Gerda's Three-Minute Cooking

"Tell me, tell me, tell me."

"What is that song?"

"Three minute cooking theme"

　the next day. In order to teach them how to use dried noodles and canned food, beastman maids and some members of the magic gun corps were supposed to work in the kitchen together with the royal castle's chef and the Dragonis Mountain Kingdom's military personnel. That's why I came to inspect the situation with Isla.

"First of all, this is canned soup."

　Don, and Gerda put a fairly large canned food on the countertop. According to my memory, it must have been a canned food containing about 1.4kg of concentrated soup. Since it is written as "O'neal" in our language, the contents should be so-called onion soup.

"This is a canned O'Neal soup that has been double concentrated. I don't."

　While saying that, Gerda picked up the knife that was prepared on the counter.

"As you can see, it's inside a metal cylinder--it's inside a can, so it needs to be opened. "

　I've already developed a can opener, and I've made it available to all the troops who use canned food. seems to practice

"Like this, put the edge of the blade on the edge of the top of the can, lightly pomp the handle and push the blade up. You can pry it open."

　When Gerda, who played the role of the lecturer, said so, one of the onlookers raised his hand and spoke.

"I think it's a little troublesome to open it, but is there any advantage to using this kanzume?"

"That's right. First of all, this canned food can be stored for years after it's made. After that, as you can see, it's in a metal can, so it can be transported by horse-drawn carriage. It's hard to break, and it's perfectly possible to transport it over long distances.

　Saying that, Gerda emptied the contents of the opened can into the pot with a sociable smile.

"I'll dilute it with water, but this soup will taste just right when it's doubled, so just pour water into this can and add the same amount of water as the contents. If you bring it to a boil while stirring and heat it up, you're done."

　Then, the finished product is transferred to a smaller bowl and distributed to the chefs of the royal castle and military personnel who are onlookers. I will take it once and check the contents. Yep, it's got o'neal, a vegetable that looks like an onion that's been braised, and some bits of bacon or something.

"What..."

"Oh..."

"The taste is a little strong, but after exercising, this strong flavored soup will sink into your body."

"Hmm, that's a big deal. Can this be preserved for a year? If you add bread to this soup, it will be a feast in the open air."

"It's wonderful that you can make it just by transferring it to a pot and boiling it."

　The canned food seemed to have had a considerable impact on the people who tasted it, and almost everyone had a surprised expression on their face. The only people who aren't surprised are our humans.

"Next is instant noodles. This one is also easy."

　While saying that, the next thing Gerda took out was a wooden box about the size of an arm.

"This wooden box is designed to protect the quality of instant noodles. It's the same stamping technique used when storing wheat."

　Saying that, she took out four instant noodles from the box.

"If you want to eat this, you can eat it as it is. It has a good taste and it won't upset your stomach. I think you'll be thirsty if you keep it like this."

　While saying that, I put the four instant noodles into a pot of boiling water.

"Just because instant noodles are instant noodles, you can put them in boiling water and eat them as soon as they become soft.

　Saying that, he transferred about a mouthful of noodles and soup to a small bowl and distributed them one after another. Yeah, it tastes cheap, but it's not bad. The key to victory was being able to reproduce freeze-drying relatively easily with magic.

"It's like magic..."

"Is it possible to eat just by pouring boiling water and leaving it for a while?

"If you just prepare enough hot water to burn yourself, you can do it with magic if you are good at water magic without bothering to light a fire."

"I want to know the manufacturing method"

　Oops, I can't teach you how to make it so easily. If you do, do trial and error. Our research and development department makes prototypes every day and eats failed ones to create the perfect one. The latest canned foods, instant noodles, and other instant foods are still made in the R&D department. What I brought this time is something that was conceived at an especially high degree of perfection in the early stages.

"As you can see, this one can also be transported in a wooden box carved with the preservation technique, so it's suitable for long-distance transportation. Even if it becomes, it will be an instant soup that will fill you up, so it's not a problem."

　Saying that, Gerda dared to crush the instant noodles with her own hands into a bowl, pour boiling water over it, and serve it to the onlookers as a soup in which the noodles floated. Yeah, I've never eaten like this in my original world, but if you think of broken noodles as croutons or something, I think it's something like this.

　After that, they showed off canned meat and fish, and canned stew, which is thicker than soup. became.

　After all, the most common question was whether canned foods and instant noodles can be purchased in your own country, or whether you can make them in your own country.

　Currently, we are preparing a mass production system to prepare for stockpiling for our own army and for our own country, so it is difficult to sell in large quantities at this time, but if you want to consider purchasing when the mass production system is ready, it is a sample. I will prepare to provide … so, if an envoy is officially sent to the Merinard Kingdom at a later date, it will be in the form of responding to negotiations.

　Regarding the manufacturing method, I politely refused to disclose it because it was a technology under development and a new technology that would be responsible for the future industry of Merinard Kingdom. Of course, I won't stop trying to make copies based on samples, but I said that I wouldn't recommend canned food because depending on how the quality is managed, it can cause very dangerous symptoms of food poisoning.

　Along with that, is your country's canned food okay? I was posed with the question, but I answered that there was no problem because we have thorough quality control for the nervous processing process.

　Well, at least at this point, no food poisoning accidents have been confirmed either in the laboratory or in the field. I have the R&D department and Lime and the others check it, so at least I won't miss it in the laboratory. The problem is when the irradiation of purification magic becomes appropriate at the site, but it's okay for now because we're thoroughly managing that as well. I can't be complacent. The spirit that accidents do happen is important.

　So, the presentation of canned food and instant noodles was completed without any problems. It seems that they will serve it for lunch, so let's look forward to it.