Cooking - 5

As of right now, it has been about 2 months since I was reincarnated or I guess transmigrated here and a lot has changed, I'm now less focused on increasing my strength and now trying to learn as much about cooking as possible, although books have been useful for me ever since I came to this world when I come to cooking you are forced to learn the more advanced stuff by actually doing it

One time my dad caught me cooking and thinking it could be a good dad and son bonding exercise we desperately needed he decided to start teaching me how to cook, he's strict as a teacher and will tell me every wrong thing I did on a dish even if it's as small as adding the smallest it of extra salt

Though unlike some people he helps me fix my mistakes after pointing them out, I won't lie cooking like him is exactly difficult for me as most of the time when I cooked in my previous life I did pretty much only eyeball measurements so switching to all this precise as shit cooking was extremely hard

Considering how strict he was with me I wanted to see how he acted with his subordinates in the kitchen and well let's just say it was unexpectedly expected, he was the Gordon Ramsay of the Torko universe though a bit less famous and lacking a bit on the creativity of his insults

Either way, seeing him insult some was a site to behold just like Gordon Ramsay he was loud and relentless not stopping until someone did it right or quit, it was also funny seeing my dad screaming curse words at someone while at home he tells me to never say anything even similar to curse words

Anyway I have improved my cooking skills a lot since I started learning from my dad to the point I'm as good as a professional chef and that is not just me saying it but my dad as well, guess I do have quite the talent for cooking after all

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The school has started for me and just as I expected the classes were fucking hilarious, I never thought I would see a professional teacher teaching 10-year-olds how to make the perfect omelet or what temperature a stake should be cooked to and the difference between them

But honestly, it's not all that surprising as cooks in this world are seen as even more important than engineers and scientists, it's seen as the most important job in society and the most sought after job as well some chefs can make tens of millions of yen's even if their skills are mediocre

Oh yeah I forgot all about the currency and economics of this world although I'm not an expert on the subject if I remember correctly the economy as of right now is stable but is slowly going lower and lower because fewer ingredients are being discovered every year

The 4 heavenly kings have yet to appear so I think when they do show up and start discovering hundreds of ingredients every year or something the economy will start going up again though zebra could easily mess everything up

Well enough of me rambling back to my actual life, it was going pretty well but I was starting to feel stagnant again at least for my physical abilities and combat skills, my appetite and energy still had a long way to go and of course, my cooking skills still needed a lot of work

My dad was starting to show up a lot more around the house and the place had become less gloomy so my cooking skills were constantly improving as for my appetite energy I had a lot less time to work on it but I would say I could now consistently use it and didn't run out of energy as quickly so big improvement on that part

I could now quite easily beat a turnip but I still have trouble with groups larger than 10 of them on the bright side, I think I should be strong enough to kill a 100-year-old galala gator or even older but not the 300-year-old one that's still too strong for me

It might seem weird that I wouldn't be able to beat a capture level 8 beats but can easily beat a capture level 15 one but the reason is quite simple, capture levels do not equal power all of the time the reason turnips have a higher capture level then a gala gator is because

One they live in harder areas to survive in, two they use pack tactics and are thus harder to capture and finally because turnips taste like shit most of the time people want to train them and sell them to collectors for more money and well-killing something is way easier then capturing and training it

Oh shit I was rambling again time to get back on track, from what I can see this world's educational system is way better than ours but that's not surprising considering how shit the US educational system is not only that but even elementary schools in this world allow you to choose what you want to learn

This world seems to give children and teens more control over their life choices, which could be seen as both a good and bad thing but for me who is an 18-year-old this is very useful, with this system I won't be forced by the school to go to like art school or something

I mean what's the point of these useless and annoying classes when I know what I want to be and can achieve them right now if I so wish, the only things limiting me are the fact in to young and that I'm a bit too weak

My dad has also pretty much secured me a job in the restaurant where he works as an assistant chef, of course I will he told me I needed to first be 15 and get a work permit so that's not going to happen for a while, but that's just means more time for me to sharpen my skills and grow

Talking about skills I should try to learn life erase and knocking if possible though I don't think knocking is possible and I don't think life Erase is going to be easy to learn by any means considering I have to get rid of all my desires to kill something and I mean everything even the tiniest but will ruin the technique

But with my vastly improved cognitive abilities thanks to my gourmet cell I should be able to control my emotions way better and maybe learn it, but that's for later as of right now the best thing I can do for myself is keep learning cooking from my dad and improve my gourmet cells

Talking about gourmet cell if I wanted to evolve mine I estimate I would need to eat a capture level 20 beast but before that, I still had maybe around 2 or 3 more walls I needed to break before I could evolve them and I still have a lot more level ups I need to go through

Even so, if I keep my current speed of progression I would be way stronger than Toriko at the start of the series but I doubt that would happen and I will most likely start slowing down the more I level up, I mean that just seems like the most logical situation

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Get ready for a lot of time skips also I'm sick