Cutting - results preview badly needed

[Yurikano]

After playing for some time (career mode finished) I can only come to conclusion that it is unrealistically hard currently to cut things into required size (weight) and cutting because of this becomes one the most (if not the most) annoying, time consuming and wasteful activities of them all.

I think if cutting process (holding a knife) showed not only the red cut line, but also a preview of results, it would improve the game significantly.

Dear developers, please consider adding a tooltip like this that updates when knife is moved or rotated:

https://i.imgur.com/XAKJRj9.png

Thanks.

[Wilgefortz]

Would be great. Cutting always pisses me off

[Yurikano]

Seriously, this is probably the biggest issue right now.

Take the "Fast Beef Stroganoff over Fusilli" recipe for example.

Cut Beef Chuck [150g] into Pieces [50g]. Somehow you are supposed to cut 150g from a 1kg product first, and then cut the 150g into 3 equal pieces, without any way to measure the cuts in the process.

So right now the only way to achieve this is to repeatedly cut and throw away pieces that are not very close to 50g which results in a huge waste.


"Bad cutting technique" ? More like "bad cutting user interface".

[Wilgefortz]

Originally posted by Yurikano:

Seriously, this is probably the biggest issue right now.

Take the "Fast Beef Stroganoff over Fusilli" recipe for example.

Cut Beef Chuck [150g] into Pieces [50g]. Somehow you are supposed to cut 150g from a 1kg product first, and then cut the 150g into 3 equal pieces, without any way to measure the cuts in the process.

So right now the only way to achieve this is to repeatedly cut and throw away pieces that are not very close to 50g which results in a huge waste.


"Bad cutting technique" ? More like "bad cutting user interface".

Yeah, or cut 80g mozzarella into 5 pieces (16g). It's not even possible to cut a sphere into 5 equal pieces with knife.
Cutting is the biggest problem right now.

[ShaddowThief]

if you hold shift while cutting it will hold the food item. keep it held until you are done cutting the whole thing.

[Yurikano]

Originally posted by Elusaphi:

if you hold shift while cutting it will hold the food item. keep it held until you are done cutting the whole thing.

This does not help solving the issue to which this thread is dedicated - the inability to precisely cut products to avoid "Bad cutting technique" complaints from cutting a 150g potato into 50/30/70 pieces instead of 50/50/50 and "Wrong amount of product" for serving 79g of bread instead of 70g.

[PyroFalkon]

I agree with all this, but since the addition of being able to set our own menus, I use the prep phase time (and maybe the cleaning phase time) to help with this. If I know there's a specific recipe that requires specific cuts, I'll usually only keep one or two of those recipes on the menu for that day, then just spend the morning cutting up whatever is giving me trouble. The first time I did it was with whichever recipe features potatoes and feta, because cutting 400g feta into 12g and 13g pieces was obnoxious. I wound up with a massive bowl (the red plastic ones) of feta, and I picked out pieces exactly to spec so I could five-star the meal.

That said, I used that strategy ONLY so I could pop the five-star achievement. After I got it, I didn't give a toss what size feta I was using, as long as I was close; unless I'm shooting for the achievement, a four-star is good enough for me during the time crunch, haha

Still though, if there WAS a preview option that would be nice. Or, maybe even a selector switch on the auto-cutter, so we can toss something in and set it for fine cutting, medium cutting, or large cutting. Just a thought.

[gisele86]

Another vote here for the preview, I think it would definitely make the game even better...it is time consuming and frustrating to try to get the right sizes for recipes, if there were a preview it would just become a strategic part of cooking like timing cooking to finish around the same time, which is (imo) way better. If it were an option one could turn on or off, it would preserve that element of the game for the people who prefer it without.

[gisele86]

Originally posted by PyroFalkon:

Still though, if there WAS a preview option that would be nice. Or, maybe even a selector switch on the auto-cutter, so we can toss something in and set it for fine cutting, medium cutting, or large cutting. Just a thought.

Oh my gosh yes a selector on the auto-cutter would be AMAZING as an option if the preview isn't viable, love it

[screaminidiot]

Yeah, if it told you how many grams both pieces will be before you make the slice that would be awesome.

[Morri]

This is a GREAT idea. I ♥♥♥♥ up so many dishes for having the incorrect amount it's not funny anymore. Especially when the things i have to slice are irregularly shaped.

[Remedy]

Not only this, but has anyone else had items just not cut? I was trying to cut armadillo meat in the shelter expansion and after cutting it once, it wouldn't let me cut the piece in half again. It was literally flying off the cutting board instead lol.

[PyroFalkon]

Haha, yes, all the time. Although in a way I kind of hope that particular jank isn't fully patched out. The nonsense physics is part of the fun to me!

But yeah, I wouldn't mind -- maybe as another possible solution -- we can have a SMALL knife to "trim" food, sort of like a bladed version of the new pipette for precision measurements, I don't know. Just throwing it out there, haha

[Yurikano]

Originally posted by Velvette:

Not only this, but has anyone else had items just not cut? I was trying to cut armadillo meat in the shelter expansion and after cutting it once, it wouldn't let me cut the piece in half again. It was literally flying off the cutting board instead lol.

Yes, trying to cut off a very small part (like 5g) of something often fails.

[Remedy]

Originally posted by Yurikano:

Originally posted by Velvette:

Not only this, but has anyone else had items just not cut? I was trying to cut armadillo meat in the shelter expansion and after cutting it once, it wouldn't let me cut the piece in half again. It was literally flying off the cutting board instead lol.

Yes, trying to cut off a very small part (like 5g) of something often fails.

What's funny is I was trying to cut a 50g piece in half so about a 25g piece, but it still wouldn't let me. Tried like 5 times and even tried off the cutting board but nope!

[Joseph Sneed]

+1