You can use high value materials to pay the cost to make it taste good or give up a little bit of your soul to it.
Good chefs know how to perform the ritual just more efficiently with less cost.
You can use high value materials to pay the cost to make it taste good or give up a little bit of your soul to it.
Good chefs know how to perform the ritual just more efficiently with less cost.
This tracks. Some people only have a basic proficiency, following simple combinations and predictable transmutations, while experts create delicious substances otherwise unknown to man.
Combining plants, flesh, and various precious minerals into something edible is magic.
Yeah there is some real mercury to gold stuff out there.
I mean in a mercury to less toxic mercury example you can make a really interesting approximation of bone broth for tan tan by mixing chicken bouillon and oatmilk or regular milk and add it to sesame and chili paste and make an incredible soup.
But yeah. Its kinda like everyone’s possible real world magic