I think the point is that she gets flustered, but she's not mediocre at all. When she's not worried about failing things (failing to impress Dorm-masters or examiners) her cooking is great (stuff she does for the students in her spare time).
She is talented, but the way the school pressures students with the constant threat of failure doesn't mix with her.
Aside from changing the recipe, her Terrine warrants pass material.
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In some other show I wouldn't mind Megumi, but in this one where most of the really prominent characters are kind of special, self-confident, egoistic, and success oriented she stands out in a bad way, mainly making me think she has no business being there in the first place. Just like they told Soma: Is he going to keep looking over her shoulder for the whole duration of the high school and save her time after time if necessary? She should instead go to a more regular cooking school that doesn't make a point of dropping ten times more students than graduating.
I never thought Erina wasn't hot. It's just that her personality is rotten.
Regarding Shinomiya's Dish:
This is Auvergne, with a V. I know Vs are hard for Japanese people, but CR translators could be a little more refined and/or check.
A bit strange to have a mousse or the like in a choux farci. The farce is minced meat with other ingredients, but you have to have a grainy feeling. Having a mousse instead feels like some other dish.
Last complaint: Foie gras. This is not a complaint for the show/dish. Just a global complaint: Many chefs/restaurant like to add foie gras everywhere. It's some kind of marketing trick. But most of the time it does little to no good to dishes.
People have to remember this is mainly fat, with some taste to it. So mixing it finely and adding plenty of other tastes around makes it a bit hard to justify its use...
And lets be clear, foie gras is a farmer's delicacy. Use it with a thick dark bread loaf, you'll get a foodgasm with something that feels too common and simple, but closer to the truth of the product.
Of course, you can also use figs, if you like to mix salt and sugar tastes.
Then, you have so many levels of quality in foie gras... First is: Duck or goose? the latter has a more refined taste to me.
Also, that product has had so many (awful) clones created by industrials that you should be very careful in chosing it.
Aside from that, I like the idea of the choux farci, well prepared, it certainly is something great to eat in autumn. It's also very close to my (father's side) cultural roots.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
btw i had always thought a terrine is a kind of soup ...
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
@David - I perfectly agree about the foie gras. When it was mentioned as part of the ingredients, I immediately thought, "How passe." Foie gras shouldn't be treated as a magical ingredient, especially because it is strong in flavor and will overpower your dish, like it should have done in this episode.
Peace.
Well, this is in fact anything that is gelified with layers of ingredients or multiples ingredients. Some recipes have a name of their own. But anything that uses the same techniques to have a gelified block you can cut in slices works.
The idea is that it's easier to serve some ingredients in a terrine as you can easily slice them. Nice for traiteurs (people selling cooked food)
A terrine last a little longer than other dishes.
Beef gelly can bring some flavors to the front.
You can have a very nice combination of colors
It's fairly easy to prepare
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
the 5 minute-instant stuff describes the cup, not the soupOriginally Posted by MFauli
btw i had always thought a terrine is a kind of soup ...
Duck foie gras is stronger. Goose foie gras would be wasted in his dish...
There's bacon already in his recipe. That should really be enough to counter some of the dry feeling you get from pork fibers.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
About the episode, well, it's hard to defend Shinomiya's behavior after this episode. I suppose I gave him too much benefit of the doubt as far as his character goes. I like the rainbow of Megumi's dish.
What's different?
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Specifically, it appears he is making decisions based more on personal pride than in the interest of benefiting the exam process. He demonstrated spite so plainly that it leaves little room for interpretation this time, I feel.
There are plenty of people like that among the top specialists in the world, especially among those who needed to compete intensively to get where they are. It doesn't change the fact they are required to eliminate a bunch of students during this camp. I still maintain it's fair to eliminate someone who deviated from the recipe. It doesn't matter if the exam supervisor is a scumbag by nature or not.
You can argue all day that it's fair (it really isn't given all the traps), but it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid. It's a school to train those with potential, not trap them.
Peace.
Yeah, but it's also a school in Japan. They can only reward those who respect the teachers and follow instructions to the letter. Naturally this doesn't need to apply to the MC in a shounen series, who always somehow gets off the hook.
Also, like I said earlier, this clearly isn't the right school for Megumi as she is now, which explains partly why she got kicked. Or was now, assuming she finally changed after having to bear the role of the chef in this contest. It's a school for the bold and self-confident.
I agree with this, which is why I'd like to see more training and teaching, and less expelling.
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Only the dickhead glasses guy wanted her kicked out. The other instructors didn't. An informal shokugeki was even arranged to give Megumi a chance to remain. If she deserved to be expelled, the other instructors would not allow it.
Peace.
They are all individuals. Bold and self-confident assumes a certain amount individualism. Among such people there would even be inherent value in disagreeing just for the sake of disagreeing (just like here on the forums). Besides, perhaps Shinomiya is exceptionally unpleasant among the many instructors of the school, and the rest would rather give Megumi a chance to adapt her personality and avoid wasting her skills by dropping out. Moreover, they risk Soma getting kicked out as well. A blind man would see the potential in him, and he has the correct personality to boot.
Uh, that's what I've been saying.
The informal shokugeki risks Souma getting kicked out. Kicking Megumi out plain and simple doesn't, unless he decides to quit, which he won't.
Peace.
I actually disagree with this.
The middle school section is for that. That's the place where the school trains the students to cook. Souma (and the Aldini brothers) look down on those students who learned to cook at the school and never served an actual restaurant. Those three learned on the job, not at a school learning theory and scientific technique.
The high school section on the other hand, is specifically set up to find leaders. They're not looking for line cooks or sous chefs, they are looking for executive chefs (or Chef de cuisine). They only want students who can prove that they'll innovate, command, and revolutionize restaurants.
The problem with this is assholes like Shinomiya. He's so set in his ways that a chef should dominate the kitchen, not lead it. Hinako correctly identified Megumi's potential, which is why she is so biased. She is a Japanese chef, while Shinomiya is a French chef. Hinako sees that Megumi has a firm grasp on Japanese rustic cuisine, but lacks in confidence because she is ultra-Japanese and therefore modest to the point that it hurts her. Megumi is preeminently Japanese, and that is counter-intuitive with what being a stand-out chef is all about.
We can't forget that Hinako is no less cruel than Shinomiya, but she hides it better.
Shinomiya did threaten to kick him out as well if he doesn't back off. Yukihira was the one who issued the challenge, so there's no way he would.
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