Chapter 567 (1/2)

Fran and her group had decided on the dish they were going to make and started cooking it, but the way they cooked was very different from the other groups.

While the other groups were cooking with pans over the fire, they were using improvised stoves made with Earth Magic.

Moreover, Fran provided them with top-grade knives and pans from her dimensional storage. It was a very high-quality product made by a Dwarven master.

The seasoning used in the preparation and the milk used to remove the smells was also used lavishly.

She also used a makeshift pressure cooker made with a combination of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water Magic to cook the meat until it was tender.

The makeshift-pressure cooker looked simple at first glance, but it was actually a technique that required a high level of skill and was very difficult to maintain and adjust in combination with magic.

Well, no one was aware of that though. But if a Magic Teacher were to see it, they would be amazed at the waste of its use.

Yafi, the teacher in charge of the Cooking Class, was admiring all the dishes that Fran and her group had laid out in front of her.

「Hee? It has no distinctive pungent smell at all. It’s almost hard to believe that you used Skunk Raccoon meat for this」

From the white porcelain dishes, it was hard to believe that they were used for outdoor cooking. No, it was not only Yafi but the rest of the groups seemed to think so as well.

「What kind of cooking is this?」

「Well, I wonder…?」

「It looks delicious… Moreover, they even made four dishes in such a short time…」

It was not just the cooking that the students were impressed with.

「Did you see how fast they dismantled it? That was amazing」

「I also listened to her explanation, and it was very informative」

「As expected of a real active adventurer…」

「Or rather, I never thought that magic can be used like that」

「One day, I’m gonna be able to do the same…」

Even if she had simply cooked outdoors, they could feel the difference in their abilities. They looked exhausted and looked at Fran with envy.

Well, the students were probably tired because they were physically and mentally drained from the multiple foul smell disturbances that had occurred. Perhaps, half of the groups had failed to dismantle and damaged its poison glands. If they had smelled the fainting stench over and over again, they must have been exhausted.

「This looks delicious」

Yafi’s words probably summed up her feelings pretty well. As far as I could tell, the food had not been good so far.

It was all about herb-crusted grilled food and salty soup. She couldn’t stop eating for the assessment, and it was quite hard for her.

The only thing that seemed to be better was the cooking of the group that received good reviews in this class every time. A brown-skinned, platinum-blonde, fresh-looking man from another continent was in charge of the cooking as the leader of that group.

He seemed to come from a desert country called the Kingdom of Azalea, which was apparently famous for its cuisine that used a lot of spices. In this class, he was also making Azalean soup and a tortilla-like dish with grilled meat sandwiched between flour dough.

At first glance, I thought the soup might be a curry soup, but it seemed more like a stew with spices.

The filling of the tortilla was a layer of thinly sliced meat that has been baked and then sliced into thin strips, just like a kebab.

The spices and coconut milk seemed to have removed a lot of the smell from the meat, but it was not perfect due to the lack of preparation such as draining the blood. Yafi’s assessment of it was 「It’s so-so」.

Now, how would the cooking that Fran and her group had cooked, be evaluated?

「I’ll dig in then」

「Nn」

「I wonder if this is pounded and minced Skunk Raccoon meat? Is that cheese on top?」

「After removing as much fat as possible from the abdomen, we crushed it into small pieces, mixed with special seasoning, rolled up and baked」

Well, to put it simply, it was a hamburger steak mixed with curry powder and baked, with cheese on top of it.

「And how does it taste――」

Yafi then used her fork to cut up the hamburger and slowly brought it to her mouth.

「Mogu mogu…!」