Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

"Now both of you. I'll handle the meat and dindles today before I do my own exercises!

There were two dindle packed backpacks in front of those hulkas, a leather bag with the rest of the task bore, along with tools such as barrels and pans that I had purchased along the way.

"Yes, question!

"Yes, Toya!

Harka points Bisili at Toya, who raised his hand vigorously.

"Is there something I can do?"

"It's okay. Anyone can. Of course, to Nao. Let's start with the meat."

Hulka arranges three slabs, placing the appropriately cut meat on top.

"First of all, this meat is easy to eat - cut into about half the size of your palm at about 1 cm thick"

Trying to instruct him like a cooking recipe, Hulka gives Chirali and Toya a glance and re-specifies it clearly.

Yeah, vague instructions for novice opponents are dangerous, Halka.

It's the same as saying 'a little' or 'the right amount' to someone who can't cook.

Especially if you're Toya now, you could say that super thick chopped steaks are 'easy to eat' or something.

"Remove the bones clean. And fat, too."

"Hmm? You throw away fat too? I think this meat, fat, is delicious..."

It smelled slightly of dindle from the freshly baked fat and it felt good.

Honestly, 'You can't throw that away!'.

"I know how you feel. But if it dries, I don't think that's a good place to oxidize it."

I see. Is that what it is?

Haruka's words, which I don't understand very well but have good cooking and even more skill, should be followed.

"Hey, shouldn't we just give it a try?

"It would be nice if Toya would dispose of it responsibly... just a little bit?

"Oh, I know."

All right, if it tastes good, let's split it it.

If it doesn't taste good, let Toya do her best. It's the end of the line.

- It sucks while I am.

When it comes to serving only one pig, there is also a considerable amount of meat.

While we slice the meat and remove the chimatima and bones and fat, Hulka uses the pan to mix the salt with the herbs she has taken on the road, a small amount of spices purchased at the store, small chopped dindle skins, etc.

When that was over, Hulka also entered the battle for a slice of meat and piled up more meat than we did as we looked around.

The meat that is no longer on the slab is then put into the barrel with the salt prepared by Hulka.

"Hey, how do you think Dindle's gonna make it?

"I thought about two things: boiling" Yu "and then drying, applying preservative herbal juice and then drying. That size fruit, if you dry the whole thing, it usually rots, right?

"I don't think boiling will change the way it rots... but there seems to be preservatives."

Oh, well.

Even if it is sterilized immediately after boiling, will it be contaminated over time? Unless it's completely sealed, like a retort pack.

"What about Toya?

"Uh-huh... hey, it's not gonna get cold all at once from now on, is it?

"Huh? Yeah. Temperatures go down seasonally, but it doesn't look like it's going to be freezing down at night around here. Even when it's coldest."

Oh, I appreciate that.

Nothing, I didn't hate winter, but this world has no air conditioning, no airtight houses.

I don't even know if there are thermal insulating clothes like down jackets, and even if there are, it costs money to buy them.

That's the only mild climate that helps economically.

"Can't you do that? I was wondering if I could use it if it would give me a temperature where I could ice. Look, there's talk of Andean potatoes, right?

"Oh, speaking of which"

Something I think I learned in class.

Around the Andes, harvested potatoes are left outdoors. They repeated the act of freezing them at night, stepping on molten objects during the day to give them moisture, drying them and storing them for long periods of time.

Exactly when I step on the dindle, it's going to crumble, but I also feel it's possible to dry it without rotting it this way.

"In the first place, you don't need hot water, do you?

"It's... it's just a bribe." But were you making it? Or tea or something?

Think about it for a second, Toya, saying there's no such thing as a body or lid.

A clue I got from Mr. Diola, it's ruined.

"- No, well, that's possible, isn't it? It's not a narrative trick, but Diola didn't say it was a tool that needed hot water."

I sure am!

I twisted my head in the use of hot water. I look like an idiot.

"So, what do you think of Hulka?

"Me? I was wondering if I would use it like a dried persimmon,"

The way the dried persimmon is made is basically just peel the tomato skin, string it together, hang it and dry it, but sometimes it is lightly dipped in hot water at that time.

It is Hulka's idea that we are doing the same thing in Dindle.

"Maybe it's for sterilization, right? Can you just sterilize the surface?

I think it would be more difficult to grow mold if I sterilized it than if I stayed in touch with my hand, but can I handle it to that extent?

"You can do dried persimmons, so you don't think dindles are impossible either."

"Isn't that because it's winter temperatures and ventilation, and skinning it? Temperatures are high here, and the dindle stays peeled. The advantages are where humidity is low?

Food spoilage is a major factor in temperature and humidity.

Humidity in particular is important, and it is also relevant that perishable fish can be dried.

In the case of dried persimmons, it just dries before it rots, so there's no problem, and I say can you dry that size of fruit while it's skinned......

"Aren't you still know-how around there? If it was easy, I wouldn't keep it a secret."

"What's Hulka's magic to ruin know-how?"

"You don't listen well to ruining it. I tried so hard to remember, didn't I?

"I know that."

I still can't use my own magic!

I'm not proud of it at all.

"Well, we've never seen a dry dindle in the first place, have we? Actually, like bonito, there's a chance they're using mold?

"- That's right, Toya, you're gonna break the roots all of a sudden"

"As far as I know, I don't know about dried fruit that uses mold, but it's a zero chance."

"I'm not talking about doing something with another hassle when that happens, and let's give up... duh. Yikes! That's it!

The meat was processed as the hands kept moving as we talked.

The work of Hulka, who later joined the war but cut the most meat, was the first to be finished, and so were we.

Later, the salting of the meat is complete if it is transferred to the barrel and the salt is mixed in.

You should leave the removed fat and bones in the skin bag and throw them in the woods even at work tomorrow.

"Both of you, hands and knives out"

It also cleans the hands, fats and slabs that Hulka has become sticky with together 'purifying' them.

Really, it's such a handy magic.

I just don't want to think about cleaning this fat without the detergent for the kitchen.

"What are we gonna do after that?

"Until the salt stains the meat...... at least a day or two, maybe a week if possible? Wait, then gently wash it, it's dry."

"Doesn't that take a lot? Barrels, do I have to get extra?

"... Toya, how much dry meat are you going to make?

"Huh? The pig just hunted?

Hulka and I sigh face to face with Toya saying things like that naturally.

"Toya, you just can't eat it, can you?

"Oh, yeah? Assuming you make a ton, if it's a year for three, it's less than a kilo a day...... a little more?

"Not a little! If it's just meat, you'll still die of excessive salt if you eat so much salted meat!

Even if I do salt draining, I feel just as bad.

[Stubborn] Does skills also work for lifestyle diseases?

"Do you do this task every day in the first place? I'd like to be honest with you."

It's no big deal if you just take the bones and slice them, but it was quite a hassle to get rid of the fat.

You remember that amount of work, Toya roars sadly.

"I hope it tastes good even if it stays greasy... or remove it to a good feel with the magic of Hulka"

"Toya, how much are you going to rely on my magic... maybe I can"

"Can you?!?"

It's Haruka from the boulder "That's right".

"Hmm, think about Lard's melting point and try to squeeze it out......? The problem is magic."

Unfortunately, there are no MP displays in the status, but using magic, you can physically understand that something is consumed.

Compared to the first one, I feel like I can use a lot of magic, but it's hard to figure out if there's really more magic because I'm invisible, or if I can use it efficiently, or if I've just started squeezing it out to the limit again.

If we solve it numerically, we can do some magic experiments.

"Magic restorative pills are expensive and don't fit for it, and the only thing I think I can make if I'm in front of you is Harka."

The game may not have been a problem, but when it comes to reality, we obviously feel like we missed our skill choices.

It's good in battle, but me and Toya aren't very helpful in our normal lives.

Without skills, our abilities can only be as good as the ordinary people in the original world, chores.

"I have to dry... and if Toya's going to get rid of fat roughly, I think it's going to take a little less magic."

"What! I'll do it! My [demolition] skills will spark fire. No!

"Toya, how much do you like meat..."

You don't have [dismantling] skills yet in the first place.

"Well, it'll save you money on food, and if Toya says she'll work hard, I'll work with you... Nao, how much time can you use Accelerated Time?

"Er, about 3x as it stands, the duration is... I don't think squeezing is less than 10 hours"

"I mean... if you put a day or two away over this barrel, do you feel like you know the whole two days? It would be a bad idea to call back tomorrow morning."

"Right. Anyway, if you're off work, it's hard not to be able to use magic in battle to get to the woods"

Though I haven't used it in a lot of combat lately, it would be necessary as insurance.

I haven't even met Goblin yet.

"Do you need one more barrel if you think it will marinate for 3 days? It's expensive, isn't it, barrels?"

I've never bought a barrel in the original world, so I can't even compare it, but it's about 2 turns smaller than the drum can size and roughly 3,000 rare.

A little more expensive than the pan we bought together.

"Hey, you don't have to be new to barrels, do you? Let's ask your father here if he can give it up. If all this flourishes, some foods are bought in barrels, right?

"Oh well! Toya, great! That's right, you use it for salting, so you won't have a problem with it being used! I don't care about the smell."

Later on, when my father talked to me about the situation in his spare time, he decided to split the barrel for free, provided that he hemmed the dried meat he had made a little.

The barrel containing the liquor was somewhat smaller than what we had bought, but thanks to the splitting of some of it, there was no more worry about the barrel.

By the way, I looked it up at a later date, and the used barrels were normally sold, and the items with a good degree of appearance (not much damage to the exterior and not with an unpleasant odor) were about half the price of the new one, so I thanked my father for splitting it almost for free and hemmed the dindle a bit.