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Chapter 222 - # A Guide to Earth-Style Cooking 2. Mayonnaise

So it was decided that Yuri would teach Mand how to make mayonnaise, but in fact, there was another important problem besides the raw eggs, the mixing.

His mother in his previous life had gone through a phase of making homemade mayonnaise, so he remembered how to do it just from watching. Or rather, it wasn't that difficult to begin with. The basics were to take egg yolk, or whole eggs are mainstream in America, and a certain manufacturer in Japan uses them too, add vinegar, water, salt, pepper, and to taste, mustard, honey, or lemon juice, and mix well. The next step was just to slowly add cooking oil while continuing to mix. However... this mixing process, without a hand mixer, was quite a bit of heavy labor. When he had visited Laurenzen last year and gotten some eggs, he had tried making mayonnaise after returning to the village... and even with Yuri's stats, it was a pretty tedious task until he got used to it. Let alone for an ordinary person... it wasn't hard to imagine. In practice...

"I see... This is quite a bit of work."

"It is, isn't it..."

"Well, I guess I can just have the apprentices do it."

Considering Eto's hardship, Yuri silently made the sign of the cross in his heart. Was there anything he could do to help?

"...If we just had a hand mixer, there'd be no problem..."

"A hand... what's that?"

Mand's sharp ears seemed to have caught the words Yuri had muttered to himself.

"Uh, um... it's a... magic tool for mixing ingredients."

Unable to say something like "kitchen appliance," Yuri tried to explain it in a way that fit this world's circumstances, but...

"A magic tool!? Just for mixing ingredients!?"

He had not recognized the difference between the rate of home appliance ownership in Japan in his previous life and the prevalence of magic tools in this world.

"Um... the initial investment is large, but I think it... saves time and labor?"

He couldn't just come out and talk about the situation in Japan in his previous life, and before that, there was a possibility that the values placed on labor and time were different in this world. Consequently, Yuri's words couldn't help but lack confidence.

"Rotational motion is useful for all sorts of things, though..."

"Well... I can see how it would be useful, but..."

In fact, there was a huge difference in the image of the tool that each of them had in mind.

Yuri was imagining the hand mixers that were common on 21st-century Earth, and he was thinking that if they could solve the sealing problem, it could be applied to blenders, food processors, and by extension, even washing machines and ship's propellers. It was indeed a technology with a wide range of applications.

On the other hand, what Mand was imagining was a completely different type of device. There were magic tools for mixing in this world, but they were simply shaped like a bowl. The mixing magic was inscribed on the bowl itself, and the design was such that it would mix whatever was put inside. From this, the idea of pulverizing ingredients with a cutter, like a blender, food processor, or hand blender, would never emerge. It was only natural that he couldn't see the kind of development Yuri was dreaming of.

Although their mental images were different, they both agreed that they would have to consult Adon about any magic tool, so their opinions were aligned.