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win game.
That being said, I was doing it in hard mode, and even with that I had to ride my Expertises pretty hard to win, I want to say I got about 200+ points from Expertises alone? And even then I only won by like 50 points. Was actually a pretty good time.
The cutting board is really handy for getting rid of poison that you don't have a practical way to get rid of otherwise, and also random bone fragments, and so on. I'm very fond.
Also, speaking of things I'm fond of doing, once I have the first dish in the slow cooker, I usually spend time stocking the shelves, rather than grabbing a few things, putting them in the pot, repeat (though, obviously, there's a degree of that you have to do, I tend to find stocking up ingredients means you don't have to remind yourself what you have each time you come back and all). The other thing, to me, is coming up with a 2nd expertise you can nail at least part of the time. As mentioned I took the "Use 5 of the same ingredient" one, though that one can be a biiit match dependant, it did proper work for me in the final, giving me 50 more points which gave me a clear win (along with the 150 points from the other Expertise).
I'd say, to a degree, once you have a decent method/rhythm for getting to about 150-200 points for your dishes on adverage you want to figure out how to work expertises into it. Obviously you'll need to get stuff over 200 points in the longer run (I dunno what it's like on normal, but on hard the final opponent tends to score 1015-1040 or so, at least in my experience), but it's a decent place to start.
Oh, also, any thing that gives fragile level 2 gems can be worthwhile to just throw in as space filler at the end. Since you're done with all your stirring, etc. they're just small amounts of free points, and you can make sure they don't combine if it'd screw up the judge's preferred elemental crystals. It's not a ton of points, but if you're just trying to push over the top (In paaaarrticular the last battle has that lovely 2x2 level 2 available, and if you add it on a cutting board or slow cooker or what have you at the end they can't combine to mess you up at all. Also use the fire guy to rack up massive points since you can easily put together practically 3 layers of level 3 fire crystals easily. The only trick with that one is it can make getting other elements of crystals in there hard if you're using my favored Expertise, but you can rush the dish, put 1 crystal of each element in, and throw it in the slow cooker, which lets you deliver it super early, clearing out processing space, and making the dish and absolute snap to put together giving you more time to work on the others.)
Of course, a lot of this is just what worked for me, and, again, I played exclusively on hard mode so there may be quirks that don't carry through to normal exactly. Oh, and as mentioned previously, you can totally abuse the Lantern Fruit trick for any element if you get sauces to change them over. Obviously 2 bottom layers of their favored element is going to lock that in more or less completely and get you a lot of points. I'll admit, my way is a bit more... Elaborate? than that, but that's personal play style, and probably doesn't score up points as quickly/easily. So long as you have easy sauce access anyways. If you have trouble getting the sauces some of the shenanigans get a little trickier, though, er, my way doesn't really use them. (Outside of spot fixing things with Ambrosia. That's totally a sauce >_>)
Vegetarian Cooking is best Cooking.
Master Expertise: Vegetarian, Journeyman Expertiese: Flavor, Orchid Blossom. Combo Pan, Slow Cooker, Cutting Board. Those 6 are what carried me most of the last few chapters.
If you feel likely you needed it, swap the Orchid Blossom for a Green Sauce.
Learn how to get sauces out of monsters on the map. In the case of the slimes you can get Blue Sauce which covers you for both Fire and Water dishes by using almost exclusively Lantern Fruit. While your Lanterns slow cook, you can be chopping mushrooms for the Earth dish. Just don't forget to drop in some main ingredient. That's how I lost on my first try.