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Overview
Daniel attempts to make an apple crumble for the first time using fruit, apples, sugar alternative, flour, butter, and cinnamon, while struggling with peeling the apples.
Apples cannot be marketed as organic without an ongoing payment of £600 per month.
Following confusion regarding cookware microwave safety, microwave settings, late addition of cinnamon, and trouble blending butter into the flour, the resulting crumble turns out dry, powdery, burnt, and diluted in flavor, leading Daniel to discard it.
Themes
Preparing an apple crumble.
Certification costs for selling organic apples.
Cookware microwave safety and appliance settings.
Developments
Daniel attempts to prepare an apple crumble with fruit, apples, sugar alternative, flour, butter, and cinnamon.
Daniel struggles to peel apples and questions whether to insert whole apples into the dish.
Daniel mixes flour and butter for the topping, though the butter does not break down easily.
Daniel recalls the cinnamon powder too late to incorporate it into the fruit layer.
A dish labeled oven-safe up to 200 is initially misread before Daniel recognizes it cannot be used in a microwave.
The crumble emerges powdery, burnt, and dry, leading Daniel to throw it into the bin.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether the dish is metal or microwave safe is initially unclear.
Whether liquid, milk, or water should be added is uncertain.
Whether excessive flour was incorporated into the crumble topping is uncertain.
Which setting to select on the appliance is uncertain because of numerous options.
Whether the visible vapors constitute smoke is uncertain.