Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
I'm wondering if that cooking skill really is useless or if there's some underlying mechanism encouraging people to delevop also "useless" skills. Like there being two categories of skills and you can't use all points inside the useful category. Or perhaps cooking can be used as a fast alchemy skill.
Actually if you go back to episode 2.

Asuna was quite cold and distant in a way that is similar to how Kirito is acting now. Kirito giving Asuna some butter to use with the bread clearly surprised her with the taste. That particular event might have something to do with encouraging Asuna to develop cooking.