Burning food

[≋Aethain➳]

Is there any damn way to make people care about cooking and not letting the food burn? Even if I put the priority on 1, they let it burn.

[Victarion]

its because they load up all the smokers right before bed.

[mccoyco64]

Originally posted by Victarion:

its because they load up all the smokers right before bed.

<<<this.. i finally had enough and unassigned the smokers from my settlement ..

[RicWalker]

In my observation it also depends who put the food into the smoker/campfire. the minion is pretty good at keeping the stuff they put in from burning. but if the stuff is put in by another minion or the player, than they only retrieve it when it is burned.

[FPStewy]

I just make sure that I have a thrall with a cooking priority.

Just guessing but it could also be by design coz you do / or can have burnt food for compost. It could be one of the ways NPC's way of getting compost.

[VVeiner_Hund]

seriously they need to change behavior so that the entire cooking process, both adding and removing the meat is seen as a single task, and the NPC will not go to bed if they have a cooking task in queue.

[Mordegar]

Only use 1 dedicated cook or they will mess up the stewpots when someone else interferes with the pot. The pots will somehow bug out if the cook is not adding ALL ingredients at once!
They really need to patch that! I have some stewpots sitting idle over the whole day cause the 2 cooks interfere with eachother

[Shadow]

You can solve it with your storages for non cooked food (you should set up one storageplace with this) and cooked food (another storageplace). You also have to set cooking to priority 1 on one of your workers. Just select one Priority and set the Priority on food from the other workers to none (its the last entry after 9). This solved it for me