Not knowing what to say, Christopher could only pick up the shredded pork with beancurd skin and place it into his mouth. Obviously, the beancurd skin should only be added in when the dish is almost done. Some parts are still raw. Failed! Christopher commented in his mind. The shredded pork is fully cooked, but it’s overcooked and a little tough. So much effort was put into it, and yet, it’s a failure! It seems like not only was salt not added, but even certain seasonings, such as soy sauce and vinegar, weren’t added. Except for the bean flavor of the beancurd skin and the umami flavor from the shredded pork, there isn’t any other savoriness. It’s still a failure. The taste is average, and even the Knife Skills aren’t commendable. Forget the beancurd skin; even the shredded meat wasn’t cut properly; it’s still in chunks. A failed dish indeed. If the full score of a dish was ten, Christopher could only give the shredded pork with beancurd skin in front of him a score of two. In fact, this was only because of his favoritism toward Samantha. If the dish was made by someone else, even one point would be considered too high. Of course, Christopher wouldn’t say any of those things. It was important for him to shower Samantha with praises and encouragement. Just when he was about to praise her dish, he froze. “Hold on.” His expression changed, and he thought, This flavor… Like the bowl of tomato egg soup, the shredded pork with beancurd skin, which was clearly only worth one point, also had a peculiar taste that didn’t belong to either dish. What the hell is going on? Christopher’s expression turned solemn. It was one thing for the tomato egg soup to have a taste that didn’t originate from any of the ingredients, but even the shredded pork had it! This was definitely not a coincidence. The two dishes must have something in common! “Samantha, when you were cooking, did you really not add in any special seasonings?” Christopher asked once more. “I didn’t!” Samantha gave a firm shake of her head. “What’s the matter, Christopher? Is something wrong with my cooking?” Without answering Samantha’s question, Christopher tasted the remaining three dishes. As he expected, those dishes contained a flavor that didn’t belong as well. “Samantha, tell me in precise detail the process of your cooking. Don’t miss out on a single step!” Christopher said to Samantha in an extremely serious manner, as he felt it necessary to figure out where that flavor came from. Seeing how solemn Christopher looked, Samantha dared not dawdle, so she recalled her cooking process and described the situation. “Actually, I just did what I usually would. First, I washed the pot, then…” Samantha slowly gave an account of the entire process as Christopher carefully listened. Her cooking process was rather ordinary. There wasn’t anything special about it, and many mistakes were even made. For example, after washing the pot, she directly added the oil without first heating the pot. Moreover, after she was done cooking, she didn’t wash the pot before carrying on with the next dish. Another example was that she didn’t pay attention to the order in which the seasonings were added, but had put in whatever seasonings she thought of instead. Everything was done as she pleased. With such unruly cooking and no attention to details, she definitely wouldn’t be able to produce delicious dishes, so where did those incredible flavors come from? “That’s it? There’s nothing else?” Christopher prompted, because he wasn’t able to get the answer he wanted from Samantha’s explanation.“That’s all,” she said after thinking for a moment. “There’s really nothing else?” Christopher was a little dissatisfied. “There really isn’t!” Samantha answered with great certainty. “Christopher, what’s going on? Why do you keep asking me such strange questions?” Christopher didn’t answer her question. Instead, he lowered his head and fell into deep contemplation. Without a doubt, there was something he hadn’t discovered. Otherwise, the soup and the other dishes wouldn’t have that peculiar flavor. Besides the fact that Samantha cooked them, what else do they have in common? Christopher frowned as he racked his brains trying to figure it out. That’s it! A common point! As if realizing something, Christopher’s eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly ran into the kitchen. He looked all around the kitchen. After a long time, a dawning expression appeared on his face, and he cried out, “I’ve got it!” “Christopher, what is it?” asked Samantha, who had followed Christopher into the kitchen.Without giving an explanation, Christopher held Samantha’s tiny face and kissed her on the lips. Christopher was kissing her very passionately, and it caused Samantha, who was extremely sensitive, to collapse into his arms. “Samantha, you’ve been a huge help.” After letting Samantha go, Christopher said to the girl with the flushed cheeks, who had nearly suffocated in his arms. How could Samantha possibly hear what Christopher just said? His overbearing kiss just now had completely melted her. After dinner, Samantha went home straightaway, but Christopher rushed into the kitchen and started eagerly experimenting. He simply couldn’t wait because he already knew why Samantha, who had average cooking skills, could produce dishes with that magical flavor without adding any seasonings. The reason lay in the kitchen utensils—the ones that he stored in the Parallel Universe Kitchen Appliance and Storage Pack! This was the other thing those dishes shared in common besides being a product of Samantha’s cooking! Now, Christopher understood that when the cooking utensils were taken out from the Parallel Universe Kitchen Appliance and Storage Pack, the faint fragrance wasn’t from the kitchen, but from the cooking utensils! In no time, Christopher was done cooking a bowl of fried cabbage. After using a fork to pick some up, he placed the cabbage into his mouth. Sure enough, he tasted a flavor that didn’t belong to the cabbage. Now, he could be a hundred percent sure that that peculiar taste came from the cooking utensils. “Does this mean that the Parallel Universe Kitchen Appliance and Storage Pack can turn ordinary cookware into those rare Unique Cookware?” Christopher wondered with great excitement. More than 1600 years ago, there was a record in the book ‘Food and Cooking’ written by Dr. Charles Hoffman of the Northern Weld Period which stated, ‘The utensils determine the taste, and the food nourishes. After a few decades, the utensils can become Unique Cookware!’ Although all of Christopher’s pots, kitchen knives, and other cookware were handicrafts made using modern metallurgical technology, with the efficacy they currently possessed, they were undoubtedly Unique Cookware! As with using the best tea leaves, warming the tea set, and soaking the tea set in the tea for a long time to allow the tea set itself to possess the fragrance of tea, Unique Cookware were created in a similar way. As far as Christopher knew, Madrila’s longest and most famous period was the Nord Period during the Quesanda Era. The Unique Cookware, 'the Spring Knife', that the famous chef, Alexander Wright, created was in the hands of Scarlett’s grandfather—Lawrence. The specific method of creating Unique Cookware was lost during the war that swept across Madrila decades ago, and most of the Unique Cookware remaining in the world were legacies of their predecessors. To ordinary people, these Unique Cookware were nothing more than pots and pans of a certain age, but to chefs, they were absolutely comparable to their lives. He had long known that the Parallel Universe Kitchen Appliance and Storage Pack had other functions besides storing cookware like a Storage Ring, but Christopher didn’t expect it to have this function as well. It was simply unbelievable!