"Like this, can you just squeeze the edges?"

Dome uses her fingers to press the dough slightly on the edge of the trimmed baking pan so that the dough is slightly higher.

"Well done. Because the dough shrinks when baking, make it slightly higher than the pan and the pie will be the same height as the pan. Now pour in the finished filling, put it in the oven and set the time, and you're done. ”

Said the tall girl in a maid outfit.

Although the Umihara family has been employing students who are engaged in housekeeping as a long-term partner of Tokiwadai, this person even has the confidence not to take the vast majority of Tokiwadai students seriously.

She is a year older than Dome and is known for her cooking in the housekeeping. If it's legendary, she's not even under the dome.

There is only one reason that makes her legendary: in May this year, she passed the three-star chef rating, becoming the youngest three-star chef in history, improving the world record by more than a decade. It was also hailed as a record that could never be broken again.

It is said that a well-known restaurant has long sent her invitations, but she seems to have insisted on her keen home economics studies and refused all invitations. So in this field, she can definitely be said to be a super genius.

Like many students in the school city,She's also doing a part-time job herself.,And the content of her part-time job is also a legend.。

In fact,School City has a set age for students to work part-time.。 However, as with all regulations, since there are regulations, there are naturally ways to circumvent them. In fact, the part-time job of the chaotic girl at the Kaihara family is in the name of Tokiwadai cooperation. Personally, there are more such things, such as Mitsuki Umihara who gets paid for cutting gems in his own home.

The most exaggerated and flamboyant in this regard is probably her.

The concept of a general part-time job is to work for others, and the content of her part-time job is to directly pull a ticket for someone to open a restaurant in the name of messy housekeeping! And although her restaurant has only been open for two years, it has passed the two-star rating this year, and now it is a well-known high-end restaurant in the school city.

Such a character, of course, is not given in vain. Since she nodded at the craftsmanship of the dome, it naturally meant that it passed smoothly.

After putting the pie in the oven and setting the time, Dome was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

She spent the whole morning in the kitchen, except for basic etiquette practice. To her dismay, this situation is obviously going to continue.

Because in the voting for the implementation project of this year's Tokiwadai Midsummer Festival, she was inexplicably selected as the head chef of the cooking project.

For many years, this has been one of the most respected positions in the Midsummer Festival. At the Midsummer Festival, all of the dishes made by Tokiwadai students will be open to the public in the form of a student cafeteria, so you can imagine what a terrible amount of work it is to be a chef. And even if it's tired, this position is quite unflattering. If you do a good job and have a high evaluation, then it is naturally nothing. But if it is done badly, even if it just does not meet the standard expected by the guests, it will drag all the students involved in the kitchen work into the water.

This is the most painful and tiring errand in the whole summer festival. Dome himself never thought that he would have such a drudgery this year.

According to the findings of Kuroko Shirai, who always conducts some inexplicable investigations, there are basically two reasons why she was voted for this time.

One of them is, "Since there are a lot of students working in the Kaihara family, then she should be able to do some of it." ”

The second is that "instead of letting someone who is not at ease do it, it is better to simply choose her." Anyway, she did a good job. ”

These two reasons are simply more inexplicable than the other.

At this time, Dome realized that at some point, the students of Tokiwadai began to see themselves as some kind of special talent who could do anything. This excessive trust made her feel a wave of unnecessary pressure.

Objectively speaking, Tokiwadai's teaching goal has never been to train a young lady in a greenhouse. With the exception of some freshmen, most of the students are able to take good care of themselves. Naturally, cuisine is also in the ranks.

So when it comes to cooking and the like, she really can't say that she is not good at it. In fact, the tall maid who directs her today is "okay" for her craft, which she uses to evaluate most chefs' craft, is "not much better than trash".

However, Dome is not a talent who specializes in cooking after all, and the only dishes she really does well are those few dishes. Of course, it's okay to cook your own food on weekdays, but to talk about being a chef is just nonsense.

If it were someone else, it would probably be simply pushed away, or just be fooled around. The problem is that, in the words of Mitsuki Umihara, she has never been very good at rejecting people. And what's even more troublesome is that she is still a more serious person.

As a result, she ran to ask the student who was the best at cooking to teach her how to cook.

It's also a very special thing. For such a top chef, it would be impossible for her to teach others. However, the Dome was the only exception.

Because two years ago, she had a part-time job at the Kaihara family, and during this time, she received a lot of help from the dome. She rose from LV.2 to LV.3 that year, thanks to the formula provided by Dona, who had not yet entered Tokiwadai.

But looking back now, I'm afraid it's hard to say that it was the right choice. At least it was only one morning, and Dome felt like she was tired to death.

"Well, cooking by yourself is fun, but if you are forced to learn, you will only be physically and mentally exhausted. Even for those who are very passionate about it, this process is inevitable. ”

This sentence is fully agreed upon. But......

"Please don't play with my hair, it's really bothering." She said softly, reaching out and pushing away the hands behind her that were holding her long hair. "If you want to say tired, it's not because of so many of your compulsions."

"Of course, as my apprentice, how can I make do with it? I also have to worry about my reputation. ”

"I don't remember when I worshipped you as a teacher......"

Dome sighed softly and muttered softly.

She only planned to come over this time to receive some relevant training, and never intended to learn from a teacher. I don't know why the other party seems to be planning to bite the bullet. This is also a reason for her trouble.

In fact, it was the dome that didn't understand the meaning behind the other party's actions. If anyone who learns cooking knows that she actually thinks like this, I'm afraid that his face will immediately turn blue.

At this point, the dome is indeed ignorant. She didn't know how difficult it was to be accepted as a disciple by a three-star chef, which is the dream of almost all chefs who want to achieve something.

The tall maid smiled helplessly. She knew it was due to the difference in perception between the two sides.

Chefs and scientists, unlike scientists, are completely secretive about their results. The kitchen of the top chef was almost closed to the outside world, and even when she was not so famous, she forbade outsiders from entering and leaving the kitchen except for those she approved during her part-time job at the Kaihara family. Even the father of the Umihara siblings never entered her workplace.

Mitsuki Kaihara was very clear about this, but Dome didn't know anything about it at all.

She didn't even understand what it meant to go to a restaurant and ask a top chef to teach her cooking skills.

If you do this for ordinary people, you will definitely be beaten out with a mess, and everyone in the kitchen has no doubt about this. So in fact, everyone actually sees Dome as the only disciple of the tall maid, which is the real reason why the staff in the restaurant are so friendly to her.

But the funny thing is that Dome himself doesn't know anything about it.

Although the tall maid liked this well-mannered, intelligent and diligent young lady, it was inevitable that she would be a little angry about her ignorance in some respects.

"You, come here and show me the time." The more she thought about it, the more she pointed to a messy student in the kitchen, and then she turned to the area where the meat was handled. "Yun Chuan, get me a steak and beef kidney!"

As she spoke, she brought some cleaned oysters from the chef who was making the seafood soup.

"I've rested enough, and I'm going to make a special dish. You ready? ”

"Yes, yes."

Dome immediately straightened up in response.

She has never slacked off in the process of learning, and the same is true of cooking. Even if the rest time is so short, she will not want to be lazy. Whatever she does, she gives it her all.

Deliberately compressing the rest time also did not affect her mood, which made the tall maid even more unhappy.

She was determined to shake the Dome.

Behind her, who had ignited her evil fighting spirit, a girl with long black curly hair, dressed in clothes that honestly did not conform to the rules of the kitchen, and held a special steel knife spun her body in a unique movement. After turning half a circle slightly, he suddenly slashed at a large piece of beef more than one person high.

"Drink!"

With an astonishing shout, the beef that even adult men may not have the strength to cut was cut into several large pieces in several of her movements.

Yun Chuan skillfully selected a few pieces from them and threw them over.

Even with her back to her, the tall maid easily caught it with a basket as if she had eyes on the back of her head.

Oysters, steak, kidney. What is this cooking?

Dono couldn't think of anything "special" about the dishes made from these ingredients.

"Next, let's make pudding!"

The tall maid said aloud as she declared something.

"Do you want to prepare materials?"

Dome asked.

"Isn't it ready?" The tall maid held the basket in her hand, "I told you that this is a very special dish. What should I give it a name? ”

She looked up and thought as if she were serious.

"By the way, let's call the sirloin steak oyster pudding."

The whole kitchen fell silent in an instant.

The man who was washing the vegetables accidentally smashed the metal mesh pocket against the edge of the sink, and was asked to look at the oven and looked up in a daze. Even Yunchuan also swung his knife into the air because of a mistake in his action, and the knife flew out of his hand and nailed it to the door panel with a "bang". Luckily, no one came in through the door.

Dome tilted her head, blinking her beautiful two-color pupils. She has always been confident in her ability to understand. But now, she suspects that her understanding has gone awry.

Steak, sirloin, oysters...... Pudding?

How did these terms come together? Isn't this really a mess?

(Excellent!) Finally see her shaken! It's so cute. ）

The tall maid clenched her fists.

However, the ill-intentioned intentions did not affect her quality as a top chef.

"Yunchuan, the cherry pie is ready, you take it out. By the way, I told the guest that this is the apprentice's practice and will be given away for free. You can decide who you want to choose. ”

As soon as the words fell, the oven beep sounded. Even the person in charge of watching the oven is not so accurate, what an incredible computing power.

"Wait a minute, why me? I'm not a waitress, and I'm ......."

Yun Chuan protested. But the other party only used one sentence to block back the gushing complaints she had prepared.

"Why don't I charge you for the repair of the door?"

In desperation, she took the baking tray out of the oven and brought it out of the kitchen herself.

She definitely didn't expect that as soon as she walked into the restaurant, she saw someone who couldn't be more familiar.

In this piece of dining, there is a table that is special. The floor around it is surrounded by a circular border finished with metal, as if to exclude the table alone.

In fact, in the restaurant, this table is forbidden.

A high school student with her long hair combed back and tied up with a headband, wearing a school uniform that didn't match the cafeteria, sat at a table that was forbidden for some reason.

"Yo, sister. Is it fun to work part-time? ”

She curled the corners of her mouth and said teasingly.