Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 3

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (Light Novel) #3

by Ren Eguchi, MASA . (Illustrator), Kevin Chen (Translator)

*Even though I don’t want to go to the dungeon!*

Caught up in a “Hero Summoning,” the hapless Mukohda was brought to another world from modern Japan, but he decided to make the most of it and enjoy a leisurely life of travel with his familiars, Fel and Sui.

With new goddesses forcing blessings on him in exchange for offerings, and another familiar in the form of a peckish pixie dragon, Mukohda steadily amasses wealth and power. Finally, the cowardly hero (with a little “help” from his friends) has reached the city of Dolan, where he will challenge the city’s dungeon, whether he wants to or not! But the challenges start before he sets foot inside the dungeon, such as getting accosted by a disappointment of a guildmaster, extorted for booze by some rather intense male gods, and splurging on an actual kitchen stove. For Mukohda, diligent preparation for dungeon diving begins with preparing enough meals to satisfy his voracious companions.

Thus armed to battle his familiar’s hunger, Mukohda’s party sets its sights on glorious battle in the dungeon. With ridiculous skills and overpowered magic beasts on his side, does the dungeon even stand a chance......?!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Manga, Fiction, Slice Of Life, Food, Adventure

222 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 25, 2017

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit slower-paced than the first two books, but the funniest moments are from the dragon-crazed guild leader. And now, there is suspicion of a foot with the younger three Heroes who are in danger.

[Mohith Kondaveeti · Rating 4 out of 5]

An alright book. I enjoyed the where Macoda and familiars just interact and really like parts where the plot progresses since this premise interests me alot. The cooking parts are mid for me and are not the pain draw for me. I am still waiting on the big hook of this series but am not sure if it exists.
I really liked how powerful everyone is getting from the Gods' blessings. The dungeon was nice with nice environments. I see alot of potential for me enjoying the rest of the series and the amount of books left excites me because I really do enjoy this premise

[ReadToBreathe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I missed the anime so I decided to pick up the novel. The manga has so many deleted scenes so the novel is definitely better. It was an enjoyable read.

[Victor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book

I've been waiting for this volume to come out.

I like the story so far and as an amateur cooker I like reading and if I get some of the ingredients, try a few of the recipes.

I'm looking forward to the next book and need to find a way to get my hands on some Asian spices, they are hard to get in Mexico.

[Steven Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don't wanna go

When the character says doesn't want to go but the familiars insist...Like marriage you end up going. Good story, like the gods but want to see what comes next. Get volume4 out!!!

[Benjamin Wong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmmm, there are clear differences between the Manga and LN, though I am not mad at it. I guess some stuff works better in a visual form and other stuff in written form, or it's just probably tweaks made after the fact to enhance the story. Still enjoyable though.

[Richard Helfrich · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Story

I like when the story progresses. I pretty much just skip the sections that are him preparing food. Still like the series though. On to Volume 4!

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's amusing the situations this MC gets into, but he continues to be a coward with only minimal development. The humor is what keeps me reading though.

[Aelvana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mukohda and his familiars have finally reached the dungeon city of Dolan---and Fel couldn't be happier. But diving into such a deep dungeon is going to involve its own share of difficulties. Mostly food-related, for this party. Fel, Dora-chan, and Sui are fully capable of crushing anything in their way, but Mukohda still has to feed them . . .

If you've followed the story up to this point, then most of the developments won't be a surprise. It's a cycle of eat-crush enemies-more food. With a few wrinkles like a dragon-crazy guild master and some other shopping Mukohda needs to get out of the way.

It does strike me that this would be possibly better as a manga, or animated, in the sense that so much of the dungeon dive is not all that interesting. It's not like they can keep the corpses for later meals, so everything boils down to the useless loot and the few adventurers they meet along the way. And the humor from watching Mukohda freak out over every new danger.

Overall this is still not likely to convince anyone who didn't already like the first two books. I rate this book Neutral.

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[Sol González · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me siento culpable de que estos libros se acaben tan rápido. Creo que tome este en la mañana y lo estuve leyendo en los pequeños espacios del día y, antes de que pudiera darme cuenta, llegue al final.

Creo que Mappa hizo un molcajete cuando adaptaron esta serie al anime. En primer lugar, no recuerdo a Dora-chan para nada, luego la parte del calabozo, que es casi el total de este libro, lo resumieron en un: entraron y salieron. No se a donde querían llegar quitando todo un tomo.

Me da ternura como Mukohda termina ofreciendo comida a quien quiera que le haga ojitos y encontrarnos con personajes que lo recuerdan precisamente por cómo saben sus platos.

Igual comenzaron ya a dar detalles de por qué posiblemente sea tan bueno cocinando, por lo que parece trabajo en varias cocinas. Y los otros pedacitos interesantes son los avances en la tragedia que se avecina con los otros 3 viajeros que se quedaron en el reino que los invocó.

Seguiré leyendo.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m still enjoying the overall adventure, but skipping the excessive cooking descriptions. Unfortunately the writing is still pretty clumsy, with a lot of awkward and repetitive phrasing, telling instead of showing, etc. For example, the blacksmith and war gods have names, but kept calling each other “hey, god of blacksmithing!” etc. that’s weird.

The value of things is also not thought out. I want to know how you buy three bottles of whiskey for 3 silvers, which if I understand correctly, is about 3000 yen, currently about $22 USD. Is this very cheap whiskey, or super tiny bottles? Is alcohol in Japan amazingly cheap?? Besides the online store, occasionally he’ll go shopping for local products, and they seem on the expensive side. Mukouda does have an absurd amount of money so he can afford whatever he wants, but that’s not normal for this world. How do normal people survive?

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

.........I don't like elrand.

mukohda's got his hands full cooking for three familiars now, and I very much enjoy reading about the food and cookery. there's just something about that that's fun to read for me. but then they meet elrand...apparently I can wrap my head around differences in culture, but I have issues with crazy-ass boundary stompers no matter what world they're in.

the gods and goddesses are also a bit...extra, in this installment, for they don't take no for an answer since they forced their blessings onto mukohda and believe that they should get anything they want. still, mukohda is able to rein it in, and I think he says in a later installment that if it really bothered him that much, he'd just renounce the blessings and be done with them. I think the gods and goddesses get less annoying to me as time goes on because of that.

[Allen Simpson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The third book in this absolute fun series, We continue our adventure with the spirited away adventurer and his three familiars, the Magickal wolf, the Pixie Dragon and the slime. As usual, recipes are... interesting (Apparently giant spider legs taste like crab) and we are introduced to a dungeon city with an elven Adventurers Guild guildmaster with an unhealthy obsession with dragons (Just like that one weird cousin we all have that is wayyy too much into Ferraris).

As always I highly recommend this series if you love Fantasy in a Japanese flavour.

[Cody Enos · Rating 3 out of 5]

I understand that this isn’t written well, but it’s my comfort read dag nabit! Sometimes I need a palette cleanser of cute animals eating food.

This volume includes more gods, a dungeon town/dungeon crawl, an unnecessarily annoying and creepy character, and of course Fel, Dora-chan, and Sui being Uber adorable while hungry.

Also, when Mukoda refers to them as his kids I 😭 every time.

[Wing999 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this one

Of the three books I read so far this one is my favorite, the MC finally developed a little bit of a back bone, after entering the dungeon which made the the book so much more enjoyable.

[Nicole Nieto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still an enjoyable story, though the battle scenes and the dungeon diving got a bit repetitive. I’m enjoying the little side stories where we get to see what’s happening with certain side characters and I’m looking forward to seeing how that develops

[Genielle Weber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious

I enjoy this series allot. It's a fun, easy, and enjoyable read. The story is light hearted for the most part, with a bit of seriousness for flavor. Add in it's unique characters and viola you have a good book!

[Jesus · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it

I really enjoyed the fact that all 3 familiars get along and that the gods have taken an interest in him. No matter what they say…I think the god of creation intentionally summoned mokohda to that world.

[Breanne Still · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this

I love how the main character is around my age, how he is realistically cautious and cooks food,he inspired me to cook, though sometimes I wish there were more descriptions in the book

[Russell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I started skipping the meal making here, but I like the Story part tho...

[Prince Lovi (Worded World) · Rating 4 out of 5]

very light

[cyndi french]

A great series

Love this worth reading and rereading. Just makes me laugh out loud. I will read the next as well .

[Lissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fun, easy read. This time featuring a proper, 30 floor dungeon!

[Ela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Que hambre 🤣🤣🤣♥️

[Wetdryvac · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very silly, and a lot of fun.

[MyDoRyS · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mukoda is told about a dungeon on the city of Dolan where he is taking the Earth Dragon to be butchered. @ new gods are introduced. There is also a follow-up about the "heroes" but I don't care much about those characters, so I hope they are removed from the anime series. Mukoda gets his first magic stove! They also meet the first party Iron Will again. It ends when they conquer the dungeon. Onto my next adventure, Happy Readings!!!

[s. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was action-packed!

This book is more action-packed than the ones before in this series. We'd usually get Fel and Sui killing their enemies/preys with one spell but this time, we see Fel, Dora and Sui actually fighting properly against numerous enemy bosses.

This book focused on dungeon-exploring and that was such a fun read! I'm glad it was written at length. It truly displayed how overpowered Mukohda's familiars are. It's also nice seeing Mukohda finally stepping into fights himself. He's slowly learning to defend himself too and not just always depend on his familiars to defend and protect him. With his Perfect Defense skill, he can take learning to fight slowly and surely until he can let his familiars rampage on as he watches them with mind at ease that he wouldn't need to call on Fel when he's attacked suddenly.

Things I'd love to note in this book are:
1) Elrand. This elf was such a funny guy to read! His obsession with dragons and how he pesters Mukohda about it. I couldn't help but laugh every time I read him. He's a funny guy, I like him.
2) Mukohda's "children". I love reading Mukohda calling his familiars his children. He cooks for them, bathes them and cares for them. Of course, he'd soon enough call them his children! Whenever I read that, I always find it endearing.

This was yet again a book full of food and adventures. It's always a joy to read. I can't wait to read what's next!

[Michael Ocheskey · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is getting ridiculous. I don't mind the premise of OP main characters as long as the story is character driven since an OP character removes any element of suspense or surprise from a story. However, the main character in this story is a weak, gutless man who never attempts to improve himself and always has his OP familiars do the work for him. The problems I have with the story are that the main character isn't likable, there is little to no character development, and everything that isn't related to food preparation is glossed over quickly.

This story reads like a recipe book instead of an adventure story. I trudged through the first three volumes hoping that the story would improve over time, but I give up. I cannot keep subjecting myself to this boredom.

[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

One tends to draw comparisons from the different forms of the same media, some people are irked by this, me personally I like to see which is best. Its nice ti think which form of execution is the best.

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some dungeon delving, but the guy just basically performs catering for the heavy lifters. More relaxing reading.