Cooking Overview

A & A Cooking recipes are tied to a station or processing system. A recipe can require an exact item, a washed state, a cut style, a temperature range, a processing mode, a duration, cookware, or a station specific interaction.

Recipe matching

Ingredient requirements match the item itself first. A requirement can then check whether the ingredient is washed and whether its cut style is the required style. A whole ingredient is not treated as a sliced or diced ingredient.

The recipe matcher supports two count rules:

Rule	Behavior
Exact count	The input must contain the required total and no remaining items.
Batch count	The input must contain at least the required total. Remaining items must still match one of the recipe requirements.

This means an unrelated extra ingredient can prevent a batch recipe from matching. A valid surplus can be processed as repeated batches when the station supports sequential processing. The station page or recipe page will identify which controls and count behavior apply.

Station families

Family	Stations	Current behavior
Preparation	Oak Kitchen Sink, Oak Cutting Board	Washing, cutting, peeling, shredding, and cracking paths are handled through block interactions.
Processing	Blender	Blend, Pulse, and Chop modes. Blend, Pulse, and Chop use 100, 40, and 60 game ticks per cycle respectively.
Processing	Mixing Bowl	Mix, Whisk, and Fold modes. These use 8, 12, and 6 actions per cycle respectively.
Processing	Mortar and Pestle	Crush and Grind modes. These use 5 and 10 actions per cycle respectively.
Fermentation	Fermentation Crock	Matches a fermentation recipe and processes it over a recipe defined duration.
Heated cookware	Saucepan, Stockpot, Skillet, Wok	Uses station specific ingredient capacity and temperature behavior. Wok interaction includes tossing ingredients. The Stockpot can serve completed dishes with the supported serving containers.
Oven	Stovetop/Oven	Provides stovetop and oven surfaces, temperature controls, oven racks, and cookware slots.
Planning	Recipe Book	Provides discovery, recipe details, prerequisites, pins, and recipe quantity planning.

Heat and temperature

The Stovetop/Oven currently exposes these temperature presets:

Preset	Temperature
Low	80 °C
Low Med	95 °C
Med	160 °C
Med High	190 °C
High	225 °C

Heated recipes can define their own acceptable temperature range. The Stovetop/Oven and Cookware Overview document the heat source and cookware behavior. Exact recipe ranges are listed in the Complete Recipe Index.

Freshness and spoilage

Current food processing and cooking recipes use freshness as part of the shared food pipeline. Spoiled ingredients are rejected when they are no longer valid inputs, and completed food can inherit freshness from the ingredients used to make it instead of automatically becoming completely fresh again.

This matters most for multi step recipes, where an ingredient can move through preparation, processing, and heating without losing its accumulated food age.

Recipe pages

Each recipe page should list the station, item quantities, preparation states, temperature, duration, mode, output, and any special control. Central mechanics belong on this page so individual recipes can link to them without repeating the full explanation.

See Cookware Overview for the shared cookware model and First Steps for the basic workflow, Ingredient Preparation for preparation paths, and the dedicated Kitchen Sink, Cutting Board, Blender, Mixing Bowl, Mortar and Pestle, Stovetop/Oven, and Fermentation Crock guides for station specific behavior. See Recipe Catalog for category guides and Complete Recipe Index for all 233 entries.

Food Quality

Supported finished dishes can receive Poor, Normal, Good, or Excellent quality. Read Food Quality for the current score tiers. Quality is distinct from food aging and preservation.