Have you ever seen glowing food? That's why you draw a food-themed anime.

The sauce for this dish is made from the slightly fishy-smelling mackerel sauce from canned mackerel.

Although the canned food is not made with expensive canned fish, it is just ready-to-eat mackerel.

However, the sauce inside is also a concentrated essence.

"It smells a bit fishy." Xu Zhou took a sniff, and the fishy smell that cats love hit him right in the head.

"You can neutralize the fishy smell with citrus vinegar." The little red-haired boy next to him immediately handed over the citrus vinegar.

Xu Zhou took the citrus vinegar and mixed the mackerel sauce with it. The fishy smell was immediately neutralized by the light fragrance of citrus and the subtle vinegar flavor.

The entire sauce turned a pale yellow color.

Once the potato starch is incorporated, the pale yellow sauce looks surprisingly refreshing.

"This color is really nice..."

"It looks like it has a strong mackerel flavor, but it's not heavy; instead, it's very refreshing."

Xu Zhou took a small bite and was extremely satisfied.

The sauce was poured over the meat patties, and the originally greasy meat patties were neutralized by the refreshing sauce with its citrus aroma.

Even if you eat a whole piece, you won't feel greasy. On the contrary, it's refreshing, comfortable, and has a rich meaty flavor.

"The meat patties are ready."

"And egg drop soup."

There's no real trick to making egg drop soup; it's just that you use squid tentacles to make the broth, and then you beat the eggs to make egg drop soup.

Looking at the squid legs in his hand, Xu Zhou was skeptical. Could these squid legs really be used to make broth?

After trying again and again, Xu Zhou finally stopped when he was able to accurately make enough broth for fifty people in one go.

...

He heard the recipe's success notification when he successfully cooked an egg drop soup using squid broth.

[With a recipe familiarity exceeding 60%, congratulations on successfully mastering the fast-food mackerel burger patty meal!]

Below was a long list of recipe ingredients. Xu Zhou glanced at it and found that the descriptions and prices were pretty much what he had expected.

[Totsuki Academy Special Flour: Medium-quality flour sourced by Totsuki Academy, specifically designed for simple meal preparation. It retains the core value of the wheat grains to the greatest extent, with strictly controlled flour yield, and undergoes several screening processes, resulting in a fine texture…]

Price: 50g/6 yuan

[Eggs: This dish uses medium-quality Snow Feather Chicken pasteurized eggs. The eggshells are milky white, and there is no fishy smell when eaten raw. The taste is a pure, rich milky aroma with a subtle nutty aftertaste...]

Price: 8 each

[Convenient Canned Mackerel: The mackerel canned food is a favorite of the dormitory supervisor at Totsuki Culinary Academy. It is made from mackerel caught during their winter migration season, when the fish are plump and have a very high fat content.]

Price: 40 each / 200g

There are also onions, rice, citrus vinegar, and squid tentacles underneath, but because each serving contains very small amounts of these ingredients, the price is not expensive.

Xu Zhou glanced at the total price and the listed price.

[Fantasy ingredient price for the Quick Mackerel Burger Meal Recipe: 65, 50 servings available]

[Price Reference: 89]

[Note: Fantasy ingredients and recipes are derived from Wish Points. If their monetary value is too high, the balance will be disrupted if customers spend more money than their value is realized, thus negating the pure Wish Points gained.]

"To offset the wish value, I wonder what it would be like to have a negative wish value."

Xu Zhou rejected this idea in an instant.

Don't be reckless, take steady and solid steps.

He realized that the higher the wish value of a recipe, the easier it is to make money.

His gaze fell on the number of 50 portions, and he was somewhat surprised.

"You can buy fifty servings of simple meals at the start? As expected... there's a difference between the fantasy ingredients in simple meals and the expensive fantasy ingredients."

When Xu Zhou thought about the food preparation function of the training room, he spent money to buy fifty servings of mackerel burger patties.

After the purchase, the ingredients appeared in the refrigerator in the training room.

As soon as Xu Zhou opened the refrigerator, he saw the neatly arranged ingredients inside.

He looked at the huge pile of ingredients, then at the little red-haired guy who was about to leave, and suddenly spoke up: "Didn't you want to participate in the food battle?"

"!"

In a flash, the little redhead turned his head, his eyes lighting up: "Xu Zhou! You're willing to have a food battle with me?"

Chapter 42 Let's have a contest to see who can fry their hamburger patties the fastest!

When Little Red Hair heard Xu Zhou's words, a fire instantly ignited in his heart.

He clasped his hands together, extremely excited: "How about a competition! Shall we have a thoroughly enjoyable food war?"

"Row."

Xu Zhou paused for a moment, then said, "Let's see who can fry their hamburger patties the fastest."

"?"

"I have fifty portions of ingredients here. When the ingredients run out, whoever fries their hamburger patties the fastest and best wins."

Xu Zhou remained serious, feeling no guilt whatsoever for using the little red-haired boy to cook for him.

How can this not be considered a food battle?

If a food war is judged solely on taste, why isn't a food war judged solely on speed?

Little Red Hair scratched his head, stared at the pile of ingredients for a long time without saying a word.

Xu Zhou was afraid that he would think she was using him, so she decided to be honest with him.

"Actually, I'm just doing this by myself..." Boring.

"Yes, yes."

Little Red Hair hesitated, "But you bought all these ingredients, and the two of us can't finish fifty servings."

Xu Zhou: "..."

So you spent so much time thinking about it just because you were afraid of wasting these fifty portions of ingredients?

Xu Zhou didn't hide anything from him and told him that he planned to make these fifty portions into a set meal and sell it for money.

After saying that, Little Red Hair had no more reservations: "Alright! Let's have a food war! Let's see who can cook the fastest!"

"start!"

As soon as Xu Zhou finished speaking, the two stopped talking and instead prepared food in the training room using ingredients that Xu Zhou had bought with his own money.

Chop the vegetables, drain the water from the mackerel, mix the flour, and fry the hamburgers.

At first, Xu Zhou's speed couldn't keep up with Xiao Hongmao's, but he got faster and faster as he did it, and his proficiency increased.

One.

two.

ten.

Twenty-five.

When they reached twenty-five, they heard Little Red Hair's regretful voice: "A tie..."

"OK then."

After a brief farewell, Little Red Hair left the training room.

After arranging the fifty fried hamburger patties on the table and steaming rice for fifty people, Xu Zhou finally came out of the training room.

...

Less than a minute had passed since I came out of the training room.

Xu Zhou tried to take out a hamburger patty from the training room, only to find that it was still piping hot.

"good…"

"It really can be used for food preparation."

"If that's the case, then all the light meals can be prepared in advance."

The ingredients used in the casual meal are inexpensive, and the dishes are all simple. The hamburger patties are fried in advance, and all you need to do is pour the gravy on them on the spot.

Seeing that it was still early, Xu Zhou went to the supermarket and bought a large iron pot, the same kind used for serving soup in the cafeteria.

After making the purchases, Xu Zhou then added the fifth dish to his shop: [Fast-cooked hamburger steak combo] [Price: 89]

The new dishes were served.

My phone immediately vibrated.

It was a message sent from the group chat.

[Xu Kai: I've bookmarked Xiao Laoban's shop, and the app just notified me that they have new dishes!]

[Xu Kai: This dish is actually a set meal, and it's only 89 yuan! Isn't that too cheap?]

Other customers who had bookmarked Xu Zhou's shop also spoke up one after another.

[CaiCai: Ah, this hamburger steak combo is the one from episode 5, right?! I'm coming right now! Boss, how many do you make a day?]

Xu Zhou was very patient with his regular customers, after all, they had provided a lot of prayer points, so he replied:

[Xu Zhou: Fifty servings per day for now.]

Fifty servings!

Upon hearing this, Cai Cai was extremely excited and immediately turned to her roommates in the dormitory to ask, "Are you going or not? I'll take you guys out for a set meal today."

My roommate obviously knew which store it was.

However, they ran out of living expenses for the month, and seeing the price of 12,800 yuan per serving, they hesitated.

Du Liu, who was playing a game, sighed: "The last group-buying deal I made was beyond my budget. If I only buy one group-buying deal a day, I won't even have enough to eat..."

"Forget it, I think I'll pass."

"That restaurant is really delicious, but unfortunately I can't afford it."

Thinking about this, Du Liu lost all interest in playing games and felt extremely upset.

What could be more upsetting than not being able to afford the food you love?

But the next second, Cai Cai's tone became excited.

"A new dish has been introduced!"

"Fifty servings a day!"

"It's a simple meal, only eighty-nine yuan a serving!"

If this price of 89 were placed at another stir-fry restaurant near a school, I would definitely complain that it's too expensive.

But for someone like Xu Zhou, who sells a single dish of beef for 12,800 yuan... that's incredibly cheap!

"go!"

Du Liu even stopped playing games and sprang up from her chair: "Let's go now."

...

the other side.

The car was parked on the side of the road.

After Jiang Mingzhu got out of the car, she felt uneasy as she looked at the [Yizhou Izakaya] not far away.

I brought him to this restaurant without telling Grandpa. I hope Grandpa won't be angry.

"arrive."

Jiang Mingzhu nervously opened the car door: "Grandpa, let's get out of the car."

"it is good."