[Hajime probably should have taken notes so as to improve his own meager cooking skills, but was instead completely involved in finding the bottle of ginger ale he'd hidden somewhere deep within the fridge because he didn't want to share with Kreutzer. (Because the last bottle is not to be shared.) He's hungrily eying the food now, and hey, might as well dig in.]

Thanks. It's not bad.

[This is about as complementary as he gets, so, yay for Earl.]