Cooking
How to Begin
To begin cooking, visit Archilaya Gurpleferd at her bakery in the Arena. You may have to run a quick errand before you are allowed to begin the introductory cooking quest. You will be given the first of four cookbooks, The Art of Baking, and asked to prepare one of a selection of dishes. As with all crafting, this book must be equipped in your mind slot during this quest; this may be done by opening up your inventory and dragging the book to the equipment slot that has a picture of a brain. As you advance, you will receive the rest of the cooking books - Meat and Stew Recipes from Jomed, The Pastry Chef Book from Orchibaly, and finally Dishes with Fishes from Reffitia.
Tools
There are many tools that chefs use, including the kitchen knife, masher, wooden spoon, and scoop. These tools are obtained through merchants, or as a reward for completing a quest. Different tools are available in different cites, so be sure to check what the merchants have to offer.
Fundamentals
Culinary Actions
All culinary actions require a book, a piece of equipment, and one or more ingredients, and produce one or more of a single product type. Sometime tools are needed, such as when mashing; sometimes no tools are needed, such as when heating.
To complete an action, you must first equip the proper book in the mind slot. To do this, open the inventory window and drag the desired book into the equipment slot that has a picture of a brain. If you have a modified user interface, this brain picture may have been changed to something else. After the proper book is equipped, you must equip a tool if one is necessary; most likely this will be something like putting a kitchen knife in one of your hands. Finally, all of the necessary ingredients must be placed in the proper piece of equipment. There are many different types of equipment, from the grill to a pot to the preparation table.
Each different type of action requires a specific tool and specific equipment. Over time you will memorize what tools and equipment are needed for what action types, as they will never change from one recipe to the next. For example, a cutting action will always require a preparation table and a kitchen knife, no matter what the ingredients are.
Once all of the action prerequisites are met and the ingredients are placed in the proper piece of equipment, with the exception of a combination action, you must wait for time to pass to allow the ingredients to be processed. Just as it takes time to boil water and cut a carrot in real life, so too does it take time to do the same actions in PlaneShift.
Chaining Actions
Some culinary actions are able to be chained. For example, using a preparation table and a kitchen knife, a pungent tuber may be cut into a sliced pungent tuber, then into a diced pungent tuber, and finally a minced pungent tuber. Once the proper tools are used and the pungent tuber is on the table, just continue to click the "Use" button to progress down the chain.
Action Types
Bake
- Required equipment: Oven
- Required tool: none
When baking, all ingredients must be placed in an oven and allowed time to process. There are no baking action chains.
Combine
- Required equipment: any container
- Required tool: none
When combining, place all ingredients in the same container, then press the "Combine items in container" button.
Crumble
- Required equipment: Preparation Table
- Required tool: none
When crumbling, all ingredients must be placed in a preparation table and allowed time to process. There are no crumbling action chains.
Cut
- Required equipment: Preparation Table
- Required tool: Kitchen Knife
When cutting, a kitchen knife must be equipped in either hand, and all ingredients must be placed in a preparation table and allowed time to process. Some reactions will have a chain, such as pungent tubers, and others will not, such as apple pie.
Grill
- Required equipment: Grill
- Required tool: none
When grilling, all ingredients must be placed in a grill and allowed time to process. There are no grilling action chains.
Heat
- Required equipment: Pot
- Required tool: none
When heating, all ingredients must be placed in a pot and allowed to time to process. Some actions will have a chain, such as a water-filled bucket, and others will not, such as noodles.
Mash
- Required equipment: Preparation Table
- Required tool: Masher
When mashing, a masher must be equipped in either hand, and all ingredients must be placed in a preparation table and allowed time to process. There are no mashing chain actions.
Measure
- Required equipment: Preparation Table
- Required tool: Scoop
When measuring, a scoop must be equipped in either hand, and all ingredients must be placed in a preparation table and allowed time to process. There are no measuring chain actions.
Mix
- Required equipment: Wooden Bowl
- Required tool: Wooden Spoon
When mixing, a wooden spoon must be equipped in either hand, and all ingredients must be placed inside of a wooden bowl and allowed time to process. There are no mixing action chains.
Panfry
- Required equipment: Iron Skillet
- Required tool: none
When panfrying, all ingredients must be placed inside of an iron skillet and allowed time to process. There are no panfry action chains.
Equipment
Grill
Iron skillet
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Oven
Pot
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Preparation table
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Wooden bowl
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