Ch.27 A Decent Homemade Dish

After a few minutes of moving to the area where the various guilds gather, a large red brick building comes into view. The door is an automatic door that opens with a touch, so I can feel safe.

The cooking guild is an office that manages all things related to cooking, such as applications to start a restaurant, recipe registration, and sales. It mainly handles administrative work and does not train professional chefs. If you want to be that, you'll have to train at a restaurant.

The source of this information was a friend who told me about it in my first year of high school. He was an avid Chinese restaurant patron.

When I touch the door and enter, the first thing that catches my eyes is the spacious kitchen space at the back. It is fully equipped with cooking utensils and equipment, and can be used by multiple people.

A quick glance at the poster reveals that they regularly hold cooking classes for beginners, as well as intermediate and advanced courses for those who want to improve their cooking skills.

"Welcome to the Cooking Guild. How can I help you?"

"I'd like to purchase some recipes and use the kitchen in the back."

"Hmm, a free kitchen..."

The receptionist flipped through the papers, her eyes wandering over the ones pinned to the binder, then she looked up.

"You can use the kitchen from now. Also, you can purchase recipes over there."

Apparently I had to book beforehand to use the kitchen, but there is an empty spot at this time, so I got lucky and didn't have to wait.

I greeted the receptionist and headed to the area where the recipes I had been taught were being sold.

The recipes are sold on paper, but because of printing technology, they are not handwritten by artisans. Therefore, they are generally cheap. The reason they are called "basic" is because the seller negotiates the price and sells it to the cooking guild.

The cooking guild sets prices accordingly and sells to the public so that they can make a profit, so the more money they pay the seller, the higher the price of the recipe will be.

"What should I buy...?"

I can cook without a recipe, so there's no need to buy tamagoyaki or other things I can make myself.

You might think that since you can do it on your own, there's no need to buy a recipe, but that's not true.

You need a recipe when you want to make a dish you don't know. Even though this is a modern setting, this is fantasy, you know? There's even an ingredient called slime water.

And what do you do when you want to make mapo tofu from scratch? Setting aside the question of whether it's okay because you don't want to make it or because you can make it, there's no such convenient thing as the internet in this game world

With the digital devices, there are only a few apps for specific things. Are there any cooking recipe apps? A rival to the cooking guild.

In other words, you'll want to buy it when you want to make something but don't know how to do it, or when you want to use a fantasy ingredient.

By the way, one of the conditions for joining the cooking guild is to purchase five or more recipes within the guild.

"Even if I don't have enough ingredients now, I can make it later..."

The recipes I chose were ones that use slime water, and ones that use eggs and milk. A solid five.

The total cost was 300 Monies. The slime water recipe was the cheapest.

Moving on to the next door, there is a fantasy world version of a supermarket, with food products lined up in an open space with no doors to make it easier to enter. It's just called a shop.

I'll pick out some items here because I don't have all the ingredients I need.

I should have stopped by on the way, but I was so eager to cook that it slipped my mind.

First, I put some seasonings in the basket. The flavor of the ingredients themselves is good, but you can get tired of it, so seasoning is important.

And oil. Isn't the process of oiling something that comes with cooking? Yes, it's necessary.

"Maybe I should buy some more ingredients."

I chose eggs and milk that I thought would go well in cooking. However, there will be a deadline for when they are safe to eat, so it's not good to buy too much.

I was glad to see that they also had sizes that were gentle on small species. Although there were fewer items per product than in the standard sizes, the variety was the same.

After paying and putting the items in my bag, I rush off to the kitchen.

In the spacious kitchen at the back of the guild, players and NPCs who had made reservations at the reception desk were already cooking.

I slipped through the gap and took up a position in an empty spot.

"Now, let's cook."

Oh, sorry for yelling. Sorry. Yes, sorry. People around me are paying attention.

Please stop. It's hard to do something when people are paying attention to you.

"There's smoke coming from the pot over there."

"Oh, you're right. Thank you, spi-... fai-... spirit fairy-an!"

"There's a fire in your frying pan... oh, flambé? Don't look at me, just keep your eyes on your hands."

"What are you making?"

"I'll think about it. Is yours scrambled eggs? They look delicious."

"This is an omelette."

Everyone is getting distracted by me, you should go back to your own cooking.

After washing my hands and preparing a cutting board, I take out the bunashimeji mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, and shiosho mushrooms and cut them into bite-sized pieces with a knife.

Once that's done, I place a frying pan on the stove and add a little oil to heat it up. Once it's at the right temperature, I add the mushrooms.

I stir-fry them gently without touching the pan too much until cooked through, then I crack the eggs and add them in. Finally, I cover them briefly and cook until lightly cooked through.

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[Consumable item: Mushroom and egg stew]

★☆☆☆☆

A dish made by stir-frying several mushrooms and covering them with eggs.

The fluffy eggs go down smoothly.

Creator: Blood-Rotten Tree Fairy Vester

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Although I had to make full use of my telekinesis to cook, I was able to complete the first dish without any mistake.

It's a rough dish and I'm not sure if it can be called a dish, but I wonder if it would have turned out similar if I had fried an egg with it.

Of course it's only 1 star. Since I'm not part of the cooking guild, it won't get any higher than that.

By the way, the effects and descriptions of the items you create will be created by evaluating the process and steps taken to create the item.

In this case, even though it's a very simple dish, the flavor text mentions the fluffy eggs.

"Now, put this on a plate and to the reception desk we go~"

I placed the food I had just finished cooking on a small plate and headed for the reception desk. The reason being, I needed it to join the guild.

In addition to purchasing 5 recipes, the requirement for joining the cooking guild is to prove to the guild staff that the dish was made by you.

If it's a successful dish that doesn't burn, it will leave a good impression.

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〘Cooking Guild〙

An office that manages all things related to cooking, including applications for starting a restaurant, recipe registration, sales, etc.

Inside, there are shops selling a variety of products and a kitchen that anyone can use.

Tableware and cooking utensils can be used freely, but they cannot be taken outside the guild.

Conditions for joining:

1. Purchase 5 or more recipes at the recipe shop within the guild.

2. Make a dish and prove to the guild staff that you made it.

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