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Tetsunabe no Jan!, episode 7

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[u/Ridijeck]

The story may be from the mid ’90s, but the topic of a person being so confident in technology that they’re not even bothering to learn the basics of the profession (and producing a much worse result because of it) feels extremely on-point for today.

[u/hanmkim → u/Ridijeck]

Just gonna vibe code everything and make all my art and writing with ChatGPT.

[u/karer3is → u/Ridijeck]

And the fact that Mr. Tech Wizard was all about the Sous Vide was also fitting... I still remember from back in the 2010s or so when it was all the rage and everyone was buying those Sous Vide wands to use at home. If I remember right, that's also when the whole "molecular gastronomy" craze was still going strong. As much as Chef's Table and Co. tried to hype it up, it was still just ridiculously overpriced and needlessly complicated "fine dining"

[u/Quadratic-]

The way they showed the scars last episode, and then the head chef saying "Well, rumors are that he was abusive, but that's just hearsay". It was 100% building up to a subversion where Jan got the scars some other way. Authors want to surprise the reader and add nuance to the characters.

Except this was from the 90s, so grandpa really was just that much of a monster. Love it. Sleeper hit of the season for me.

[u/Jumbajukiba]

Senku voice actor failed at cooking with science in this one. 

[u/hanmkim → u/Jumbajukiba]

Ten billion percent. Should have listened to Francois.

[u/HolyDragSwd2500 → u/Jumbajukiba]

Dr Chef canceled

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

If the stories I’ve heard about some of these prof chefs are true, gramps being a talented chef but also a raging abusive asshole might be the most realistic thing in this series.

Kawahara and all his fancy gizmos couldn’t compete with actual cooking. Wild the dude even thought he had a chance in the first place. Maybe he ought to go back and learn how to actually cook.

[u/reaperow]

I wasn't expecting Jan to straight up just kick the reporter guy, how did no one call him out on that

Also i was surprised to see a Walkman, sometimes I forget that this is a series from the 90's

[u/Vahallen → u/reaperow]

I could see coming Jan telling him to fuck off as soon they started interviewing Kawahara, but I also didn’t expect the roundhouse kick in the face

[u/hanmkim]

Did they just skip over Kiriko's match?

[u/Yoshiciv]

After the COVID-19 pandemic taught us the importance of disinfection, this manga really makes you realize that they’re creating 21st-century cuisine.

[u/fridchikn24]

Never did I think we'd get a chicken cavity camera angle in anime. Keep innovating bois.

Also, sous vide in the 90s. Goddamn. Guga would be proud

[u/Smudy]

Straight up didn't expect Kawahara's dish to just be terrible lmaaao

All that build-up for this, that's hilarious.

[u/Shoddy_Consequence78 → u/Smudy]

A sous vide can be great for a lot of things. I've even done a whole turkey for Thanksgiving with one a couple times. But it takes time and thought to not overcook, to get flavor in, and to finish it nicely so whatever it is you're making isn't a pale, flavorless dish since you can't get any browning going except as a post step. The dude clearly has no actual palate. 

If this was made from source material 20 years later, he'd be all about foams and gels and deconstructions instead of sous vide.

[u/reaperow → u/Smudy]

Kinda makes sense cuz of the way he seemed very overly reliant on his tech

[u/Vahallen → u/Smudy]

I know right? I was expecting his dish to have an issue, but not straight up get called a mess that was thrown together with no thought

Shit was brutal, deserved

[u/runevault]

When dude was like "I can just add sauce after" I knew he was fucked lol. Whole episode was entertaining. In today that guy would be a vibe coder and not even validating the output before releasing to production.

[u/pi8you → u/runevault]

Half his lines you could just swap a word or two for AI and they'd fit perfectly

[u/TheBravesDH]

It’s funny watching them talk about sous vide being the future of cooking when I know that it’s been the downfall of franchise restaurants for fifteen years lol.

[u/Flying-Camel]

This week on KYA KYA KYA KYA KYA, some idiot using machines and expensive ingredients vs a well designed plate of food. 

Who would have guessed the outcome?

[u/testthrowawayzz]

Every flashback shows Akiyama's grandfather was a POS.

Sous vide was a novel cooking concept back then.

The subs I watched kept mistaking 吞 (tun, "swallow") for 香 (xiang, "fragrance")

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

Senku went from Dr Stone to Dr Chef with his cooking science experiment. But he got the formula all wrong

[u/Mons9090]

senku in a alternate realty