Sushi Mat and other Quality of Life updates for the kitchen.

[Mitchs98]

I think it's very long overdue that the kitchen gets some love. It's by far my favorite job outside of medical but let's face it, it could stand to have some new things added/some things edited/added. Generally speaking most servers tend to just roll with the servers' base and perhaps tweak things very marginally and leave it at that, never bothering to update it because 'Hey, it's just food. If there's no chef they'll use vending machines.'. While this may be true for some not everyone wants to do that, many like the RP aspect of going up to the chef and chatting while stuffing their faces. They like the fact the food is real food in an RP sense and not some shitty overpriced box of raisins that stands a high chance at giving them cancer. That said! I have several ideas that I would like to present to the community. These would be very easy to code for the most part as it'd only be recycling code already in the game, I'd be willing to sprite the ones that I could for sure.

1. First off, Sushi. Not many people make it for various reasons. It's slower to set up to make, it's harder to maintain, and overall it's just harder to make. Thing is a lot of people enjoy it as it adds a better aspect to the game than a high end research station hiring a balding fat man to sling burgers and fries at you while staring at you like you're the weirdest thing to approach since that critter under his bed he had for breakfast. Right now the main issue of it is the fact you have to go into the crafting menu to make it and it takes AGES to make. By the time you could make enough sushi to feed the hoard of hungry apes at your desk you could of already cooked up 10 pizzas and satisfied their lust for food(or blood if you're truly that slow). That's where the Sushi Mat comes in. It'd be something that you could fold up and put in your bag when not in use or stash off to the side neatly. Once placed on the table you would either place the ingredients on the mat or 'put them into it' via a menu like the microwave and such. With the Sushi Mat you would get MORE THAN ONE ROLL OF SUSHI PER BOWL. Let's face it, unless you're a TERRIBLE sushi maker you will get more than one sushi roll per BOWL of rice. That's just a given. The kicker here is, you'd instead add more of whatever kind of sushi you're making. Say it's shrimp/Ebi. You'd add 4 shrimps, click the mat, and end up with a WHOLE sushi(I genuinely forget what the sushi rolls are called before cut up into individual servings). You can either leave it like this, or cut the thing and get 4 rolls of sushi. Done, bam, sushi in like 10 seconds. Toss it out to the hungry unwashed masses and continue on.
2. The Food Cart. Let's face it, it's sad and underused and really should just be replaced. Or, if you don't replace it, turn it into a proverbial catch all for kitchen supplies like our friend the Plant Fridge. Only, the plant fridge is for plant related items so in reality it's somewhat useless other than for the chef to get their grubby mits on the delicate plants within. This wouldn't so much be a new item as a few tweaks to an existing item. As it is now the thing rarely gets used and it's the most pointless thing in the kitchen. Simply allow it to store, almost infinitely like the plant fridge, items pertaining to food. Fish eggs, condiments, all forms of food items I.E Space Milk, Flour Sacks, Eggs, cut up fish, raw whole fish, and etc. This would allow chefs to prioritize talking with crew whilst making food instead of having to run all across the nation to assemble a burger. Yes there's ways to set things up for optimized cooking, but they're still clunky, and this would be better to have as a central go to instead of laying everything on tables everywhere.
3. This is really a tie on to #2, or if #2 isn't as viable as I think. Rather simple, re-tool and re-skin a plant bag into a Kitchen Bag, allowing a chef to cart around their supplies on their hip in an easy to access location. Same as the above, allow it to hold everything a chef might need though perhaps up to a limited capacity. This would of course disallow kitchen knives and so forth, only allowing actual food items or food containers. 
4. Fried Tomatos. You can cut up potatos and make fries, why not fried tomatos? Ever had one? No? Well you should, they're awesome. This could be a neat little treat for the chef to serve on the side amidst his normal food stuffs.
5. GLASS. For the sake of Nar'Sie, give the Chef a stack of glass to start out with. Not everyone would use it but those of us that love making seafood would. I'm sure everyone knows it can be a hassle some rounds to get your hands on glass to make the fish tanks required to start up your sushi/seafood restaurant. Mitigate that by simply letting the chef start off with glass. The bartender does and they rarely use it, why not the chef for whom it actually has a viable purpose?
6. Chef's personal Pet Vendor/Fish Vendor. Rather than having the collars and the like the chef would simply be allotted 2-3 fish kits and a selection of fish eggs for them to choose from easily, with carps already being able to be selected. Perhaps in the back room near the condimaster? Some unused space there and would only take up one tile, good place for it too.

I'll add on more if/when I think of stuff to add, but for now these are the top 6 best suggestions I can think of for the kitchen. Well, really top 5. The tomatoes were just a random idea I had. Feel free to state below anything you feel could be added to give the kitchen some much needed love.

[Buford]

1 hour ago, Mitchs98 said:

 

1. First off, Sushi.

YESSS. Sushi is my favorite food irl. Just went out for some with a few people yesterday evening (It's 3:00AM now)

[Mitchs98]

9 hours ago, Buford said:

YESSS. Sushi is my favorite food irl. Just went out for some with a few people yesterday evening (It's 3:00AM now)

They already have it. I'm merely suggesting a Sushi Mat to make it easier to actually make it.

[Buford]

1 hour ago, Mitchs98 said:

They already have it. I'm merely suggesting a Sushi Mat to make it easier to actually make it.

Yea I know.

[Streaky Haddock]

1) sounds neat.

2) I disagree. Food Cart just needs to be able to hold a lot more food.

3) It already exists. It's called a tray and makes a pleasing 'doink' sound when you use it to robust a brotherfucker.

4) Sure.

5) Nah. Just ask the Bartender or Engineering for some of theirs.

6) Or maybe just add a bunch of eggs & care kit to their meat closet or freezer.

[Mitchs98]

3 hours ago, Streaky Haddock said:

1) sounds neat.

2) I disagree. Food Cart just needs to be able to hold a lot more food.

3) It already exists. It's called a tray and makes a pleasing 'doink' sound when you use it to robust a brotherfucker.

4) Sure.

5) Nah. Just ask the Bartender or Engineering for some of theirs.

6) Or maybe just add a bunch of eggs & care kit to their meat closet or freezer.

2. The food cart is utterly useless, never gets used, and a table serves the same function. It should be edited or removed, honestly. I've never seen someone use it as it's rather impractical to leave the kitchen unattended to cart it around.

3. It holds a whopping grand total of 7 items. Therefore, no it does not exist. Trays also can't fit in backpacks and are rather large items as a whole.

5. Good luck with that! 9/10 you won't get it. Makes no sense to not give the chef some anyway if the bartender of all people gets some.

6. Vendor would be better. More organized. The kitchen doesn't need more clutter it needs less. The key thing here is Quality of Life upgrades, not updates that add more clutter to the kitchen.

[Streaky Haddock]

2) I use it! My only complaint with it is that it doesn't hold enough food. 

3) It's good enough for my purposes. It fits at the belt slot. And I really, really have to impress upon you the satisfaction of the 'doink' noise. It's a really high selling point.

5) I've had no problems, but our experiences differ.

6) Probably, but i'm just trying to work out where you'd fit one? And really they produce eggs like crazy once you get them going, so a vnedor doesn't FEEL necessary.

[Mitchs98]

1 hour ago, Streaky Haddock said:

2) I use it! My only complaint with it is that it doesn't hold enough food. 

3) It's good enough for my purposes. It fits at the belt slot. And I really, really have to impress upon you the satisfaction of the 'doink' noise. It's a really high selling point.

5) I've had no problems, but our experiences differ.

6) Probably, but i'm just trying to work out where you'd fit one? And really they produce eggs like crazy once you get them going, so a vnedor doesn't FEEL necessary.

2. Not sure how much it holds. Never used it as it's rather intuitive. Would be great if you could load it with a tray if the same functionality stays.

3. Eh, not saying to remove it. It adds a nice aspect. I'm mostly talking about using it to cart around food items to prepare the food rather than the food itself. Although the idea of a chef stuffing 50 cheeseburgers into a bag and running around the station tossing them around like a McDonalds commercial does amuse me.

5. Oh you'd be very surprised. People can be greedy lil pricks and do things just to ruin your round concept.

6. In the back, instead of that extra locker of chef gear. Or above the meat locker there's a space too. In the freezer. I know you don't need them yes, but it'd still be good to have for organization. Perhaps even allow chefs to be able to unwrench it and use it to re store fish eggs into it? My main complaint with fish is the tray prioritizes whatever is on the ground first, and thus will pick up fish eggs if you don't move them before you fish out fish.