Was improving one's cooking skills difficult?
If you had asked Erina Nakiri when she had first begun learning Cooking, she would have answered without hesitation: Not at all! For someone blessed with the God's Tongue, improving her cooking skills when she had first started learning had been no harder than eating or drinking—back then, her skills improved at a visible rate every single day.
But if the question were asked now...
Once a skill mastered by humans reached a certain level, it would fall into a state known as a bottleneck. In that state, people often felt that no matter what they did, they made no progress at all. Only by breaking through that bottleneck could they climb still higher—before falling into the next one.
For everyone, breaking through a bottleneck was a difficult process...
Even those blessed with exceptional talent suffered greatly while overcoming bottlenecks, while those without talent would bow beneath one bottleneck after another. The existence of bottlenecks was what separated ordinary people from masters.
Cooking was also a skill mastered by humans. When it came to Cooking, Erina Nakiri, who possessed the God's Tongue, could no longer merely be described as exceptionally gifted. It would not be an exaggeration to say she had been blessed by the heavens.
Yet even as the owner of the God's Tongue, while Erina Nakiri found it easier than most to break through bottlenecks in her cooking, she still would not dare call it extremely simple.
If improving one's cooking skills was not difficult, what would the students expelled from Totsuki think? What would those who had devoted their entire lives to research yet never became star-rated chefs think?
It was precisely because he understood this that Sogo Doma the Bluffer had just gone online:
"Erina, improving your cooking skills actually