2778: Cuisine

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{{comic
| number = 2778
| date = May 19, 2023
| title = Cuisine
| image = cuisine_2x.png
| imagesize = 200x312px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.
}}

==Explanation==
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{{w|Fusion cuisine}} is a style of cuisine based on combining aspects of the cuisines of two or more cultures -- such as a combination of French and Chinese food, or Mexican and Korean food.

Cueball has chosen to conflate the "fusion" of "fusion cuisine", combining two or more cooking styles to create exciting new forms of food, with the "fusion" of {{w|nuclear fusion}}, combining two or more elemental particles to create [https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/ exciting new forms of matter]. The recipe (for making a miniature stellar core?) calls, at the stage illustrated, for the initiation of {{w|deuterium}} fusion in a kilogram ("four cups") of {{w|heavy water}} and allowing the reaction to continue to its endpoint, {{w|iron}}. The "very high heat" specified in the recipe presumably is the million-plus degrees Kelvin at which {{w|deuterium fusion}} is initiated in protostars. Given this context, the complete lack of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_protective_equipment PPE] worn by Cueball and the hapless onlooking White Hat is peculiar - though the spatial extent of the unconstrained fusion reaction being initiated will likely make all PPE concerns instantaneously superfluous, for Cueball, White Hat, and a sizable percentage of their fellow citizens.

The title text refers to stellar fusion as responsible for at least one atom in each molecule of every living thing, all our food and water, and indeed everything but pure primordial hydrogen in the galaxy; thus Cueball's personal interest in "fusion" cuisine.

==Transcript==
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:[White Hat stands behind Cueball, who is cooking on a stove. The stove is seen from the side. Cueball has his left hand on the handle of a pot which is on one of the stove's burners. In Cueball's right hand is a small cup.]
:Cueball: Next, we heat four cups of heavy water over ''very'' high heat until it thickens and becomes rich in iron.

:[Caption below the panel:]
:I'm getting really into fusion cuisine.

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