Sauce so good you could eat it with a shoe sole.

Mingmei decided to take that as a compliment about how good her bento boxes were.

The morning consisted of three classes: Mu Chen, Lu Gui, and Zhen Hu. Coincidentally, all three had her sauces, and today they all chose to test the sauce's effect.

Besides using the sauce, Lu Gui also switched to a new ingredient. The meat of the unknown insect B should be better than A.

Since it was everyone's first time cooking, Mingmei never smelled the strange odor that wafted from the room yesterday.

However, by the end of the classes, Mingmei could tell that the others' expressions still weren't good.

Before she could ask, she saw the lunchbox in Lu Gui's hand, golden and shiny, filled with what seemed to be fried food.

As Lu Gui left, the God of Cooking NPC still spat out a comment.

"Fried like a stick, what a waste of the seasoning packet!"

Mingmei: "..."

Well, here was another dish that didn't live up to the sauce.

But to Mingmei's surprise, the one who brought joy to the God of Cooking was actually the last one in the morning, Zhen Hu.

Mingmei had originally thought his performance would be much worse than the other two, but in the end, the dish Zhen Hu made finally made the corners of the God of Cooking's mouth, which had been downturned, start to lift.

It was a pity, just a little bit short, and he still hadn't passed.

That was what the God of Cooking told Zhen Hu to his face when noon ended, which Mingmei also overheard.

Just a little bit short.

Afterward, the God of Cooking patted him on the shoulder and said something to him in a voice only Zhen Hu could hear.

Later, when it was lunchtime, all the players showed up, and Mingmei also came to join in the fun.

The three players from the morning had reheated their food and placed it in the center of the table.

"Try some."

After Mu Chen finished speaking, almost everyone began to taste them in turn.

Sure enough, Mingmei understood what the God of Cooking meant after tasting them.

The sauce was indeed too delicious, and it only highlighted the flaws in the ingredients they made.

The meat Mu Chen made was too tough and hard to chew.

Lu Gui's was too hard, the meat strips were too thick, fried until the outside was hard and charred, but the inside was still raw, making the texture unpleasant.

Also, Mingmei wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but it seemed like Lu Gui had added starch or something to the meat strips, and it didn't have the texture of pure meat.

She didn't know why he would risk doing that.

In comparison to the previous two, the one Zhen Hu made was particularly delicious.

"Dude, you didn't pass with this?"

Zhen Po couldn't believe it after eating the dish Zhen Hu made, and even the others nodded in agreement. This level wasn't good enough?

"The teacher said the sauce was really delicious when added, but the meat still needs to be improved further."

Zhen Hu smiled modestly.

"Then... how did you manage to make your meat chewable?"

Mu Chen was surprised by the result Zhen Hu achieved with the sauce and ingredients.

He really couldn't grasp the heat.

Yesterday, he only remembered knife skills, and he hadn't had time to train on how to cook the meat just right.

"Because the meat slices are too easy to cook, I just run them through boiling water."

Zhen Hu didn't hide anything, but the God of Cooking had given him new ideas in today's class, so he wasn't stingy about sharing the original method.

"It's really that easy to cook?"

Yuan Fang, the number two person who had difficulty cooking meat, had even less control over the heat than Mu Chen, and wished he could just boil it until it melted.

Otherwise, the cooking special effects that were comparable to Snow White's stepmother boiling a poisoned apple wouldn't have appeared yesterday.

Seeing that Yuan Fang still didn't believe it, Zhen Hu replied directly, "Cut it into thin slices, try it a few more times yourself, no more than ten seconds."

Lu Xiaoyao, who still couldn't cut thin slices, had now turned her hopes to her older brother: "Brother, what do you think about cooking with insect B meat?"

"How do you feel about it after tasting it?"

"Maybe you didn't make it well, that seasoning packet is really fragrant!"

Lu Gui: "..."

Under the curious gazes of the others, Lu Gui also admitted: "The meat of this insect B doesn't have any tendons or membranes, so it's very easy to handle."

"Really?!"

Before Lu Xiaoyao could get excited, Lu Gui immediately poured cold water on her: "But its meat is very loose, close to a mushy state, not suitable for boiling or frying. I did add some egg whites and starch to deep-fry the meat strips, but the teacher said that the heat of the fried meat strips was wrong, and because I added other things, the original meat flavor was also covered up, making it taste a bit distorted."

"Ah?"

Hearing what Lu Gui said, Lu Xiaoyao's heart broke.

Both types of meat had their advantages and disadvantages.

The key was that the disadvantages of both types of meat were difficult for Lu Xiaoyao to overcome.

Everyone ate lunch with their own thoughts, then those who had classes went to class, those who had post-class practice practiced, and those who guarded the gate continued to guard the gate.

Mingmei: _(：3」∠)_

However, the situation in the afternoon was much worse than in the morning.

All afternoon, the clip on her nose never came off.

She looked at the sky speechlessly, thinking that the God of Cooking was going to be forced to become a black-hearted person again today.

"Indeed, they still need pressure."

Just as Mingmei was looking up at the sky, the God of Cooking came out after class and stood next to Mingmei, saying this.

"What pressure?"

Mingmei looked at him in confusion.

"The pressure of death."

Mingmei: "It's not that serious, it's not that serious. Actually, I think..."

"No, I don't want you to think..."

"No, I don't want you to think either."

Seeing that he interrupted her, Mingmei also interrupted the NPC who was wearing her dad's face in the game without any politeness.

"Focusing on teaching students how to cook is the right way. Look, wasn't the student from this morning taught well by you?"

When Mingmei mentioned Zhen Hu, she saw that his eyebrows and eyes did indeed relax.

"What you said makes sense." The God of Cooking listened to Mingmei's words, lost in thought.

Seeing him like this, Mingmei also breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that he wouldn't go to extremes.

But the next day, after Mingmei heard the new rules that the God of Cooking had changed, she just wanted to shout, "Are you sick in the head!"

···

"Starting today, all your cooking classes will be uniformly arranged in the afternoon, and the food you make will be assessed by me. Those who meet the standards will graduate directly. Those who don't meet the standards will be ranked according to their scores from highest to lowest, and this order will be the order in which you choose your dinner that day."

"As a benefit, dinner will be made by me personally. However, one of them contains a deadly poison that will kill you with one bite."

Players: ?????

Mingmei: ???

Did what she said yesterday go to waste?

"You're going to poison us to death!"

Lu Xiaoyao, who was still showering the God of Cooking with compliments the past two days, immediately exploded when she heard such a devilish rule today.

"Yes, I won't keep anyone here who doesn't learn anything well and ruins my reputation."

The God of Cooking's eyes changed, and he cast a sinister gaze around the crowd, finally saying, "Either graduate or have an accident, the choice is yours!"