Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 979 - 481: Bottleneck

Qin Huai really wants to work hard, but his abilities are limited, and the skill level can't just be maxed out with a cheat; it's not like you can modify the backend simulator numbers to fill it up. This thing is like raising a spirit's favorability; it takes time.

Right now, Qin Huai is working on both skill level and favorability at the same time. In a way, it's a two-pronged approach.

You know what, it's actually quite effective.

At first, when An Youyou stayed with Qin Huai and Zhao Cheng'an in the morning to watch them make snacks, nobody paid much attention. After all, An Youyou was specifically brought over from Yunzhong Restaurant by Qin Huai, and she comes early every morning to help Qin Huai with prep work. Whenever Qin Huai has free time, it's normal for him to give personal guidance to his own employees.

When the personal guidance entered the third day, many people at Zhiwei Restaurant started feeling something was off.

By the fifth day, Tan Wei'an couldn't hold back and came over to ask Qin Huai if he intended to take An Youyou as an apprentice because the style was so similar to a master teaching an apprentice.

On the sixth day of personal guidance, Master Zhou would steal glances over at Qin Huai while having a meeting with Boss Su to discuss recipes. He would look at Qin Huai then at An Youyou, clearly not understanding what Qin Huai saw in An Youyou. Did he admire her ability to wake up early?

The attention from everyone undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on An Youyou, even if she was brought over by Qin Huai. Such times inevitably lead to jealousy, even rumors that Qin Huai favors An Youyou for being able to wake up early.

After all, no matter how tough the snack masters are, very few can manage to start work at the restaurant at 3 AM.

As a result, some apprentices quietly started competing by trying to wake up earlier, moving their work start time from 7 AM to 6 AM then to 5 AM.

The reason it didn't go down to 4 AM was because Qin Huai noticed something was off, and specifically talked to Boss Su, who then curbed this unhealthy competition.

It's already ridiculous that every apprentice at Zhiwei Restaurant is skilled at brewing tea; there's no need to compete over work time. Snack masters don't need to wake up early either, they need to be awake for the afternoon shift; working 18 hours a day could lead to sudden death.

In the midst of these invisible undercurrents, An Youyou managed to maintain a good attitude like the Three-Legged Golden Toad.

No matter what others say or think or how crazy Tan Wei'an's new version of the rumors get, she doesn't care.

She just wants to do what she wants—pass Qin Huai's assessment, become Yunzhong Restaurant's successor, reach the peak of her life, and live in a dream-come-true big house.

On August 10th, Qin Huai and Zhao Cheng'an welcomed their first day off since returning from Beiping.

Qin Huai actually didn't want to rest.

His progress in skill level has been very average lately.

Can't say it's bad, all the values are increasing, as Qin Huai makes buns and dumplings every day at high intensity, his yeast skill level finally broke through the 90,000 mark yesterday, getting closer to reaching the Master Level.

Qin Huai can obviously feel that his yeast skill level has recently been increasing more slowly, slower and slower each day.

It's not the kind of slow where you get stuck at the level; most of the time, only the last 100 points are hard to gain, where high-intensity practice might only increase one or two points a day, and the last 10 points might not even increase after a full day's practice.

The yeast skill level obviously isn't this kind of situation; Qin Huai is still 9,000 points away from leveling up, and skill level isn't growing, indicating that the snacks Qin Huai is making are too basic, and the difficulty too low; no matter how much he practices, the improvement is limited.

Basic skills of a pastry chef are important, but you can't just practice basic skills alone; Jiang Chengde's skills are almost maxed out, so much so that they overflow, and it's unlikely that practicing white buns every day reached that.

Anyway, according to Zhao Cheng'an, Jiang Chengde, because his wife Qin Wan is a Qin Family member and famous outside the border with Qin's Steamed Bun Shop, even though Jiang Chengde knows few types of snacks (skilled in northern snacks, but knows little about southern snacks), his technique in making snacks isn't worse.

This can be seen from the S-Class recipe locust flower buns that Qin Huai has come across; Qin Huai still doesn't fully understand the techniques used for locust flower buns. The difficulty is too high, and there's no explanation; even with video tutorials, it's like looking at a secret recipe.

A secret recipe is secret because without someone teaching, you can't understand it; even with the recipe, you wouldn't understand.

Qin Huai knows very well that it's impossible to max out the yeast skill level by only practicing white buns. And after making breakfast for so long, he's had enough; it's time to make some advanced snacks to showcase Master Qin's real skills to Zhiwei Restaurant's guests.

Over the past few months, Qin Huai has been making breakfast to the point where guests at Zhiwei Restaurant think they've got a professional breakfast chef, and some regulars guess Zhiwei Restaurant might be shifting focus. Bai'an Restaurant's reputation as the number one pastry place is no longer satisfying Zhiwei; now Zhiwei wants to grab both pastry and breakfast, not only aiming to be the top pastry restaurant but also the number one breakfast shop nationwide.

Reversing Bai'an Restaurant into a breakfast shop, the first of its kind.

Boss Su was outraged when he first heard this rumor, and immediately interrogated Tan Wei'an, and upon clearing it up, realized the rumor didn't even come from Tan Wei'an, and was shocked, suspecting a competitor was targeting them.

But Master Zhou thought the rumor was great; Master Zhou spent half a month researching production line snack recipes and found that in this new field compared to him and Zheng Da, it's as if he's a rookie. Even now, Master Zhou can't figure out how Zheng Da managed to use a production line for mid to low-end snacks, and even mid-range snacks.