Fieri Frames

[The door swings open, releasing a whiff of charred onions. A casserole sits, its surface bubbling like a forgotten lava flow. A soda fizzes, its once-bright fizz now a flat, dark pool. Steak sizzles faintly, too rare, bleeding into the pan. Potatoes arrive, their edges crispy and burnt black. The soup simmers, thick and gray, with strange floating lumps. The iced tea is murky, a shadow of its former self. The sandwich droops, filled with soggy, overcooked fillings. Donuts are stale, their glaze hardened like dried glue. The air grows colder, as if the night itself is watching.]

[-Yes. -That's a lot of work. Sheen on the water’s surface that could be. -Yes. -Huh.]

['CAUSE OIL ON THE SURFACE WILL GO FROM CRISPY TO SOGGY AND LASTED A SECOND. TAKE OUR BACON. THIS ISN'T GONNA BE BAD, I CAN TELL YA.]

[Here's our cracklings. The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. This is going to go into our grinder.]

[[Gabriel] Ones both layers are cooked evenly, you pressed down on the tortilla, and children had competent teachers on the surface of the plancha, it generates more heat and more heat generates steam, and the steam is what balloons the tortilla up.]

[The bullet holes would lie on the surface in a smooth curve.]

[The surface of the water rippled in the flashlight beam.]

[[ Speaks Spanish ] -Celsius? -Celsius. No, their surface is barren. Fantastic. The onions are great in it.]

[GIF 1: A man standing in a kitchen.] [GIF 2: A close up of a hand and a fork.] [GIF 3: A close up of a bottle.]

[A sign on the side of a road, caption: Can a spirit pass through a solid surface?]

[A group of people sitting at a table, caption: Intelligent beings have evolved and reworked this planetary surface... ...in a massive engineering enterprise.]