The moment those words were spoken, the whole crowd erupted.
Quite a few people wore strange expressions.
By any reasonable standard, how could a chef possibly not use a pet beast that had mastered Culinary Will when cooking?
But if that really was the case, didn't that mean at least half the fruit platters they had just eaten had been freshly cut by this dog?
"I'm dying." Seeing that the truth was out, Snakeskin and the others struggled to suppress their laughter in a corner.
They had undergone professional training and generally wouldn't laugh-unless they couldn't help it!
Actually, this wasn't a big deal. Pet beasts commonly helped chefs cook and process complicated ingredients.
How could cooking over a stove possibly offer better heat control than cooking with the power of a fire-type pet beast?
Some special ingredients had extremely demanding temperature requirements that stove fires could hardly meet.
There were also fierce beasts with hard scales or armor. Slaughtering them with human strength alone was extremely difficult, so the power of pet beasts was needed to butcher them.
So this was very common.
The only slight difference was that in all those cases, pet beasts assisted the chef. The dishes still mainly depended on the chef's own knife work.
But fruit platters... for a dog that had mastered Culinary Will and could hold a blade in its mouth to slash people, it seemed to make little difference whether a human chef was there or not.
Many guests rubbed their throats, feeling somewhat uncomfortable. Eating a dish prepared entirely by a dog just felt strange.
"One more match! Then I can pick one resource. Three more, and I can pick three!" At that moment, Lu Ran simply pretended not to hear the discussion. He had eyes only for the Clear