Tips for being a faster/better/more efficient chef?

[Landerlow]

I would like to hear about your expertise as a chef! Let's get some tips in here!

[Eight_Ball]

Two words. Pizza and R&D upgrades.

[El Stan]

Keep the Wiki handy, get in good with the Botanists and Medbay. If eating meat from a dead person is too weird for you, scare up some Clonexadone and blood for some nice synthmeat. You can make damn near anything out of what the Botanists grow except maybe wood.

[Landerlow]

The thing is, time.  Some things take ages to make, do they not?

[Eight_Ball]

Pizza is pretty quick and easy to make, if botany's good.

[Landerlow]

Is there a way to CREATE universal enzyme?

[owenowen101]

Keep the wiki open definitely. But here is what I do at the start when I go chef:

Setup

• Go into the bar and grab the cake hat and the salt/pepper shakers from the table.
• Fetch the buckets from garden at the back of the kitchen and and put 5u of universal enzyme in one. This is your 'cheese bucket' which you only use to collect milk from the cow. Keep this bucket on the floor by the back door so you don't get it mixed up.
• Set all your containers, beakers and buckets to a 5u transfer rate each to avoid over-adding reagents to recipes.
• Go to the botany window and ask them to plant ingredients for whatever it is you want to make. But always ask for wheat as you can do a lot with this. Suggest that they make anything they plant for you 'reharvestable' and hope they know what you mean by this. I like asking for white beats/sugar and cocoa to make lots of whacky sweets. If you want to help them out, one sugar cane seed can be found in the garden near arrivals, which isn't available in the seed vending machine in botany.
• Also ask botany for a plant bag so you can move stacks of produce from the fridge to the grinder in a couple of clicks. They can get these in the vendor to the left of the seed vending machine in botany.
• Use the request console on the wall near the grinder and ask for a monkey crate from cargo. You likely will be ignored but you can go down to cargo later when you've got some food done and and order it properly.

Food

• For quick and easy early food to keep people happy, add all the flour you have into your empty bucket and go over to the sink and spam click, filling it with water, until you not longer are producing dough balls. If you want to be thrifty with what dough you have, if you think botany are inept, then roll it all and cut it into dough slices and make plain spaghetti. Otherwise do something more interesting like making a birthday cake, using the hat you got from the bar earlier.
• Some people refuse to eat anything other than meat so make a couple of steaks with the meat you have and/or make some meatballs for spaghetti & meatballs.
• Use the rice to make rice pudding.
• The eggboxes are your fall-back. They're plentiful and its super easy to make fried eggs. Make these if people are nagging you for food.
• After you've got some room to breathe, start cooking whatever you like. Try making something interesting like a mountain of deep-fried donuts to make everyone fat or a lifetime supply of yum-yum batons and make that one security officer brick-it for a moment thinking that there are a load of stun-batons on the kitchen counter. Make sure cargo are ordering a monkey/wolpin/etc crate for you (for meat) and see if botany are making anything you asked them to make.

Other tips:

• Nag R&D for upgrades to your kitchen appliances. These are super important if you want to make a decent amount of anything.
• Don't be in the 2/3 proportion of chefs who end up going SSD after 10 minutes without making any food.

Edited May 10, 2017 by owenowen101

[Carter Green]

A couple quick tips.

 

1. If botany is on the ball with wheat, you'll want to feed it to your chicken until it won't eat anymore. It will lay eggs which you can leave alone for a few minutes that turn into chickens. Free and near infinite meat. Each chicken only makes 2 meat though.

2. If you want a mountain of cheese, put 5 or 10 units of universal enzyme into a container and ask the bartender to use his soda fountain for milk. Add milk to the container with your enzyme and a couple dozen clicks later... cheese city.

3. Maybe obvious, but never kill your goat. If space vines attack he is invaluable.

Edited October 28, 2017 by Carter Green
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[Streaky Haddock]

I like sandwiches. Bacon and Cheese Sandwiches for breakfast. Those junk plates people leave behind when eating spaghetti are useful too. You can combine disparate parts into a legitimately delicious sounding and filling meal. For example, combining eggs, bacon and fries on a plate will make an eggs-bacon-space fries meal, which you can the rename to something more appealing with a pen.

[Kraehe]

If botany is doing a decent job you can also ask them for some monkey cubes. They can make those with some biomass. Thats another easy meat source. 

Also, thanks for the info about the goat and the vines. I always killed it quite early in my shift. Guess that stops now ^^