The girls being so surprised about meat being crumbed...
"Never seen something fried in oil before" WHAT?
The whole needing magic to get the fire hot enough to fry stuff was just as stupid.
If you want characters to make cute faces while eating that's fine but the writing in this is just braindead.
Is the light novel this bad?
@GerryCerryBery Yeah, that made me curious too. Looked it up and it is possible and in fact there is video of someone frying in a cast iron pan over a campfire. Plus, fried food existed for ages before modern stoves. Chinese cooking in woks and deepfrying most often uses a wood fire as well.
I imagine magic or charcoal or better stove design than the one he was shown as using would have a better heat output than a wood fire though.