Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 1

Another wimp protagonist story. I’ve finished 2.5 volumes and I don’t understand why this series is highly rated. To each their own, but the story has noting to offer other than skippable food recipes which is close to 55% of the content.

Starts off a little slow, gets better as mc starts to explore more. Lots of simple descriptions of preparing and cooking food though.

Before I dive into the problems, I’ll say this; I like the plot and characters in this story. The dialogue seems alright; perhaps more justice could have been done with the translation. The way the main character is smart without being on the level of a genius makes his common-sensical decisions regarding the course of his adventure fun to read about. And while the way he seems to have fallen *ss-backwards into much of his OP-ness, it’s played up in a comedic way that emphasizes it as a double-edged sword as much as anything else. That’s where the positives end. The prose is bland milquetoast in how it robotically states what’s happening. Some of the side characters have all the personality of cardboard cutouts of fantasy stereotypes, and the worst offenders - the adventuring party Mukohda first joins up with - even get a bonus chapter that basically just recaps their time in his story while revealing basically no new information. Finally, the execution of the food aspect itself is extremely basic by the standards of stories with cuisine at its focus; I frequently found myself asking “wait, that’s all?” Shaking Company X’s special sauce on monster meat and serving staple Japanese side-dishes next to it won’t impress the foodie in me, I’m sorry to say. In the end, I wouldn’t recommend this unless you’re desperate for a food-centric isekai. If you’re that keen on this story, I highly recommend the manga version over this, even though it’s a bit behind in the story - it’s worth it to slough off that bone-dry prose, and at least the basic food-prep has a prettied-up visual aid in that version to help your salivary glands along. “IOU04I80” - D. Caillou

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The subject says it. There were a million ways to do this. The way they chose was pretty mundane.