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You may want to adjust what your dwarves are allowed to cook. For example, your dwarves may happily cook away all the [[seed]]s you need for planting, or use all your [[drink|booze]] as ingredients, a good way to create [[fun]] in the early stages of the fortress. Additionally, cooks seem to prefer some of the worst ingredients (single units of low-value materials like [[tallow]]). To suppress the cooking of certain items (such as booze, seeds or tallow) go to the status screen ({{k|z}} key) and then go to ''Kitchen''. Every cookable and/or brewable item in your fortress will be listed. Once you allow or forbid the cooking or brewing of some kind of product, it will be used accordingly. Note that any cooking jobs in progress may be canceled if you disallow one of the cook's chosen ingredients. | You may want to adjust what your dwarves are allowed to cook. For example, your dwarves may happily cook away all the [[seed]]s you need for planting, or use all your [[drink|booze]] as ingredients, a good way to create [[fun]] in the early stages of the fortress. Additionally, cooks seem to prefer some of the worst ingredients (single units of low-value materials like [[tallow]]). To suppress the cooking of certain items (such as booze, seeds or tallow) go to the status screen ({{k|z}} key) and then go to ''Kitchen''. Every cookable and/or brewable item in your fortress will be listed. Once you allow or forbid the cooking or brewing of some kind of product, it will be used accordingly. Note that any cooking jobs in progress may be canceled if you disallow one of the cook's chosen ingredients. | ||
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| + | Cooking with alcohol is recommended (assuming you have enough left for your dwarves to drink) because alcohol typically has large stack sizes (resulting in larger stacks of prepared meals), and because there are fewer types of alcohol (compared to other foods) and all dwarves have a [[preference]] for one type of alcohol (resulting in a better chance of happy [[thought]]s while eating). One method to include a limited amount of alcohol in your meals is to create a small (one or two tile) food [[stockpile]] next to your kitchen that only allows types of alcohol that your fortress has in large quantity, and set it to "take" from your larger drink stockpile. | ||
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| + | Ideally, you want to combine four different ingredients in each meal to maximize the chance of a dwarf experiencing a happy [[thought]] due to a [[preference]]. Unfortunately, when left up to your cook, you'll likely end up with an endless string of [[tallow]] roasts. To enforce variety, you can create a series of single-tile, barrel-less "feeder" [[stockpile]]s, each of which allows a different type of (cookable) food, all set to "give" to your kitchen | ||
==Storage== | ==Storage== | ||
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A kitchen is operated by a dwarf with the cooking labor enabled. It is used to cook prepared meals and render fat from butchered animals into tallow. Cooked meals rot more slowly when placed in a stockpile, but any seeds from cooked plants are lost.
Meal value is a sum of values of its cooked ("minced") igredients added to preparation quality modified base value of 10. So even a novice cook can greatly increase the value of raw ingredients.
Cooking large stacks of common ingredients with small stacks of high-value ingredients results in a large stack of high-value meals. Cooking meals applies a quality modifier to each ingredient, which may drastically increase the food's value.
Eating the meal will rise dwarf mood only if at least one of ingredients is preferred by that dwarf.
Types of meals
There are three different types of food to be cooked:
- Easy meal will use two ingredients and will result in biscuits.
- Fine meal uses three ingredients and will result in stew.
- Lavish meal uses four ingredients and will result in roasts.
Better meals result in larger stacks of higher-value food, but require more hauling, take longer to produce and provide slower experience gains for your cook. Also, with a greater variety of materials in the prepared meal, there is a higher probability a dwarf will get something he likes, giving the eater a happy thought.
Using Liquid Ingredients
At least one stack going into a prepared meal must be a solid item. If you have only booze, milk, and syrup, your cooking jobs will get cancelled. However, a single plump helmet can be cooked with ten dwarven wine, ten dwarven milk, and ten dwarven syrup to make 31 +Plump Helmet Roast+ without issue.
What to cook
You may want to adjust what your dwarves are allowed to cook. For example, your dwarves may happily cook away all the seeds you need for planting, or use all your booze as ingredients, a good way to create fun in the early stages of the fortress. Additionally, cooks seem to prefer some of the worst ingredients (single units of low-value materials like tallow). To suppress the cooking of certain items (such as booze, seeds or tallow) go to the status screen (z key) and then go to Kitchen. Every cookable and/or brewable item in your fortress will be listed. Once you allow or forbid the cooking or brewing of some kind of product, it will be used accordingly. Note that any cooking jobs in progress may be canceled if you disallow one of the cook's chosen ingredients.
Cooking with alcohol is recommended (assuming you have enough left for your dwarves to drink) because alcohol typically has large stack sizes (resulting in larger stacks of prepared meals), and because there are fewer types of alcohol (compared to other foods) and all dwarves have a preference for one type of alcohol (resulting in a better chance of happy thoughts while eating). One method to include a limited amount of alcohol in your meals is to create a small (one or two tile) food stockpile next to your kitchen that only allows types of alcohol that your fortress has in large quantity, and set it to "take" from your larger drink stockpile.
Ideally, you want to combine four different ingredients in each meal to maximize the chance of a dwarf experiencing a happy thought due to a preference. Unfortunately, when left up to your cook, you'll likely end up with an endless string of tallow roasts. To enforce variety, you can create a series of single-tile, barrel-less "feeder" stockpiles, each of which allows a different type of (cookable) food, all set to "give" to your kitchen
Storage
Individual types of prepared meals are not listed in the middle column or right column of the stockpile menu for the Food category. The switch for allowing or banning prepared meals in a stockpile is displayed underneath the right column and toggled by pressing the u key.
The size of a prepared food stack varies according to the sum of all ingredient stacks; with large input stacks your kitchen will create a stack of prepared meals that is too big to fit into a barrel. If you want to designate a stockpile as the destination for your kitchen's output, be sure that the number of barrels allowed in the stockpile is lower than the number of squares in the stockpile. That way there will be a few non-barrel squares for your haulers to deposit overly large stacks of prepared meals. Given that food left in the open will attract flies, causing unhappiness in dwarves who encounter them, it may be best to store prepared meals in an area of less traffic than the rest of a food stockpile. You may also "break" large stacks into smaller stacks (for a fee) by trading them to a caravan and then purchasing them back.
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