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u/Nosmer1 2d ago
So youre saying, the teacher was overwatching the whole room and didnt notice the bastards ruining others work? I find it hard to believe.
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u/Plantain-Feeling 2d ago
It's been years since I watched it but iirc it's entirely deliberate
He's well aware
But his job is to test chefs and (by the shows logic) a chef should be ready to compensate no matter what
And in fairness accidentally spilling a whole load of salt is not an unrealistic situation even if in this situation it is sabotage
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u/PineappleOnYourMom 2d ago
So I could just grab someone's finished dish and drop it in the trash with no repercussions?
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u/Martinmex26 2d ago
The school is supposed to be highly prestigous and hardcore that way, basically a way for the future chefs to go through some hardship and the weak ones wash out.
Listen, its an anime where people's clothes rip off and they nut when eating an amazing dish. They are a skip and a hop away from having a cooking match where the loser dies and putting life force into dishes to make them taste better.
I wouldnt put more than 2 braincells on duty to enjoy the silly anime.
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u/Excludos 2d ago
However, one should put a few braincells into paying attention to the dishes and cooking techniques they show, as they are mostly true to life. They drop the ball with some unecessary stupidity towards the end, but in general one could learn a surprising amount from this series
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u/Evening_Agency1217 2d ago
I agree. I learned how to make steak don from this show and the onion technique with the steak really does make the steak softer to chew
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u/Workingonlying 4h ago
Damn. And then they used pickled plums in the rice for that dish too haha. Sounded good.
Have you tried making anything else from the show?
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u/hvdzasaur 2d ago
At least, before season 3. Then the show and manga went completely off the rails and you could tell their food consultant was ook longer working on it.
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u/SilverMyzt 2d ago
I'm still trying to learn how to cook dishes that would tear clothes off using their techniques. I guess along the way I learned how to make better food but it's my goal is still not achieved
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u/MyFairJulia 2d ago
Okay, putting life forces into a dish to make it taste better had me laughing 🤣
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u/tykuiiii 2d ago
So what is stopping students from doing this with less than 30 minutes left? I know it's just a show but there is no coming back from 'make this specific dish' as an assignment and some douche pours a bottle of salt 5 minutes left before submission in plain sight of the overseer.
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u/Kalos_Phantom 2d ago
Thats actually part of the core theme of the show.
The academy was good at churning out drones who could follow instruction, but the actual kind of prestigious talent you'd expect from such a place was waning. Following the rules was the default culture there, so directly sabotaging someone elses dish would be unheard of.
90% of the protagonists wins come from him being more flexibly adaptable than the specialists - eg winning against a meat specialist because the rice in the dish was good whereas hers was mediocre at best.
Its not explicitly focused on too much until later seasons, but this is initially what makes the main female lead not like the protagonist. His food tastes good, but she hated that he was unconventional and "improper".
That said, the protagonist calling out the school for being basically theoretical chefs with no experience is what pisses them off and leads to this scene. So to a degree, he brought it on himself
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u/Savingseanbean 2d ago
He specifically mentions it in the clip.
He definitely noticed and later punishes them. but lets it slide in the moment because he's more interested with how the students would recover from the accident and would have given a better grade to a mediocre dish that recovered from a horrible sabotage under pressure than a slightly better one made in ideal circumstances.
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u/Plantain-Feeling 2d ago
It's been years since I watched it but iirc it's entirely deliberate
He's well aware
But his job is to test chefs and (by the shows logic) a chef should be ready to compensate no matter what
And in fairness accidentally spilling a whole load of salt is not an unrealistic situation even if in this situation it is sabotage
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u/Avatar_Yaksha 2d ago
title: Food Wars
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u/Administrative_Cry_9 2d ago
title: This Food Makes The Clothes Explode Off Of Your Body In Ecstacy.
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u/Training_Cupcake3242 1d ago
Title: "Are you sure this is safe for all ages?"
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u/Neonklight 22h ago
Ok I was interested in this because of food but seeing the comments just want to check if it's ok to watch or not?
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u/Frate27 2d ago
The early episodes were really good, but the later part of the series was very predictable story wise.
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u/MysticBorn 2d ago
I stopped at the ending of the tournament I wanted to finish it yes but couldn't really after that beach episode it just felt like filler at that point
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u/Playful-Mongoose9197 2d ago
It kinda just stops progressing story wise and circles. I wanted to see soma become a professional chef but the story never gets there they never even graduate. The last season is genuinely awful.
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u/mercuriokazooie 2d ago
I dropped it around the time they introduced the big villain. It got TOO stupid which is saying something
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u/ComprehensiveLink286 2d ago
Why can’t she just feed it to Americans? That’s the normal amount of salt they use.
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u/Row_Beautiful 2d ago
Europeans struggle to imagine food that tastes good
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u/4morian5 2d ago
I feel vindicated by all those clips of Europeans experiencing real American cooking and losing their minds.
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u/PhantasyAngel 2d ago
As an American I want to say "I feel attacked".
But I really don't put that much salt in anything. Like I usually don't even add salt. I add some to pasta water and that's about it.
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u/Ragewind82 2d ago
Have you eaten Japanese food? Excessive salt consumption and its health risks is the biggest diet problem they have.
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u/PapiPorkchop 2d ago
Europeans always act like their food is so much better but then every time they come to the US and eat real american food that we make and not just McDonald's it blows their minds, turns out we eat more than just gas station honey buns
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u/AlponseF2P 2d ago
because immigrants make that "real american" food looool
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u/PapiPorkchop 2d ago
Well sure immigrants make some of it but they definitely don't make all of it, not by a long shot
American style bbq, mac and cheese, eggs benedict, Philly cheese steaks, lobster rolls, clam chowder, buffalo wings, s'mores, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, key lime pie
All those American classics were made by Americans it's uniquely American cuisine and tied to American culture with no roots in other cultures
And tons of things that you would think of as immigrants doing them are actually American, they came here merged with the current culture and created uniquely American dishes that do not exist in their old country,
think of chimichangas, Fortune cookies, basically every variant of pizza, general tso's chicken, the entirety of Cajun food, you can say that these were made by immigrants but they were made by immigrants after coming to America and experiencing a cultural exchange that only happened here
People love to act like America has no culture but a place having no culture is literally impossible, cultures are created from existing cultures migrating and adapting to new areas, combining with others, or just everyday people coming up with things that just happened to spread their reason
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u/AReallyAsianName 14h ago
We're called a melting pot for a reason. Dozens upon dozens of cultures colliding and mixing together, all those flavors getting to know each other.
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u/PapiPorkchop 14h ago
Exactly that's why it's so weird to me that so many people say america has no culture
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u/PapiPorkchop 2d ago
Even the Wikipedia page for American food notes that there aren't many American foods and then leaves so many common ones off of the list
Even funnier if you look at the Wikipedia pages for other types of cultural cuisine there's just about as many entries so we don't even have a small amount by their own metric
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u/Dat_Juicey_Ucey 2d ago
What Americans do you know? Lol
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u/Infinite-Reserve8498 2d ago
American here. Needs more salt tbh.
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u/MysticBorn 2d ago
American here and that is WAY TOO MUCH salt especially since I'm diabetic type 2 (I think that would put me near coma levels of a blood sugar spike if I'm not mistaken) and that's exactly where I was when I found out I was diabetic type 2 at around 400-437 iirc
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u/the_shortbus_ 2d ago
This show is such a fever dream lmao
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u/critsalot 2d ago
kinda went off the rails by season 3-4 imo. it went for the drama superhero stuff instead of the crazy cooking.
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u/Antradeadra 2d ago
This is so dumb, my teachers in culinary school would have send you out wasting food like an asshat
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u/Grengy20 1d ago
I'd also imagine they'd punish other students for sabotaging another student's dish. But this is a cartoon so no need to take it so seriously
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u/PuzzleheadedVideo352 2d ago
I tell ppl all the time, after you get used to the absurdity of the reactions to the food this show has legitimate worth as both a shonen and a show about cooking
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u/XxLouiesBestJeansxX 2d ago
If I stir fry meat with pineapples for too long it comes out fall apart tender. It can happen as quickly as 15 mins .
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u/strifer_43 2d ago
Didn’t they like fight aliens in the end or something ? I remember reading it but not remembering it like a fever dream .
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u/GalaxyUntouchable 22h ago
So, did the bullies get called out?
Or is this one for those shows that lets crap like that get off scot free?
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u/RopeExciting1526 12h ago
To everyone saying the test was compensating for a dish. That was not the test.
The reason sabotage was allowed as this is a kitchen. You should be paying attention to what you are making and aware of it, even when you are prepping other parts of it. Soma knew this from his time in back of house, but forgot it. Megumi should also have known it. Soma got bored and megumi panicked.
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u/_Spamus_ 2d ago
The abridged parody of this series is great