From My CuriousCat
"What are your cooking headcanons for La Squadra?"
Risotto: I like leaning towards excellent cook because it's just another way of bringing and keeping the team (his last family) together. His preferences are very simple so he focused on learning the basics of everything, and now he can make just about anything and leaves it to the others to chip in with seasoning and ingredients of their choice for variety. Uses Metallica to fetch kitchen implements from the wall and the drawers, so caution is advised.
Formaggio: If it can't be made from scratch in fifteen minutes or less then he is not interested because he needs almost immediate gratification. Can cook eggs a dozen ways and knows how to make imitations of certain dishes using the forbidden shortcuts (his tiramisu is considered a crime), but he infinitely prefers hovering by when someone else is cooking and dipping a piece of bread in the simmering ragú. Or would, if it weren't for…
Prosciutto: Doesn't care to learn, but you want him in the kitchen anyway because he will measure out everything perfectly (yes, he will remove that extra gram of flour), read you the recipe, reassure you and calm your frayed nerves if you make mistakes, and keep everyone else out of the kitchen so they don't dip into the ingredients or the raw batter, your simmering ragú or your frosting. He will also help with presentation when you're done.
Pesci: The somewhat clumsy but enthusiastic kitchen hand. He is an excellent taster because he can instinctively tell you what's missing, just don't make him explain his answer because he really couldn't tell you the reason. He will fetch your ingredients for you and clear surfaces or do the dishes while you cook: anything to make himself useful and pull his weight. The only thing he ever makes from scratch are sandwiches and paninis (they're really good).
Ghiaccio: La Squadra's official ice cream machine because once they realized he can hand-churn ice cream with White Album, they stopped buying store brand altogether. He isn't actually a big fan of the stuff, but he has so much professional pride that making ice cream by hand gives him a lot of satisfaction and joy, even if he refuses to show it. Takes requests for flavorings as long as they're reasonable. This is his niche and he refuses to branch out.
Melone: Everything is an experiment. Has made rice and pasta in Gatorade, tried out ingredient combinations that shouldn't be put together, and also ingredient combinations that have no right tasting so good together. Has hooked every other member on some weird combination of food items at least once. Number one enemy of raw dough: gluten allergy be damned, he will eat it in little chunks if you made the foolish mistake of not having Prosciutto around.
Illuso: King of single serving meals and microwave mug cakes because he hates sharing. He actually has a microwave and an ingredient cabinet in his apartment for bad days, but most of the time he has no problem using the common area microwave so you hear that PING! and just know he's made something nice and he's not giving you a single bite of it. You have to be really close (in cahoots) to stand a chance at getting a mug cake for yourself.
Sorbet and Gelato: Putting them together for this one because my original version said they "[U]sed to love cooking together - to them it was another love language." (Apparently I ran out of space at this point since CC had a hard limit.) Sorbet has a love-hate relationship with cooking because it is necessary for his comfort and yet takes too much effort, but having someone around to help and share the burden makes him more reconciled to it. He would probably like it more if he was better at it, let's be honest: he only knows a few staples and half-heartedly juggles them around. Gelato is fairly good at cooking, but all he ever makes is soup, from whatever they happened to have at home, and he eyeballs everything so wantonly that Prosciutto never ever offers to help out when he's at the stove. Despite this, his soups always end up ridiculously good.
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