God of cooking

Chapter 86: The pig and the fire (2)

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Actually thinking up of an 8-point recipe wasn't such a surprising thing now because there were only two restrictions on the recipe: use pork and use fire. Actually, he thought that there was no pork recipe that didn't use fire, so in the end he only had to think of a recipe related to cooking pork.

And while he was in Grand Chef's house, he had tried more than ten or twenty dishes related to pork. They were chefs that came from all over the country. Even if they were amateurs, there wasn't a thing or two that he couldn't gain from them. That information was piled up in his head, so it would be more strange if he couldn't think of an 8-point recipe.

However, it didn't just end on thinking of an 8-point recipe. You could know just by listening that it was a 10 points recipe. Because it would end when you heard that explanation of another person. However, it was a different story if you talked about bringing the 100% of the flavor of that recipe. Three different dishes in two hours. If he didn't want to make a mistake, he had to meticulously think the cooking process.

He even had to set the completion time for the three dishes to be the same. It wasn't that hard of a condition. For pork galbi, he had to make the sauce beforehand and simmer it in it, and for meat ball, it didn't need too much of cooking time. So the dish that inevitably needed more time would be dongpo pork.

"........Did you already think of it?"

Kaya was frowning and crossing her fingers, and then she asked while glancing at him. Jo Minjoon replied with a relaxed face.

"Well, it's not that hard to think about, right?"
"......Disgusting."

Kaya glared at her and crossed her fingers again. He talked to her again.

"You can't think of a recipe?"
"No, I thought of many, but I don't know what to use."
"The two over there, don't talk."

Emily looked at the two of them, and sent a fierce look. Kaya pouted and crossed her fingers again. It wasn't that she was particularly slow. He could see that the other participants were not yet done designing a recipe.

'Was I this fast........?'

At first, he didn't think that he was this much. But perhaps, it could be a problem of conviction. The others don't know if a recipe would turn out to be good or not even if it was good because they didn't have the system that scored the recipe. However, Jo Minjoon didn't need to think about that. Because of that, he could be calm to the point that the judges sent preoccupied sights.

"Minjoon. Did you already finish the designing?"
"Yes."
"Think for a bit more. The recipe you thought of being perfect can actually bring you a completely different result. Just like there are dishes with horrible recipes, but can give a heaven's flavor."
"Yes, I am thinking."

Jo Minjoon replied while laughing calmly. Alan opened his mouth feeling somewhat uncomfortable, but he closed it again. Thinking about it, there was almost no time that Jo Minjoon's recipe was a mess. And it didn't seem like it will be a mess just because it was today.

"........I will believe you."

In the end, the only thing Alan could say was that much. Jo Minjoon slowly loosened his fingers. For the cooking score to be high meant that the difficulty was also high. If he acted stupidly for even a minute, there was a high chance that he could miss the timing to give it flavor.

There was nothing to say about the dongpo pork and the meatballs that had to be fried, and the pork galbi was also a problem. Because he was planning to roast the pork galbi in direct fire. Although the difficulty was lower compared to Kaya's grilled eel, he wasn't as skilled as Kaya. So it was a mission which he had to concentrate more than anytime else.