Cooking

How to Begin

To begin cooking, visit <name> in the kitchen of <building>, located in the center of Ojaveda. Speak with her and you will be allowed to begin the introductory cooking quest. The purpose of this quest is two fold: to familiarizing you with the basics of cooking, such as using the Preparation Table and tools, and to give you the novice's cooking book. This book, "Working in a Kitchen," must be equip 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. There will be a later quest, given by the same lady, that will reward you with a more advanced cooking book.

Bug: You will be asked to grill meat on the grill, during the first cooking quest. The grills are the two cooking stations at the back of the kitchen. You will not be able left-click on them. You must directly right-click on them in order to interact with them.

Tools

There are many tools that chefs use, including the kitchen knife, masher, wooden spoon, and scoop. These tools are sold through multiple merchants. Only a few tools are located Ojaveda, and the more exotic ones, such as the rolling pin, are not even located in a city.

Fundamentals

Chemistry

Cooking in PlaceShift is very similar to simple chemical reactions: one or more ingredients are reacted together to create a product. The tools, books, and facilities used during the creation may be thought of as catalytic ingredients, in that they are required for the reaction but are not consumed. The formula for all recipes is:

Book + Tool + Facility + One or More Ingredients --> Book + Tool + Facility + Product

As you can see, neither the book, tool, or facility is consumed, only the ingredients are consumed. The result is a single product type. There may be multiples of that product type, such as measuring an apple jam into 50 scoops of apple jam, but those multiples will all be of the same type.

Culinary Reactions

All culinary reactions require a book, a facility, and one or more reagents, 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 create a reaction, 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 inside of the proper facility. There are many different types of facilities, from grills to kettles to even a sack that is in your inventory.

Each different type of reaction requires a specific tool and a specific facility. Over time you will memorize what tools and facilities are needed for what reaction types, as they will never change from one recipe to the next. For example, a cutting reaction will always required a preparation table and a kitchen knife, no matter what the ingredients are.

Once all of the reaction prerequisites are meet and the ingredients are placed in the proper facility, with the exception of a combination reaction, 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 Reactions

Some culinary reactions 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, there is no extra effort needed to progress down the chain; the longer the tuber is on the table, the more it will be processed.

Reaction Types

Crumble

• Required facility: 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 reaction chains.

Cut

• Required facility: preparation table
• Required tool: kitchen knife

When mashing, 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 facility: grill
• Required tool: none

When grilling, all ingredients must be placed in a grill and allowed time to process. There are no grilling reaction chains.

Heat

• Required facility: pot
• Required tool: none

When heating, all ingredients must be placed in a pot and allowed to time to process. Some reactions will have a chain, such as a water filled bucket, and others will not, such as noodles.

Mash

• Required facility: 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 reactions.

Measure

• Required facility: 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 reactions.

Mix

• Required facility: 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 reaction chains.

Panfry

• Required facility: iron skillet
• Required tool: none

When panfrying, all ingredients must be placed inside of a iron skillet and allowed time to process. There are no panfry reaction chains.

Recipes

Water

Measure one water filled bucket to create 28 water pouches.
Heat two water pouches to create one mug of hot water.
Heat seven water pouches to create one quarter pot of water.
Heat 14 water pouches to create one half pot of water.
Heat 21 water pouches to create one three quarter pot of water.

Heat

Water Filled Bucket

Full Pot of Water

Pot of Hot Water

Pot of Simmering Water

Pot of Boiling Water

Beginner Recipes

Sweet Tinga Tea

• Requirements
  • Tools
    • "Working in a Kitchen"
    • Pot
    • Wooden Bowl
    • Wooden Spoon
  • Ingredients
    • 2x Water Pouch
    • 2x Tinga Leaves
    • 1x Dash of Cinnamon
    • 1x Scoop of Strimptor
• Procedures
  1. Equip "Working in a Kitchen".
  2. Heat the two water pouches to create a mug of hot water.
  3. Combine the tinga leaves, mug of hot water, and dash of cinnamon to create a steeping tinga tea.
  4. Mix the steeping tinga tea to create tinga tea.
  5. Combine the tinga tea and a scoop of strimptor to create an unmixed tinga tea.
  6. Mix the unmixed tinga tea to create sweet tinga tea.