Chef

Service
Chef
Chef	Roleplay Difficulty: Average Gameplay Difficulty: Easy Playtime Requirements: None Access: Kitchen, Maintenance Supervisors: Head of Personnel Subordinates: Service Worker Responsibilities: Ensure adequate crew-morale and -nutrition Guides: Food

Overview

Your job

As a Chef you will only feed your fellow crewmates and visitors. Possibly the mice, too. Hungry people get angry and arguable an angry crew is even more dangerous than a bored crew. To increase morale don't just serve nutri-bricks - make meals for all tastes and diets.

If you decide it is Deep-Frying-Day, they better like it. So what should you decide for? You see, there are a couple of options, but for the most part you will have to make do. Check what you have, decide what you want and order the rest from botany and cargo.

Your place

Your domain consists of the kitchen and a walk-in freezer. For obvious reasons botany and the bar should be nearby.

Your tools

• Knife: Cutting and butchering
• Rolling Pin: Used for flattening dough, essential for making pizza
• Grinder: Grind and juice ingredients (or non-ingredients) to your hearts content
• Cooking-machines
  • Microwave
  • Oven/Stove
  • Grill
  • Fryer

Your supplies

• Vending-machines and sometimes lockers with ingredients
• Lifestock for slaughtering / milking (goat/cow) / eggs (chicken, duh)
• Mousetraps to ward off mice or fatally antagonizing rats
• Animal-cubes that can be re-hydrated into live animals (unwrap and then add water)

The Basics

How to cook

Cooking is recipe-based. There are a lot of special cases but generally it works like this: 1. Mix Ingredients 2. Optional: Use knife/rolling pin 3. Heat in a cooking-machine (microwave etc.) As for the machines:

• The microwave and oven work by putting the food in and then dialing in the cooking-time. The time required scales with the quantity, meaning that if your meal takes 10 seconds in the microwave, you can cook two meals at once with 20 seconds.
• The grill works by turning it on using Alt-Leftclick (cycles multiple heat-levels). Then drop the items on the grill and it will start cooking
• The stove works like the oven but has no timer
• The fryer will fry anything that is put in but only one item at a time. Yes, you can also fry non-edible items or even live humans. Not that you would try that of course.
• The grinder needs a beaker added to function. Put the ingreedients in it and use the grind- or juice-option in the interface

Butchering

Butchering is messy and the resulting meat rots without cold. That is why butchering in the freezer is popular, since there is also a drain that will minimise the mess you make. Since the freezer is cold, make sure to bring winter-clothes to avoid dying in there. As for the process, there are two types of butchering:

• Normal animals can just be butchered on the ground
• Humanoids (including monkeys and kobolds) on the other hand need to be dragged onto a meatspike first.

Hygiene

Don't leave food on the floor and keep meat cold in the freezer (either walk-in or portable). That is about it. Otherwise the meat can spoil and vermin can eat your buffet. Mousetraps can work wonders and a resourceful chef can use the resulting meat for burgers.

Lifestock

When fed(usually with wheat from botany) Cows/Goats can be milked (using a container such as glass/bucket) and chicken lay eggs. Just make sure to keep them in a pen so they neither escape nor eat your meals. If you leave the eggs unattended (without storing them into containers) new chicken can hatch.

Race-Diets

Not every race can digest every food. Most notably (and most relevant) mothpeople can only digest fibre-based foods, meaning that you can feed them a hat, which however is not sufficiently tasty. Don't worry: You don't need to learn all diets, the customers will tell you. Just don't be surprised when someone asks for raw meat.

Common recipes

Since the full list of recipes can be overwhelming here is a minimalist list of "classics":

• Bread
  • Mix 15u flour + 10u water = Dough
  • Cook 10s in oven
  • Cut into slices with knife
• Burger
  • Mix 15u flour + 10u water = Dough
  • Cut with knife = dough slices
  • Heat dough-slices in oven for 5s each = Buns
  • Cut Bun
  • (Repeatable) Put anything on lower bun
  • Add top bun
• Sausages
  • 5u UniversalEnzyme(can be reused) + 1 organ
  • Grind in grinder = raw sausage
  • Heat on grill
  • (optional) Put it on a bottom bun(see burger) to turn it into a hotdog
• Pizza
  • Mix 15u flour + 10u water = Dough
  • Flatten with rolling ping
  • Follow specific pizza-recipe
  • Cut into pieces with knife

Roleplaying

• You are not a machine - take the time to talk to your customers
• Be friendly and try to accomodate culinary requests
• You are not confined to the kitchen. Feel free to serve food using the food-carts elsewhere on station
• Service workers can help out by delivering food to other departments. Why not provide a last meal to the prisoners?
• The chaplain loves garlic foods and garlic accessories for odd reasons
• Surprise the captain with extraordinary meals... plan ahead and request from cargo early
• Ensure your food-counter is nice and orderly so the crew can appreciate the diversity of available food
• Feel free to juice some apples or provide plain water on the side when serving salty meat. Avoid serving alcohol without knowledge/permission of the bar though.