• tsukasa: really good at cooking, the best out of wxs (is anyone surprised.) he learned to make his first dish (tomato and scrambled eggs stir fry, real ones know what it is /silly, but i LOVE that freaking dish) when he was about 7, and hes tried making a variety of other foods when he was alone in the house (totally did not get burnt when opening the oven when baking cookies..or cut himself with a knife..) and he also makes/helps his parents make meals for the family because he wanted to help as much as he could.
he started out by following recipes but now he often puts his own spins on them and they always turn out perfect (worthy of a mirai no star!!!), but he CANNOT memorize recipes so he has like 20812 recipes saved in his phone. the only one he managed to remember is a 5 ingredient hot cocoa recipe because saki wanted to have it every day during the winter holidays once
teaches saki and toya how to cook (one of them got really good at it and we all know its not toya </3) he and saki makes each others bentos sometimes!
tsukasa also makes baked goods for wxs (including the vocaloids) and brings food for after long practices because he is big brother™️
• rui: not as bad as one would think he is at cooking actually. he follows recipes EXACTLY, like he measures down to the grams when preparing ingredients, and the results actually taste good (though somehow the food he makes always ends up looking a bit. interesting. no matter how he tries to fix it (i kinda adopted this hc from someone on lofter lol)
two things that keep him from cooking a lot:
1) he avoids vegetables at all costs so that limits his recipe choices since he can only make edible food when following recipes exactly so he cant just emit the vegetables from recipes </3
2) he considers himself too busy to get out of his room, measure out ingredients, and then cook them, plus tsukasa (being the nice big brother figure he is) always feeds him food, and nene (being ruis poor neighbour) checks on him from time to time to make sure hes not dead, hes not going to starve anyways so he just doesnt bother with it
• nene: can only cook a few select quick meals (eg. dumplings that she did NOT make from scratch, instant noodles, egg fried rice with leftover rice, sandwiches, easy sushi rolls) that her mom taught her how to make. she doesnt like standing and cooking food for hours straight and having to wash up all the dishes afterwards so she usually doesnt try anything too ambitious
when she was bored once she tried baking chocolate ganache cookies with a recipe, they turned out PERFECT the first time, but she was not able to get them right ever again afterwards due to some mysterious power at work...(totally not me projecting </3)
however she somehow has a random talent for making microwave mug cakes and she often makes like 10 of these in giant tupperwares for rui every weekend so that he doesnt starve to death during the week
• emu: loves to cook...however...she's not very good at it. when following recipes alone, she always gets cool ideas halfway through to add to the food, but they sadly dont work out. she also mixes up ingredient sometimes (she put baking powder instead of baking soda into cupcakes once and they ended up tasting really clumpy and somehow salty despite the amount of frosting and sprinkles she added)
having someone cook together with her can help greatly improve the quality of her food (after the valentines cake event, emu saki and airi sometimes get together on weekends to bake sweets but most of the time airi's presence is literally the only thing keeping the results from becoming a giant pile of sugar, sprinkles and edible glitter) (when they dont have time though, nene often ends up being the one baking with emu)
she loves to collect those cute little cooking gadgets (molds that make rice balls shaped like pandas, cutters that cut veggies into star shapes, etc) she also has many charms and mini plushy keychains on her bento box bag
yeah..thats it.. hope you enjoyed reading through this giant pile of my 10pm thoughts :D
