Pies take too long to cook?

[MyUrp1]

I'm wrapping up my Plains adventures and getting ready to face Yagluth, and I figured it's time to figure out how to make lox meat pies for the fight...

...and according to the wiki, it takes 50 seconds for the things to cook? That's kind of bizarre. How does everyone manage the tedium / boredom of sitting watching a stack of pies cooking? And why do the developers think we want to sit and stare at an oven?

Regular early game meat cooking isn't so bad because you can combine it with inventory sorting which usually takes a few minutes after unloading a day's worth of loot. But by the time you get to end game work, your kitchen probably isn't going to be in your warehouse... unless you designed it that way... just trying to figure out what to do.

Maybe the devs need to add an in-game Sudoku to work on while waiting for cooking to finish?

[Cerebral S'more]

Maybe you should try Serpent Stew instead. It's 80 health and 26 stamina. Lox Meat Pies are 75 health and 24 stamina. Also, don't forget fire resistance Barley Wine.

[seven]

By end game you should have the materials to make several ovens. I use 3, cooks 3 times as fast.

[starlight78sso]

Things like this is one reason I like mods, I have mods that the food wont burn, it just ejects it onto the ground or into a nearby chest if it has it already in there. Then i just load up my cooking stations, and go do other things.

[jonnin]

I only make annoying foods when fighting a boss, entering a new and tougher area, or desperation (early game, whats available). Annoying foods means multi-step, slow to produce stuff. Right now I exist off grilled bug, salad, and grilled lox, and will do so until ashlands unless they introduce more difficult enemy in some patch.

[Aurumworks]

Build two ovens. Then while you are preparing the uncooked meals, shove eight you've just made into the ovens and go back to preparing more. When the eight are done, quit preparing and shove eight more in. That should cut the time down you have to sit still and wait.

[knighttemplar1960]

Like others have said, by building multiple ovens.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2923007039
4 ovens result in 16 pies in 50 seconds. They don't spoil and they last 30 minutes each. 16 pies is 8 hours worth of play time.

[chewer]

You know you don't have to watch the oven while it bakes? You're free to do other stuff in the meantime, like repairing, or crafting, or cooking at the cauldron, or quickly portaling to your farm and back, or decorating your home, or whatever.

[MyUrp1]

Good point on multiple ovens; I already do that with smelting metal. For some reason it didn't occur to me to try that with the oven. Time to farm some more surtling cores!

On doing other things -- the trouble is that you do have to stick around the oven to listen for it being done. Which means you can't go harvest crops or cut down wood or sack Furling villages or all the usual things I do while I'm waiting for other things to happen.

[OctoberSky]

Kitchen central.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035492673

[Tangoblue]

While baking the HP pies I make several Stamina pies that don't require baking.

[bacon]

i have 5 ovens, which makes 20 food, which is an even 2 stacks of 10.

in that sense, oven =/= cauldron. you only need one cauldron, but you need as many ovens as you want to speed up the cooking.

[Gladi8er65]

*shrugs* I just wait for them to cook and not make a fuss about something that literally takes less than a minute.

We have already come to know that cooking food takes time, and walking away usually ends in coal, so having to stand there and wait for the pies to cook, is nothing i didn't already expect, and therefore doesn't even register as something that "takes too long", or is such an issue that it deserves it's own Forum thread about it... *shrugs*

[John]

My system?,
-make 20 unbaked things,
-put them in 5 ovens,
-then make 20 more unbaked things while they bake,
-they should be halfway done to being burned so get them out and put in the new batch
-make 20 more things
-again halfway through being burned, get them out, and put in the final batch.
-wait for a minute and get them out.

Done, enough food for like 8 hours

[bacon]

Originally posted by John:

My system?,
-make 20 unbaked things,
-put them in 5 ovens,
-then make 20 more unbaked things while they bake,
-they should be halfway done to being burned so get them out and put in the new batch
-make 20 more things
-again halfway through being burned, get them out, and put in the final batch.
-wait for a minute and get them out.

Done, enough food for like 8 hours

right, make more food between baking. assembly line.

[Kalysm]

Originally posted by MyUrp1:

...and according to the wiki, it takes 50 seconds for the things to cook? That's kind of bizarre. How does everyone manage the tedium / boredom of sitting watching a stack of pies cooking? And why do the developers think we want to sit and stare at an oven?

Bro your cooking a PIE not a solo piece of meat. Do something else while baking its not like you have to keep inserting a toothpick to check it.