Chef
Chef
Superiors: Head of Personnel
Difficulty: Easy
Guides: Guide to Food, Martial Arts
Access: Kitchen
Duties: Make food, feed the crew. That's it.
Departmental Head
Head of Personnel
| Guide to Food • | Guide to Drinks • | Hydroponics • | Station Economy • | Guide to the Library • | Service SOP |
As the Chef (also known as Cook, Butcher, or Culinary Artist), it's your job to provide quality food for the crew and keep them fed. Pretty easy to know what you are doing.
Note: Whilst the gibber accepts humans, serving them is frowned upon. You might leave it up to the Coroner.
Equipment
The chef is outfitted with plenty of kitchen related utilities, and hardware.
- A Dinnerware Vendor that dispenses trays, plates, cups, and knives.
- Privacy shutters, for privacy or other things.
- Eggs, Meat, Flour, Sugar, Soy Milk, and Milk.
- One Cow, one Chicken, and one Pig.
- A Rolling Pin and a Knife.
- An apron and a Chef's Hat.
- 2 Meat Spikes
- A Gibber.
- A Bottle of Universal Enzyme.
- A Food Cart.
- A CondiMaster.
- A Smart Fridge.
- A Blender/Juicer.
- A Food Processor.
Kitchen Containers
Kitchen containers are items that are either used by themselves or with a kitchen machine in order to prepare food. Most food recipes start with placing ingredients and reagents on one of these containers, before transferring the container to a machine for cooking.
| Cooking Containers | |||
| Prep Bowl
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Mostly used for making salads. | Cutting Board
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Used for recipes which consist of combining items by hand, such as hamburgers and sandwiches. |
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| Cooking Pan
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Used for stovetop recipes for frying, such as fried eggs. | Cooking Pot
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Used for stovetop recipes like stews, soups, and for boiling noodles. |
| Grill Grate
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Used for grilling recipes such as grilled steak and cutlets. | Mixing Bowl
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Used in the ice cream mixer for desserts such as ice cream and popsicles.. |
| Sushi mat
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Used for creating sushi rolls and other sushi. | ||
Kitchen Machines
There are many machines in the kitchen that you can use to prepare food. Most of these machines are meant to be used with one of the containers above. Many of these machines have multiple surfaces, allowing you to prepare more than one recipe at a time.
| Machine | Usage |
| Grill
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Uses grill grates to grill food. Grills require wooden planks as fuel in order to operate. Upgrades to grills increase the amount of food created per recipe, as well as increasing the amount of wood storage and decreasing the rate at which it burns wood. Each of the two grill's cooking surfaces has separate alarm and temperature settings. |
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| Stovetop
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Uses cooking pots and pans for various fried and boiled recipes, among other things. Stovetops have four burners, allowing multiple pots and pans to be used at once. Each burner has its own alarm and temperature setting. |
| Oven
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Used for baking food in oven pans. Ovens only have one chamber, with an alarm and temperature setting. |
| Deep Fryer
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Used for deep frying food, and possibly other things that should or should not be deep-fried. Deep friers have two baskets, each with its own alarm. |
| Ice Cream Mixer
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Used for creating frozen and cold desserts. Ice cream mixers have one chamber, with an alarm. |
Cooking and You
As chef, you have the ability to create over 400 different kinds of meals. You can find most of these recipes either in the Guide to Food or in the recipe app on your PDA (if you do not have the app, the cartridge for it is available in the ChefDrobe).
Most recipes you find in the Guide to Food have steps that must be followed in order. Once you have performed all the necessary steps, the meal will be created.
To use cooking machines, Ctrl-Click the part of the machine you're cooking with to set its time, temperature, and to activate it.
Note that depending on the machine, there may be multiple burners or cooking surfaces, each with its own time and temperature setting.
Be careful not to leave food cooking for too long, or the machine might catch on fire!
The Food Processor can be used to process certain foods, such as grinding up meat into ground meat, and the All-In-One Grinder will juice or grind anything you put into it so long as you use the correct setting. You also have a CondiMaster to separate and identify anything you produce with your blender. Extra Universal Enzyme can be ordered from food crates available at Cargo.
You can cut various dishes with the Kitchen Knife, such as Cheese Wheels and Pizzas.
Hydroponics
Botanists can grow a variety of crops and are important for providing many of the ingredients you will need to cook, harvest plants are generally placed in the Smart Fridge. Most plants can be used as either as ingredients in recipes or processed into a variety of sauces. It's always a good idea to work closely with the Botanist and let them know what plants you need.
Animals
Monkeys, Wolpin, Farwa and other simple mobs can be harvested for meat by placing them on the meat hooks in the freezer, or by using the gibber. To use the gibber, grab a mob, and drag them to it. Once they have been placed inside, turn the gibber on. Many mobs, however, must be butchered by hand. A much messier process. To do so, hold a knife on harm intent, click on a dead mob, and wait. Mobs can also be placed onto the meathook by grabbing the mob via grab intent, and clicking the hooks. Helpful for keeping them in place. Extra cows can be ordered from the Quartermaster and can be butchered. They can also be milked with a bucket, but require feeding in order to do so. Chickens will also produce eggs when fed, which if left alone for long enough will hatch into new chickens.
To feed an animal, simply click on them with wheat in your active hand.
To learn more about fish, check out the fish page!
Blending/Grinding
Most foods contain a basic element known Nutriment. Nutriment is what nourishes you and heals your injuries when you eat. Though food might not heal you as quickly as the doctor can - or from the more exotic dangers of the station - it can often take care of minor injuries. Blending and grinding is an important part of your work, and is vital for the kitchen to function throughout the duration of the shift.
Some foods may also contain plant-matter or protein, which work similarly to nutriment but can't be used as a replacement in recipes.
Frying
Practically any food can be placed into the fryer and deep fried, even some things that aren't regularly edible can be made edible by putting them into the deep fryer. Deep Frying provides a mild bonus to the nutriment provided by foods, but can cause crew members to put on weight.
Kitchen Defence
While located in the bar, kitchen, or cold room, the Chef has access to an area restricted version of 'CQC' a martial art that utilizes combos to keep those pesky greytiders out of your kitchen. This functions exactly like the Syndicate version of CQC, but rather than 'Close Quarters Combat' It is, in fact, 'Close Quarters Cooking'. CQC changes your disarm to deal stamina damage, and your harm to deal pure stamina damage, while doing even more stamina damage to floored intruders. You also have the ability to leap over tables faster than most to kick the face in of any trespasser!
The Moveset
- Slam: Grab Harm. Slam opponent into the ground to deal 50 stamina damage, confusion and knockdown. Only works on people standing.
- CQC Kick: Disarm Harm. Knocks away and deals 25 stamina damage. On downed opponents it does 40 stamina damage and 10 brain damage, muting them as well.
- Restrain: Grab Grab. Locks your opponent into a restraining position, making your grab harder to break out of. Follow up this combo with a disarm to begin a chokehold which deals immediate stamina and gradual oxygen damage until the target passes out. The more stamina damage they have when the chokehold begins, the more stamina / oxygen damage you will deal. Failing to complete the chokehold will weaken and possibly break your grab.
- Pressure: Disarm Grab. Deals 40 Stamina damage and steals whatever item your opponent is currently holding in their active hand.
- Consecutive CQC: Disarm Disarm Harm. Deals 70 Stamina damage and 20 Brute damage to the opponent.
- Leg Sweep: Harm while downed. Knocks opponent down and immediately picks you up.
Mrs. Lovett's meat pies 
As a traitor Chef you have many opportunities available to you that a regular crew member does not. You can take syringes full of nasty chemicals and inject them into food items in order to poison people. If you have a compatriot in Hydroponics, they can grow poisonous shrooms which you can then refine with the Blender and ChemMaster. Your knife and rolling pin are also potentially useful tools in a pinch, the rolling pin causes partial blindness, and the knife has better damage than most items available to regular crew members. You can also stuff bodies into the gibber in order to dispose of any evidence. With your CQC your kitchen is your fortress, and you'll have a distinct advantage in unarmed combat when located there.