Cooking
Your Tools
Microwave
The Microwave is the Chef's (and unlucky prisoner's) choice of heating utensil, being able to cook everything from bread to pizza and pies, as long as you select the right cook time.
It has a menu layout similar to the grinder, with ingredients in the microwave on the left, and a selection of buttons on the right. You can select from a range of cooking times, spanning from Instantaneous to 30 seconds. Each recipe requires a different time in the microwave. If the ingredients or time are wrong, the ingredients in the microwave will either be spit out or become a burnt mess. If you want to cook multiple of the same food, simply multiply the number of ingredients and the cooking time to cook all of it at once.
Reagent Grinder
The chef's second most important tool next to the microwave. Turn wheat into flour, cocoa into cocoa powder, and watch as someone vaults the kitchen counter to grind up pills they found on the floor.
After loading in a beaker and whatever you want to grind, you can choose one of two settings, Grind and Juice. Grind deconstructs items into their base chemical components, while Juice turns an item into a specific liquid.
For example, grinding an apple will break it down into vitamin and nutriment. Juicing an apple will turn it into apple juice.
Electric Grill
The Electric Grill is another method of heating up raw meat and spaceshrooms, and can heat up to 4 objects at a time. Great for if you need to cook up lots of meat at once, or if Chemistry stole your microwave. The Electric Grill has three power settings:
- Low - 33% power draw. Heats up to 905K.
- Medium - 66% power draw. Heats up to 1517K.
- High - 100% power draw. Heats up to 2129K.
Even the lowest setting can cook anything you want, but higher settings will cook things a bit faster. Just be sure not to leave the power on, or else Engineering might have something to say about it.
Meat Spike
The meat spike is your primary way of obtaining more raw meat. Bipedal creatures such as monkeys, kobolds, and people cannot be butchered like most other animals. Instead, the dead or dying animal must be click-and-dragged onto a meat spike. When they're on the meat spike, you can use a knife to extract usable meat from them.
Freezers
Prevents meat placed inside from rotting. Great for if you want to keep some raw meat in your kitchen, or if your walk-in freezer is compromised. If you're desperate, you might even want to store dead bodies in there if you don't want them to rot.
The locker variant also has an electronic lock, which only someone with chef access can lock/unlock.
Lipid Extractor
A device that does not come with your kitchen, but must be researched and constructed by Science. Fat is extracted from any creature that is put in the lipid extractor until they become hungry. When enough is extracted, the lipid extractor generates raw meat.
Got any extra vitamin, nutriment, or protein lying around from grinding up food? eat it, step into the lipid extractor, and you can turn it into raw meat. You can even shove mice, monkeys, kobolds, or whatever else into the extractor to get some extra meat.
Your Supplies
Chef Locker
Almost every station has at least one. The chef locker contains:
Flour Bag x2
Sugar Bag x1
Milk Carton x2
Soy Milk Carton x1
Universal Enzyme Bottle x1
Salt Packet x3
Black Pepper Packet x3
Variant Cube Box x1
Box of FlutterSoft-brand Cloth x1 (Contains 10 cloth)
Emergency Crowbar x1
Mousetrap Box x2
Spray Bottle (Filled with water) x1
Vending Machines
Chefvend
Where most of your starting ingredients are located. The Chefvend contains:
Flour Bag x2
Cornmeal Bag x2
Sugar Bag x2
Salt Packet x4
Universal Enzyme Bottle x2
Hotsauce Bottle x1
Ketchup Bottle x1
BBQ Sauce Bottle x1
Vinegar Bottle x2
Olive Oil x2
Mayonnaise Tube x1
Variant Cube Box x1
Egg Carton x1
Milk Carton x2
Soy Milk Carton x1
Stick of Butter x3
Cheese Wheel x1
Raw Meat x6
Cutting the MNGR wire yields:
An egg carton filled with eggshells x1
box of donk-pockets x1
ice-cream sandwich x2
strawberry ice-cream sandwich x1
Plasteel Chef's Dinnerware Vendor
Where you can find your knives, cups, mugs, and other utensils. The Dinnerware Vendor contains:
Butcher's Cleaver x1
Kitchen Knife x5
Rolling Pin x4
Spoon x4
Fork x4
Paired Chopsticks x4
Bowl x10
Large Plate x10
Small Plate x10
Pie Tin x5
Muffin Tin x5
Skewer x5
Metamorphic Glass x5
Beaker x5
Large Beaker x5
Metal Pitcher x2
Mug x5
Black Mug x2
Blue Mug x2
Green Mug x2
Heart Mug x1
Metal Mug x2
Moebius Mug x1
#1 Mug x1
Rainbow Mug x2
Red Mug x2
Cutting the MNGR wire yields:
ChefDrobe
Where you can find extra chef clothes if you didn't start with the chef outfit you wanted, or if you've been reassigned as a chef, or if you want to pull a Ratatouille. The ChefDrobe contains:
Service Headset x2
Apron x3
Chef's Freezer Coat x2
Chef Jacket x1
Chef Uniform (pants) x1
Italian Moustache x2
Chef Uniform (skirt) x2
Chef's hat x2
Black Shoes x2
Chef Shoes x2
Chef Belt x2
Cutting the MNGR wire yields:
Happy Honk Dispenser
Only available on specific stations. The Happy Honk dispenser contains happy honk meals! And each one comes with its very own toy! (meal not included). The Happy Honk Dispenser contains:
Cutting the MNGR wire yields:
Cargo Restocks
Vendor Restock Boxes
Restock boxes can be inserted into their corresponding vending machines after the maintenance panel has been opened with a screwdriver. Adds the full contents of the vending machine to the vending machine. Vending machines have an inventory limit of three times its original stock.
- ChefVend Restock Box - $680
- Plasteel Chef's Restock Box - $2000
- Wardrobe Restock Box - $2480 (Restocks the ChefDrobe, Found in "Clothing Restock Crate")
- Happy Honk Restock Box - $2100
Kitchen Supplies Crate
Contains many basic ingredients used for cooking. Great if there are no botanists, or if Botany is too focused on growing weed to get you ingredients.
Contains:
Flour Bag x3
Sugar Bag x2
Rice Bag x3
Milk Carton x4
Soy Milk Carton x2
Egg Carton x2
Universal Enzyme Bottle x2
Box of FlutterSoft-brand Cloth x1
Getmore Bakemore Crate
An alternative supply crate containing baking ingredients.
Contains:
Flour Bag x3
Sugar Bag x2
Milk Carton x2
Egg Carton x2
Chocolate Bar x6
4no Raisins x4
Sweetie's Pistachios x4
Salt Packet x3
Box of FlutterSoft-brand Cloth x1
Kitchen Dinnerware Crate
Someone beak all your bowls? Want to make more than 5 pies at a time? The dinnerware crate has you covered, and it's significantly less expensive than a vendor restock.
Contains:
Spoon x2
Fork x2
Kitchen Knife x1
Bowl x4
Skewer x4
Pie Tin x4
Small Plate x4
Large Plate x4
Metamorphic Glass x4
Animal Crates
If you need livestock, be it for milk or their meat, you can order them from Cargo. Some animals useful to chef are:
- Cow Crate - $3200
- Chicken Crate - $4000
- Goat Crate - $1200
- Pig Crate - $1100
- Crab Crate - $3000
- Duck Crate - $4000
- Penguin Crate - $2100
- Goose Crate - $2100
Recipes
Base products
Mixing
Ingredient is not consumed during the reaction*
Rolling
Cutting
Cooked Meat
- Raw meat can be cooked by placing it in the microwave for any amount of time, or by heating it on the grill
Tacos & Nachos
- For custom tacos, see Taco Shell
Burgers
- For custom burgers, see Bun
Breads & Sandwiches
Pizzas
Pasta
Rice dishes
Soups
Potato dishes and fries
Skewers
- For custom skewers, see Skewer
Chilis
Salads
Pancakes & Waffles
Pies & Tarts
Cakes
Muffins
Cookies & Brownies
Sentient Food
Cotton Meals
- For custom cotton burgers, see cotton bun
Donk pockets
Syndicate Recipes
- Syndicate recipes require the use of a Donk Co. Microwave
Others
Condiments & Ingredients
Notes
- Multiple of the same recipe can be cooked at once by multiplying the ingredients & microwave time
- Uncooked animal proteins can be obtained by grinding raw meat