As the chatter over direct-style effects gains steam with Odersky publishing "Lean Scala" manifesto and speaking in multiple conferences about it, I dipped my toes into direct-style scala, and will present, without any bias, a comparison of both effect systems & direct-style in multiple angles. I will present the comparison in a culinary journey of 12 hours (metaphorically that long) between Software Mill's Ox & Typelevel's Cats-Effect.