Do you have any cooking headcanons? Or eating habits of the guys who don’t have basic cooking skills?
• Word Count: 1,838. • Synopsis: Which boys can cook the chat, and which can't. • Note: Thanks for the request Anon, I haven't forgotten about any of my other requests; I just randomly spawn the fuck in when my inspiration tells me to. :)
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• Keisuke: Knows how to cook pretty well actually. Strikes me as a teriyaki or spicy food lover. On a regular basis his eating habits are pretty healthy, given the fact he lives with a family of doctors, or at least in the clinical/medical field. Ryosuke definitely tells him to eat better if he notices his brother eating too much vending machine or convenience store food after racing nights when its the only thing available. He tends to eat the same things like a routine, will only really try new foods if its at restaurants, but even then he'd probably order something he knows he likes regardless. When he does cook at home, he's pretty good at doing multiple dishes at once. Can make a big ass main course and handle the sides pretty much at the same time without getting frustrated that something is burning or not, he normally just uses a lower temperature to prevent that from happening.
• Ryosuke: This man can COOK, chat. Challenges Gordon Ramsey on the daily by just breathing. Prefers cooking at home over restaurants, but does enjoy going out occasionally. To him, making his own food for himself and family feels better, more thorough in his options of what to put in it or not, and helps him clear his head of any running thoughts when he's too focused on cutting veggies or meat and handling multiple pots/pans, or oven-baked food at once. If you make a subtle comment that you're craving a specific food, expect it for dinner a few hours later and it looks like art that you'd feel bad for digging into and ruining it. His eating habits are obviously very healthy. Besides his (and everyone's) chronic smoking habits in Stage 1, he's a real healthy guy, especially when he's gonna be a future doctor and all.
• Takumi: Give it up for day 137 of eating straight leftover tofu that didn't sell. Kidding. His dad probably does most of the cooking and I'm sure they at least have a decent variety from time to time, such as chicken, to beef, to pork, and lots of veggies. He definitely loves fish, so he's at least getting proteins in him. Can't imagine he goes out to eat a lot, being short on money all the time, and preferring to save it for the future. Thus, he'll prefer to just eat at home or if Itsuki takes him out for another wheeze inducing hot spring bun, he'll be more than happy to have free food. I see his eating habits to be pretty good, seeing as he doesn't really have the time nor money to splurge on convenient food or canned coffee all the time. Unlike his dad, he probably likes tofu, but like anyone else, eat the same thing for too long and you'll get sick and tired of the taste.
• Takeshi: THIS MAN CAN C O O K! So anyway, he can be your personal chef. This man can flip stir-fry and a shit ton of rice in a pan better than I can flip my life around. He can practically whip up anything he or you wants without even having a recipe memorised or look through something to tell him what he needs, he just K N O W S. His intuition for cooking is amazing and if the Japanese celebrated Thanksgiving, he's your man. His eating habits are definitely healthy with the occasional snack or small pack of food from a convenient store after racing or during his lunch break at work if he forgets to make something. Otherwise, he loves that protein, lots of fish and chicken, occasionlly has a nice steak and probably puts pork in his fancy ramens, like tonkotsu. If you're dating him, you are his Certified Taste Tester™ but it's rare that anything he makes will be bad.
• Shingo: Day 315 of eating packet ramen. He can taste colours. Day 316, got a girlfriend, tasted meat and veggies for the first time in years. Nah, jkjk. I shit on this man too much. His diet isn't the worst, but it does probably consist of food that's quick and easy to make rather than more time consuming. Probably goes out to eat more often too for that reason and ends up finding some good places that are cheap too. He can cook at home too, he's not terrible by any means, but his dishes are simple. He'd most likely make something with plain chicken, carrots, broccoli, snap peas, and whatever else a basic teriyaki chicken is made with and just lather on some teriyaki sauce after its all cooked. If he wants his ungodly spice, he's gotta go to spicy restaurants for that cause the spice recipes elude him. Probably used too much paprika once and coughed out paprika powder.
• Itsuki: Probably enjoys cooking as a hobby, or for his parents so they don't have to after they get home from work. Is pretty good at cooking a variety of dishes as well; knows how to make homemade sushi of course. Enjoys going out to the occasional restaurant too with the SpeedStars, but also being a broke highschooler who invested his money into his car, he's prefers homemade food. He can cook multiple dishes at once, bake things amazingly too. He loves baking over cooking. Cookies or brownies? Hell yeah. Pie or muffins? He's on a mission. Will let you taste test anything he makes, he likes to see your reactions and does take constructive criticism well, he wants to improve.
• Iketani: Doesn't cook all that often, he usually goes to that Family's restaurant or some cafés with Kenji and the SpeedStars, or eats whatever his mum cooks. When he does cook, it's usually simple dishes with minor seasoning or spices, he doesn't put a lot of time into it, prefers to just cook something healthy and eat it ASAP.
• Kenji: Hidden talent that he doesn't use. Could also challenge Gordon Ramsey, but rarely cooks. Like Iketani, he eats with the guys at restaurants, or picks up some convenience store foods. When he does cook or bake, it's a masterpiece. Put him and Ryosuke in a room together and you have a banquet fit for kings. Also knows exactly what he needs and how much of everything without needing the recipe after the first time studying it.
• Kenta: Strikes me as a guy who loves fried food. He'll deep fry anything at home. Fish, chicken, pork, veggies, pretty much anything. Loves tempura as well, he'll make deep fried tempura oreos as dessert and the RedSuns actually eat that shit up. Even Ryosuke likes it. He doesn't fry everything all the time, he doesn't want to wear it out, but it is made at least once a week. He cooks pretty well too, probably cooked a lot for his parents as well, so he really found a flow as well as his likes and dislikes when he'd try out different dishes.
• Kyoichi: LOVES beer-basted fish. Fish and chips are his favourite. He gives me simple guy vibes when it comes to food and drinks. Plain food, cheap beer, he's a happy man. He rarely cooks at home, usually goes out to cheap but really good restaurants he's found over the years. Prefers those little independent owned sushi bars where it's outside someone's house and the sushi bar only has like 5 seats and it's only one guy making the food. Those are top tier for him. When he does cook, its pretty well made, nothing's burnt or ruined, just plain. If you're dating, you'll have to incorporate the magical thing called seasoning and make a few dishes for him to try before he'll even consider using spice or seasoning in whatever he makes for you two.
• Rin: Put him and Ryosuke in a room together, and you'll get one of two endings. 1. They duke it out and fight. 2. They make a godly combination of dinner. No inbetween. Rin actually loves cooking. It's calming, takes his mind off things, and like Ryo, it's also a nice distraction. Rin only started finding a passion for it when he realised some of his dishes tasted better than some restaurants of the same type of food. After that, he prefers cooking at home. Gou eats that shit up. His brother takes it upon himself to be the undesignated taste tester and will sneak pieces of food while Rin's not looking.
• Gou: As above, he prefers testing over cooking. If you're both together, he'll stay out of your way so you don't get mad and throw a spoon at him for being in the way or trying to help but is actually making it worse. He'll chat with you, and mainly do the yapping about races and the like while you're more focused on the food. You'll give him the okay to come over and taste something and see if it needs more spice, seasoning, less of something, etc. He's got VERY good senses for this sort of thing so I believe he can more so mold you to become a better cook with his suggestions and constructive criticism over him actually making anything. He gives very in depth explanations of what you should add, how long to let something sit, what temp to cook or bake it at, but as SOON as he attempts to do it for himself, somewhere, somehow, he fucks it up. World's top 10 unsolved mysteries, typa behaviour.
• Wataru: Chef's kiss. He loves a good variety of food and prefers mixing things up through the week, so expect this man to make a new dish every day, and it's always amazing. He's the type where if he goes to a restaurant, café, or bar, orders something and loves it, he takes it upon himself to try to get the recipe from the bartender, the waiter, or really savour the food and drink to discern what's in it and then try to recreate it from memory. Lots of trial and error, you'll be testing with him, and he yearns for feedback until he perfects the craft.
• Nobuhiko: Is a really good cook and actually helps you in the kitchen rather than the annoying "help" most people inadvertently do. He pairs well with you as a team at making food and knows without even speaking what he needs to do or mix so the food doesn't burn, or what to add to what dish at a certain point in the recipe while you switch your focus to something else for a minute. It's amazing, really. It's also cute when his glasses fog up from the heat and he has to either keep wiping them off, lift them for the fog to go away or just slide them up on his head and try to work on the food mostly blind cause it's blurry as hell for him, but he still does well.