Cooking

Cook food in a kitchen. The food goes in a pot, the pot goes on, and a dish comes out.

cook

cook

Show the pot, the method, the heat and your pans.

cook add

cook add <food>
cook add <food>, <food>
cook add all

Put food from your pack in the pot. Say how it is cut after the name: whole, chopped or minced.

Example: cook add tuber minced

cook remove

cook remove <food>
cook remove all

Take food back out of the pot before you start it.

cook technique

cook technique
cook technique <method>

List the methods, or choose one for the next pot. Steep and press make drinks, which you pour or fill instead of plating.

cook heat

cook heat <low/medium/high>
cook heat ideal

Set how hot the fire runs. ideal picks the best heat for the method.

cook taste

cook taste

Taste the pot before you start it, to see how the dish would turn out.

cook start

cook start
cook start all

Put the pot on. Add all to put in everything you carry first.

cook adjust

cook adjust <food>
cook season <seasoning>

While the pot is on, add a liquid, fat or oil, something sour, or a seasoning to fix what the taste shows is wrong.

cook claim

cook claim

Collect the finished dish.

cook finish

cook finish <sour/fat/herb>

Give a newly claimed dish a last touch with a matching ingredient you carry. Then use finish <dish> to name and describe it.

cook cancel

cook cancel
cook cancel confirm

cook cancel gives the food back before the pot is on. After that, cook cancel confirm throws the pot out.

cook gear

cook gear

Show the pans you carry and the gear in the kitchen.

cook journal

cook journal

List the dishes you have made and the best of each.

cook save

cook save <name>
cook recipes
cook recipes <name>
cook recipe <name>
cook forget <name>

Save the last dish you cooked as a recipe. cook recipes lists your recipes, and cook recipes <name> reads one in full: every ingredient, how each goes in, and the finish. cook recipe cooks one again from what you carry, and cook forget deletes one.

appraise

appraise <dish>

Look a dish over, in your pack or standing here. Anyone can tell how long it will keep. A cook who knows food reads how well it was made, then what is wrong with it and what is right with it, and the best can tell what went into it. This works on a plate too.

cook card

cook card <name>
cook learn <card>

Write a recipe on a card you can give, lend or sell. Learn the recipe on a card you carry.

cook invite

cook invite <person>
cook dismiss <person>

Let someone here help with your pot. They can add food, adjust the pot and taste it, but only you can start it and collect the dish.

plate

plate <dish>
plate <dish> for <person>

Take one portion off a dish you carry or one standing in the room, and plate it for yourself or for someone else.

For ingredients, see help cultivation, help survival, and help scavenging.
For beer, wine and spirits, see help brewing.
For naming a finished dish, see help finishing.