Isekai Nonbiri Sozai Saishu Seikatsu - Ch. 9

[MangaDex]

 

[didien]

Lol stay fluffy.

 

[Otong777]

Not getting moongrass but got something that even more rare than it?

 

[unnamederror]

no explanation huh

 

[endo54]

yeah right. cooking in wilderness without a care for monster sniffing it out.

 

[sarusa]

Okay, I know of all the things to complain about not being believable in a fantasy manga this is weird, but... as someone who can cook, there is no way that bacon worked.

Those are about 2 inch thick slabs. If you're cooking 1/8th inch strips, i.e., thick cut bacon 1/16th the thickness of these, those take 15-20 minutes. If you cook a 2 inch steak and you're looking for medium rare, that takes about 20 minutes in the oven or over a grill. But you don't want your bacon medium rare. And the top of a frying pan (the air) is much cooler than at the bottom if you're not using a lid. You're just not getting those eggs done if you're just 'quickly cooking a side dish'.

Basically, the only way he was getting that bacon done was to get the pan hot, add the bacon, cook it about 20 minutes with a lid on, flip it over (to even out the cooking), cook another 20 minutes with the lid on (add the eggs 5 minutes before it's done), and then for gawd's sake give your meat a rest before you actually eat it! And by that time your soup is cold.

Okay, sorry, cooking rant off!

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

And by that time your soup is cold.

I actually thought of all that too, but the simple solution is to eat the soup as a starter while letting your bacon cook.

On another note, is it me or is every single isekai now obsessed with showing just how much the MC loves eating? Don't get me wrong, I love the trend, but it seems like every second chapter of pretty much every isekai is dedicated to the prep, cooking, and eating of a meal, all while we're given over the top description of everything. It gets a little silly when it's something so stupidly simple, like... oh I don't know, bacon and eggs.

It might be shocking to people for me to say this, especially about something in the isekai genre (a beacon of originality and creativity in the manga industry, I know), but I think this foodie trope might be overdone (haha).

 

[GipoScribantino]

On another note, is it me or is every single isekai now obsessed with showing just how much the MC loves eating?

A lot of the earliest isekai (think 2018-2020) focused on food for one reason or another. Usually it was filler content to make chapters of the web novel longer (because otherwise the chapter wouldn't have enough content), while in other cases it was the author being garbage (as I read in a comment section once: "the story has become the author just writing what he would like to eat that day.").
Due to its over-representation, it became a trope of the "isekai" genre in 2023 and authors and editors always add it to make sure expectations are met.

 

[Gurgling]

Aww the dude waited for him. Wholesome af

 

[sarusa]

On another note, is it me or is every single isekai now obsessed with showing just how much the MC loves eating?

It's not just Isekai either - some of my wholesome lesbian romcoms, BAM cooking recipe out of nowhere. Traveling slice of life manga, BAM food porn out of nowhere time (though at least it's appropriate there). Post-apocalyptic survival... BAM cooking chapter! Zombie sruvival manga? Yes, food! There's even a drama about a totally broken family (by Japanese standards, I think they're fine) where the oldest brother was adopted because his mother was a total 'ho, the dad is dead, the mother has cancer, then they run into another younger brother the 'ho mother had... and of course all of this comes with a cooking lesson every chapter. (Gin no Spoon, BTW, and it's way more wholesome than it sounds).

It's definitely everywhere way more than it used to be - you used to have your SRS 'cooking manga' like Oishinbo and Cooking Papa, then some random shounen stuff like Yakitate Japan, Iron Wok Jan, Cooking Master Boy, Shoukugeki no Soma (Food Wars), Toriko... but they were all dedicated to cooking and food. Now it's just in any random manga.

I think it's mostly just because Japanese love food so much that everyone knows it's a cheap and popular way to pad things... and Isekai manga are kings of cheap padding. Like GipoScribantino said, Isekai was kind of leading the way there. But since Campfire Cooking was such a hit, now Isekai 'has' to have it since they all copy what sells. (I swear Isekai is overall less varied than actual porn.)

 

[welcome2atlantis]

Main quest: failed.
Side quests: finished.
This guy lacked focus, but he had great luck.

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

Ah yes the glorious "skip 11 pages" chapter.