God of cooking

Chapter 10: Grand Chef preliminaries, and... (1)

This does not belong to me It is translated by KobatoChanDaiSuki

Jo Minjoon was told to bid his farewell because he was going to leave Jessie very soon, but even after having received the reissuance of his card Jo Minjoon continued to stay on Lucas's house. It wasn't that he didn't want to. However Lucas didn't let Jo Minjoon go, and even Jane didn't let him. At first, he wanted to decline and find somewhere else to say, But Jane's one sentence made Jo Minjoon stay.

"Be the bridge that let's Jessie cross over to her father.'

How could someone keep saying that they will leave when they are told that. Jessie too, grunted as if she didn't like the idea, it was as if she didn't dislike having Jo Minjoon stay.

15 days passed like that. On the preliminaries morning. Lucas's house. Jo Minjoon was standing in front of the cutting board and was staring blankly. Or at least it looked like that in the outside. However, Jo Minjoon was looking on the window in front of him.

[The estimated cooking score is 5.]

It was a new function acquired after his level went up to 6. A cooking simulation on what you wanted to make. It was a system that, when you thought of a recipe in your head, it predicted the final score of that recipe.

It had various uses. No, saying that it was useful was not enough. If he followed the recipe there would be no way to fail the cooking. To say the truth, it was a strength that could shine more brightly on a competition like master chef. There were countless participants that got disqualified on the stage where you designed your dish. If there were no errors on your designing, it meant that the cooking success probability got higher.

'Also I'll be able to save ingredient fees'

If his cooking skills went up by a bit you got something like perception. While cooking, you could know the flavor of a dish even without tasting the seasoning. So when trying new dishes, the probability of failing also got lower. But it was only making it not disgusting. The foremost recipe that brought out the best taste. Someone who could estimate the very best recipe at their first time wasn't an ordinary person. People who could do that were divided in two.

Masters and geniuses.
Jo Minjoon was neither a master nor a genius. However he could borrow those skills with restrictions. Of course he didn't posses shocking and artistic skills like them but......

'Hard work will compensate for it.'

Jo Minjoon believed that. Talent wasn't all in cooking. Of course, talent could help you progress faster, but the height it could reach was similar to hard work. The rest was a difference of the individual.

While helping Jessie with making jelly, Jo Minjoon thought about a lot of things. What Jessie prepared wasn't simple jelly. It was filled with reproach and cheeriness for his dad. And that jelly became the most valuable thing because of those qualities.

A thought crossed over his mind. That what chefs put on their dish wasn't simply cooking. So what did they have to put? Hope for eating it simply? That was just a formality.

While immersed in his thoughts, he continued thinking but he couldn't come up with an answer. However Jo Minjoon didn't become anxious. Just like he said to Jessie sometime, cooking was a battle with oneself.

"Let's cook first."

Jo Minjoon accorded with Lucas that he would be the one to prepare all of the meals instead of freelancing. To say the truth, it was consideration for each of them. For Jane it was consideration for letting Jo Minjoon into her kitchen because of his situation. As for Jo Minjoon, he could hone his cooking skills and save some money like he would.