The stove seems too slow

[Capnbludd]

I'm trying to keep a variety of cooked items in the fridge, but it seems like I'm stuck replenishing the first thing cooked because cooking is so slow. I'm only trying to keep 9 of each at time with 7 people. I really shouldn't need multiple stoves.

[Handbanana]

As their cooking skill increases they will cook faster. Also the electric stove is quite a bit faster. You may also want to change that to an even number because some of the quick recipes produce two products so having at an odd number screws up then timing.

They also cook in the order of which the crafting station is listed. So whatever is on top gets cooked first and if all your people eat a meat stew they have to cook 7 replacements before they will move on to whatever is further down the list. You also have to take into consideration the travel time. They have to deliver the cooked meal to storage and get thew new resources and bring it back to the stove. Are your storage locations directly adjacent to the cooking spot ?

9 of each meal is quite excessive also. Completely unnecessary really. If you are including all types of meals including chefs there are about 20 total different cooked meal types so you are trying to store 180 meals for 7 people.

Either way whoever you have as your cook will pretty much only ever be doing cooking for the most part. They will have very little extra time to do anything else so just keep that in mind.

[wcbarney]

I agree completely with Handbanana -- if variety is what you're after, then set up your stove to cook until only 1 of each item is in the inventory. That way, the cook will get further down the list of available meals before having to start at the top again.

[Capnbludd]

Good points, I'll try them. thanks.

[Bjørn]

Also remember to use 2 cooking stoves, even if you only have 1 person cooking.

Some of the cooking process for the higher 'tier' meals involves just heating it, without any actual cooking taking place (like oven dishes). During this time the stove will be unavailable, and the chef will look for other tasks to do.

If there is another stove, they will prepare a new meal on that instead of going off to plant a tree or something The they will go to the first stove when they're done with the second, etc...

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Originally posted by Bjørn:

Also remember to use 2 cooking stoves, even if you only have 1 person cooking.

Some of the cooking process for the higher 'tier' meals involves just heating it, without any actual cooking taking place (like oven dishes). During this time the stove will be unavailable, and the chef will look for other tasks to do.

If there is another stove, they will prepare a new meal on that instead of going off to plant a tree or something :rufussmile: The they will go to the first stove when they're done with the second, etc...

Ow is this why they sometimes leave "unfinished object"

[paoweeotter]

In 2 corners of my base near the gates I have a small fridge/room with dried meat/sweet syrup/berries. Food that can’t spoil. Also like (ale, wine doesn’t spoil when indoors ). People grab a bite as they head out to mine or hunt or when they get back usually is when they’re most hungry . Gives me the food variety buff. Back in my kitchen they eat the same 2-3 cooked meals only

[Literally Trash]

As their cooking skill increases they will cook faster. Also the electric stove is quite a bit faster.

So I've been wondering about this, I can't find any info on the speeds of the different stoves, I assumed electric would be faster like in rimworld but I don't see any info about it in the game. Is this 100% for sure? If it is I definitely want to switch

[Roosty]

Originally posted by Literally Trash:

As their cooking skill increases they will cook faster. Also the electric stove is quite a bit faster.

So I've been wondering about this, I can't find any info on the speeds of the different stoves, I assumed electric would be faster like in rimworld but I don't see any info about it in the game. Is this 100% for sure? If it is I definitely want to switch

I'm wondering this as well. The electric stove doesn't actually seem faster

[Jaggid Edje]

The electric stove is the same speed. For cooking and crafting, the game doesn't even have built-in parameters defined to make a device faster than another device. The only such definition that exists is specific to researching and research speed.

Could still be done via direct code, I imagine, but the default game without mods has no varying craft (or cook) speed by device. Hopefully they add it, along with an electric tailoring bench, in a future update.

[Cotaks]

Originally posted by Capnbludd:

I really shouldn't need multiple stoves.

Yes you need multiple stoves!!!!

Pie is a 2 step process, prepare dough then cook in oven, while in the oven your char is idle waiting for it to finish, if you have a second stove he/she will get ingredients for that and start a new reciepe.

So per cook you actually need 2 stoves.

You can solve this by limiting what you cook, 1 stove is enough if you just make grain portridge and veggie/meat stew (the 3 basic reciepes). You then only have to farm grain and mushrooms. easy peasy.