Number One Chef In The Intergalactic Era

Chapter 31

"Why did it turn out like this?"

Bella is supposed to be the one to question it but to her surprise, Chloe is the one who asked her. While she is shocked, Chloe is confused. She did everything that Bella wrote to her. So why does it looks so bad? And the taste? No need to ask. You can imagine how horrible it would taste in a glance.

Bella stares at Chloe for a moment before sighing. If it was previous her and Chloe was her student, she would have scolded her senseless. But she isn't the previous hers now nor Chloe her student. She is her friend. Besides, the reason why her soup turned out so.... vicious must be because it's her first time cooking. Still Bella is confused as how can someone turn something so easy to some dark matters.

"Chloe, how did you cook it?" Bella asks in a calm voice. To know why her tasty soup has turned into dark cuisine, she has to know how did her dearest friend cooked it.

"I did everything you wrote!" Chloe exclaims in her defense. She herself is confused at her dark cuisine.

"If you really did everything I wrote then your soup isn't supposed to turn out like....this." Bella says as she eyes the soup in disgust. She quickly looks away from the disgusting thing. She is already having goosebumps just looking at it.

"Well, I....." Chloe opens her mouth with hesitation. "Actually there were some parts I couldn't understand. So I just did it as I thought it was right. I never cooked before and it's my first time cooking so....."

Chloe trails off guiltily.  She could ask Bella when she didn't understand something but she wanted to surprise Bella. She wanted to show her that she could do it. But all her hard work and anticipation went down in drain because of her dark soup.

Bella's mind clicked with Chloe's explanation. She actually forgot that Chloe is someone of this era where most of the people doesn't know what food is let alone eat them. So, obviously Chloe doesn't know how to cook. People may think that since she, a former chef has wrote down the recipe of the soup, even an amateur should be able to cook it, right? Wrong. To cook you have to have simple understanding, which the people of this era lacks.

Take salt as an example. Everyone knows that salt is a very important ingredients to cook something. It doesn't matter if it's simple meal, dessert or drinks, salt is a must. Without salt, everything is like tasteless medicine. Everyone who is used to food knows it. But people of this era doesn't. Since, they don't know this simple thing, obviously their cooking would turn out like witch's potion.

Bella understood it after giving it some thought. She asked Chloe was it the reason why her soup turn out like this. Chloe hesitantly nods before explaining more.

"Well....it's not the only reason but one of them. I couldn't understand the phrase where you wrote 'add some salt'. You didn't write the exact amount of salt so I.....pour the whole bag of salt into it."

Bella slaps her forehead so loudly at her explanation that Chloe startles and starts to think if it would leave any mark on her beautiful friend's face. She quickly pulls Bella's hand away and sees red marks already forming on her pale skin.

"Why did you do that, Bella?" Chloe looks at Bella with a grievance face and asks. She knows that Bella must be disappointed at her and she feels guilty for it.

"Why did you....never mind." Bella was about to ask her the same question but stops in the end. She finally realizes that it's her fault for not thinking it through before handing her the recipe.

"What more mistakes did you do?"

"I.... didn't understand another phrase that says 'add some seasoning'. You have wrote which seasoning should be added when but again.....you didn't wrote that amount, so...." Chloe takes a deep breath before finishing her sentence "I put all the seasoning."