The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 322

Episode 322: Best condition.

“Let’s find something.”

“…?”

In the words I said lightly.

Beomseok Jo opened his eyes wide and said.

“Do you really think we can get enough oil to move this equipment?”

No, whatever.

I don’t know if it’s possible or not.

“There is a method worth trying.”

“What is that…!”

It’s something I’ve thought about since I first heard about oil…

I guess I should say.

‘It’s correct to say it was before that.’

Me too.

There was one method I had in mind for some time.

“The amount of oil needed to run a tram is not something that can be obtained by simply stopping at one or two gas stations. “The reason I tried to rob the supply unit was because there was no other option to obtain that much oil.”

“That’s right, isn’t it?”

“You can get that amount?”

“No, I told you.”

I guess I’ll try to get it.

I don’t know if it will work or not.

“Don’t expect too much.”

“Don’t expect anything… It’s ridiculous to even think it’s possible…”

He said, looking at me with an expression that seemed completely incomprehensible.

“…Now that I think about it, I didn’t know your job or abilities.”

“yes?”

“What kind of ability do you have that allows you to do something like that?”

In those words.

I tilted my head and asked.

“Why are you suddenly asking about my abilities?”

“…huh? What does that mean? “Didn’t you mean that you would secure oil using your abilities?”

Beomseok Jo is confused by my words.

I only realized it after hearing those words.

“iced coffee. “You must be misunderstanding something.”

“…?”

This old man.

I’m misunderstanding something.

‘What kind of ability do you have to be able to do something like that?’

That question was a bit wrong.

“surely. “I said there was a method worth trying.”

Beomseok Jo is looking at me in a cold sweat.

I said to him, scratching my cheek in embarrassment.

“I never specifically said it was my ability?”

“what?”

It is a matter of obtaining a sufficient amount of oil.

Well….

‘How can I do that on my own?’

With just my abilities.

It’s a little difficult.

* * *

Even after that.

Beomseok Jo kept asking me for more details.

‘I’m not sure if it will work or not yet, so I can’t tell you everything.’

I somehow managed to shake off Jo Beom-seok’s arm that was holding me.

Returned to the Southern Branch.

And the first place I headed to.

Well…

I wonder where the chef would go.

“What is it, senior? “Where did you go and are you coming back now?”

“Well, I have some business to attend to.”

“…Senior, you seem to be a chef who spends more time outside.”

Of course.

It was a kitchen.

Let me open the door and come in.

Howard, who was watching something intently, raised his head and greeted me.

“What were you looking at?”

“Ah, this?”

I asked curiously what he was looking at.

Howard unfolds and shows what looks like a notebook.

“I summarized what my senior said.”

“….”

There.

The [Chef]’s secrets as an awakened person that I taught him were written in full.

‘He has the style of a model student that doesn’t match his appearance or personality… this guy.’

I felt it last time too.

Contrary to his appearance like a gangster with a tough personality.

This guy was extremely sincere when it came to cooking.

“I didn’t know you’d bother taking notes. “If you don’t remember something, you could ask me and I would have answered it again.”

“Well… I didn’t just write it down to memorize it.”

“huh?”

“Actually, the content itself was something worth remembering even after hearing it once. Should I say that it is so shocking that even if I try to forget it, I cannot forget it?”

Fertilizer is also used.

You also have to be able to cook on an iron plate.

“You should even be able to cook elements such as water and fire, and even yourself… These are things that cannot be forgotten, even if they are absurd.”

“Hmm.”

When I listed it, I saw it.

It was definitely a complete departure from the general concept of cooking.

“Even though I remember it so well, I still took notes.”

“There was a lot of content that was so unconventional and unacceptable, right? Somehow my hard head couldn’t accept it. Still, this knowledge is essential for the next level of [cooking] in this world.”

He said, tapping his head with his notebook.

“It may take some time, but I think if I keep reading it over and over like this, I will gain some acceptance of it.”

“…was that something like that?”

Howard Zinn.

The Korean name is probably Jinyangsik.

After I ate the [Calm] dish to cool my head.

I’ve heard more details about this guy.

Then I realized one thing.

‘I mean, he was a very popular guy who didn’t fit in.’

I got into cooking late, though.

Nevertheless, it has grown at an incredible rate due to its unique insight and sincerity in cooking.

Although I didn’t know.

This is the result of building up my skills while working as a direct disciple of a very famous chef who appears on TV.

I think he was a well-known figure in the industry.

‘It’s hard to accept… la.’

Despite being such a great cook.

This guy’s abilities as an awakened person were at a level that could not even be compared to mine at the time when I was in my early 20s.

‘Not only in combat, but also in cooking.’

The reason is this.

“Having to break down notions was not as easy as I thought.”

He was a chef before the destruction.

The concept of cooking as an awakened person was not easily accepted by most people.

“If you think about it, it’s quite difficult.”

Actually, it’s strange that a cook like me became a chef.

For orthodox chefs who have devoted their lives to cooking, it is a task that requires breaking the existing notions that have been built up over a lifetime.

It can be difficult.

“Yeah… I understand it’s difficult.”

“hmm?”

the problem is.

“That notion… I think we need to break it down a little bit.”

“What do you mean?”

this time.

I felt like I needed to do that hard work.

* * *

“stop!”

I took a confused Howard out of the restaurant.

Started moving to a certain location.

OK.

The people who were standing guard in front of the place I was going to came out and blocked my path.

“This is the warehouse area!”

“Even if you are a member of the association, please refrain from approaching unless you are related…”

The leader, Beom-Seok Cho, was a former general, and did you say that this group was also a group to rebuild the military?

It certainly looks like the regular group members are disciplined as well.

“I came after receiving permission from General Cho.”

“To the general? “What’s your name…”

“My name is Shin Young-jun.”

“ah…! It was him. “I heard about it.”

“We were rude. Please come in.”

Fortunately.

A request for cooperation for this matter has already been made directly to the commander here.

I was able to get into the warehouse compartment without issue.

“You suddenly brought me to the warehouse.”

“Senior, you’re doing this for a reason, man.”

I walked straight across the warehouse compartment and opened the door to the warehouse inside.

“Take this.”

“…Aren’t these the corpses of monsters?”

After taking out the corpses of the monsters there.

I returned to the restaurant again.

And…

“What are you trying to do?”

“What are you watching?”

After cleaning the monsters’ meat well and placing it in the shadow.

“That’s fat.”

“Good to see.”

Leaving only the fat.

I put them in a large pot with some water and started to boil them.

“…I don’t know why, but senior.”

Howard is also a skilled chef in his own right.

I quickly figured out what I was trying to do.

That’s how it was completed.

This is it.

“You were trying to make oil.”

“Yeah man.”

[Mixed magical animal fat]

Made from monster fat.

It was animal fat.

* * *

“So you need oil to move cars and tanks?”

After roughly finishing the work.

I told Howard what happened with Beomseok Cho.

OK.

Howard said with a puzzled expression.

“Is this what you were thinking of as an alternative?”

“that’s right.”

[Mixed Magical Animal Oil]

Animal oil produced by breaking down monster fat.

Well, if we compare it by the standards before the destruction, it would be something like lard, which is pork fat.

Or, it is somewhat similar to vegetable oil, such as cooking oil.

“This… can be used like car oil, right?”

“I guess so. “First of all, it’s oil.”

It’s not just the oil made from this monster meat.

Cooking oil and lard can basically be used as vehicle oil.

In fact, in the past, of course, there were videos of cars being driven using pork fat.

Cooking oil or sesame oil.

There were even cases where the same thing was done using human nostril oil.

‘There is a record of tanks being operated using pork fat during World War II because there was no oil at all.’

Because of that.

When I first discovered this [mixed magical animal oil].

‘…Would you like to drive a vehicle with this?’

I also thought about it.

The first time I discovered and used this oil was right before my encounter with that black fish.

After discovering this oil.

We succeeded in recapturing the hardware warehouse that Kamangi was guarding.

It became possible to use the materials there.

in other words.

‘I just happened to be able to run the car properly, and there’s also oil.’

Isn’t it only natural

that the idea of using that oil as fuel for this vehicle would arise ?

But…

that plan was soon aborted.

‘Of course, it wasn’t without problems.’

As well as fuel economy.

Since the equipment was not designed to use that oil in the first place, problems will most likely arise if used as is.

“I know what you were thinking, but this is nonsense.”

The biggest problem among them is….

“If you use this oil in a vehicle, it will harden right away.”

“Well, that’s true.”

Animal oil.

The point was that if you leave it alone, it hardens.

Animal oil exists as a solid below a certain temperature.

That pork fat, also known as lard.

In restaurants, it was common for it to be stored in a hardened state.

“No, but it doesn’t harden right away like you say.”

“…huh?”

“When the vehicle is started, the melted state remains for quite a long time due to the heat of the engine. “An engine with oil running on it basically has high heat.”

At my words.

Howard muttered absentmindedly.

“Am I mistaken in making it sound like I’ve done something before…?”

“….”

Thanks to that, I had to scrap one of my precious vehicles…

Well, that doesn’t matter now!

“The important thing is that if you turn off the engine, it will eventually harden.”

Only when the engine is running.

Thanks to the heat from the engine and battery, it does not melt and is used as oil.

‘Once you turn off that engine, that’s it.’

The solidified oil remains in fuel lines, fine nozzles, etc.

It blocks the path through which oil passes.

Unless that vehicle requires a lot of effort to be restored.

It becomes a vehicle that cannot be used as is.

so that.

This plan was scrapped in our unit as well.

Despite the fact that our unit even has a fortress that can soon fly to the sky.

I found myself in an ironic situation where I had no choice but to worry about the oil to run the tank…

“It’s a little different here.”

“…?”

I am the chef in front of me.

Jin Yang-sik….

Instead, he looked at Howard Jin and said.

“Hey junior.”

“…Why do you call me that?”

“Junior, when do you think the ‘best condition’ for animal fat as a cooking ingredient is?”

It was a somewhat unexpected question.

Howard tilted his head and quickly came up with an answer.

“Uhm, that’s right. “In a state where the expiration date or consumption date has not passed…”

But.

Those words did not last long.

“Go scold!!!!!!!!!!”

“!?”

I guess he was a famous chef at one time.

This is the guy who explains the definition of general oil.

“Am I wrong?”

“no. “This is an exemplary correct answer.”

“What nonsense is this senior talking about…!”

“Not too long ago.”

If it had been said in the era before destruction.

Of course that would have been the correct answer.

but.

“Not from now on.”

“…?”

“In the first place. It’s become a situation where you can’t even get oil at the supermarket. “The expiration date and consumption date are not even written down, so are you going to calculate them yourself?”

“That’s not true.”

The past and present environments have changed so much.

“So memorize it.”

I am.

After breaking down the old and worn-out notions he had.

“Animal fat…is at its best when in liquid form!”

“…?”

there.

I decided to introduce a new concept.

“So, that’s some bullshit again….”

“We don’t have time to make them understand, so we’re just cramming them in.”

Of course.

There was one ability I had my eye on from the beginning.

[Ingredient management]

[I know that being a chef is not just about being good at cooking!]

[Thorough management of ingredients can be seen as another quality of a good chef.]

[The tenacity to serve only the best ingredients to customers is a characteristic. Appeared.]

If I had it.

A morale skill that will be more effective than anything else.

Unfortunately, it is a power I cannot have.

It doesn’t matter who writes it.

[Ingredients that have been managed by the chef are maintained in the best condition that the chef considers.]

[Ingredients that have been managed are not adversely affected by the passage of time, and even when external factors intervene, their condition is extremely damaged. It gets slower.]

“Shut up and memorize!”

“Oh, I understand, so stop…!”

“Animal fat is at its best when it is liquid!”

This guy.

Because the time has come to use it.