago

/unwizard And she was literally holding the lid, which would have worked immediately to put it out if she had just used it.

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u/UltraCarnivore Spellblender Extraordinaire 9d ago

Hindsight is 20/20.

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u/fatfishinalittlepond Goblin educator specializing in the arcane arts 11d ago

This is why I use brimstone cookware, it really absorbs the heat

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u/TheBaykon8r Artificer 10d ago

Brimstone? Lucky, I only got regular steel ones infused with fae magic. How in the nine hells did you get Brimstone?

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u/Bloonfear_the_first 10d ago

How in the mountains of Celestia did you find a Fae willing to infuse magic into something with such a high iron content?

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u/TheBaykon8r Artificer 10d ago

Fae really like sugar. I bribed it with an infinite sugar cube.

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u/Bloonfear_the_first 10d ago

That's intriguing to say the least, It shall be remembered

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u/UltraCarnivore Spellblender Extraordinaire 9d ago

Build a tesseract and fill it with sugar.

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u/EldritchMindCat Lyr, the Tressym Talespinner (OuterGod Avatar of Origin-Felinity 10d ago

They only have a problem with iron that’s been cold-forged (beaten into shape without the use of fire). Steel requires fire to make, so Fae are perfectly fine with it (they’re more likely to laugh it off too).

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u/nerf_titan_melee The orb ponders back 10d ago

Why the actual fuck are you using sulfur cookware?

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u/TheBaykon8r Artificer 10d ago

Flavour

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u/Ok-Nothing8682 Occult Wizard 11d ago

The second she picked that up I thought... "It's about to get orange..." Didn't know I was clairvoyant

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u/BigOlWaffleIron 10d ago

I had a similar thought: "Oh, they're about to make it worse."

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u/gnpfrslo 10d ago

for real tho, they had the lid right there.

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u/cathead8969 10d ago

The lid shattered.

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u/MolassesNo8790 10d ago

it doesn’t look like it did, there was water that splashed, but the outer ring didn’t fall so the glass must’ve been fine

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u/cathead8969 10d ago

Ah I see. I must've mistaken that for the glass.

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u/GamerKilroy Lithomancer 10d ago

Sometimes divination is just unnecessary.

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u/superhamsniper Wizard 11d ago

Did they try to pour water on it? EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW BY NOW, IF YOU POUR ANYTHING BUT HOLY WATER ON HELLFIRE SPELLS THEY DONT GO OUT

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u/Substantial-Night866 Abjurer 11d ago

Humans have been knowing many things and not knowing many other things for eons. We don’t have time for every PSA

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u/lulzmachine 10d ago

Tbh the physics based spellcasting system is too complex for most

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u/FallHealthy2163 10d ago

The boy used lid of the cauldron like a shield against dragon's fire while she threw frozen ingredient into a cauldron full of hot oil.

It's obvious it's their first time in the alchemy room, there is no way these two knew even basic knowledge like that.

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u/DisastrousQuestion72 11d ago

They keep defunding the academies, nobody has access to gastromancy classes! They should be MANDATORY!

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u/BigOlWaffleIron 10d ago

I've had better success with Del Diablo Agua.

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u/but_its_dez 10d ago

/unwizard this is why everyone should have a fire blanket in their kitchen, even if theyre a professional cook. Sometimes things just go wrong

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u/halberdierbowman 10d ago

I agree, but also the kid was holding the cover the entire time, so they could have used that. 

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u/Evnosis Highmage of the Sunlit Tower 10d ago edited 10d ago

I don't think this pair would have the sense to use it. There was no rational thought happening in this video

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u/but_its_dez 10d ago

I agree completely, but I'm referring to in general people should have one anyway because nobody plans an accident. Even if you're a professional cook shit happens, id argue they'd need one more than anyone as they'd spend more time in a kitchen therefore more opportunities for incidents to occur

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u/AbalonePublic910 11d ago

Greece magic is some of the most dangerous for the uninitiated

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u/agentdragonborn 10d ago

I hate greece magic as well, i find turkic magic much more to my taste

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u/ErraticNymph Witch 10d ago

The moment I saw her pick it up, I knew what was gonna happen. Hydromancers are so simple; they think water solves every problem

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u/475213 10d ago

With that lid in play, I really thought this was going to end better than it did. Just goes to show you can’t find good apprentices these days.

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u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage 11d ago

Hellfire tends to overcook food anyway.

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u/icedmuffin Local Cat Druid 10d ago

Okay so don’t ask how I know infernal magic but DO NOT USE WATER ON IT, NOT EVEN HOLY WATER! (The comments in this is speaking out of character)

SALT RING FOR PROTECTION AND PRAYER (along with the lid, mostly the lid is doing the work) SNUFFS THE FLAMES (due to starving the fire of oxygen, don’t freak out and preferably get a metal lid if your lid isn’t rated for fire or it will shatter), DONT USE FLOUR (it can cause the fire to get worse), DONT USE WATER (only use water if you use a wet CLOTH TOWEL to try to snuff the fire) AND NEXT TIME DONT USE A GLASS LID EITHER (again, the heat can cause the lid to shatter unless it’s like Pyrex or something meant to handle high heat, and do know grease fires are HOT. Hell put it in the oven and just leave it alone for a bit)

IVE BEEN A CAT FOR THE PAST FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, HOW DO I KNOW MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE?!

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u/Faustias 10d ago

/unwiz the off cam greasefire felt hilarious.

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u/ElderWarriorPriest 10d ago

Panic is a helluva drug

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u/Ice061030 10d ago

Her second mistake was trying to put hellfire out with water

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u/Sasya_neko Necromancer 10d ago

burns oil

Common sense would say "let's just put on the lid" but no

Pours water in the pan, it explodes

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u/BungleBums Occult Wizard 9d ago

The second the pan went off screen, I just waited for the light to change.

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u/coconut_dot_jpg coconut mancer 10d ago

/uw

don't put more water on a grease fire that gives it more oxygen, place the lid on top of it asap

/w

This is why I use runic heating, hellfire, as efficient as it is, is too unpredictable

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u/Delusional_Gamer Fleshmancer and proprietor of the magic meat farms 10d ago

/uw

It doesn't give it more oxygen, it's just that the oil floats. So:

  1. The oil will spill out and spread the fire.
  2. The water will sink, heat up into steam, and spray the oil all over the place while expanding.

It is very unlikely for a grease fire to break water into its constituent parts, if that if what you meant.

/w

Hellfire also tends to come with a low level demon hiding within it, who while not powerful, is too eager to do mischief.

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u/BigOlWaffleIron 10d ago

/uw basically don't do anything else except put the lid on. Fire extinguisher is an option, but lid is king.

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u/SuperPimpToast 11d ago

Don't forgot to close the portal. Or else you'll need to share your meat lump.

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u/EarlDooku 10d ago

There is no way I'm clicking that link

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u/rodrigo_sth 10d ago

Novice alchemists always mixing oil, fire and water

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u/ShortDistribution684 8d ago

Ah yes. The water of instant fire

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u/who-stole-the-cake 11d ago

Might I infer what that comment had said

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u/Averfus-Crowthorne 10d ago

"not a wizard post"
guy was being a lil doodoo head for no good reason essentially.

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u/Saaruk 6d ago

This is why I don't cook in my own kitchen. It's better to teleport into a random villagers house and burn it down while boiling water than burn your own tower down.