Saucepan
The Saucepan family is a smaller stovetop vessel focused on liquid cooking, reductions, and recipes that do not need the Stockpot’s larger volume workflow.
Material tiers
Section titled “Material tiers”This cookware is available in Iron, Stainless Steel, Diamond Coated, and Netherite. Recipes and capacity stay within the same cookware family; higher tiers change heating and cooling response. See Cookware Tiers.
Status: Implemented core system
The Saucepan currently supports four solid ingredient slots, up to 1500 mB of water, medium thermal response, evaporation, persistent reduction tracking, shared heated recipe execution, and pinned recipe integration.
Capacity
Section titled “Capacity”The current Saucepan provides:
| Capacity | Amount |
|---|---|
| Solid ingredients | 4 slots |
| Water | 1500 mB |
Water can be loaded through Water Bucket handling. The liquid state is tracked independently from the four solid ingredient slots.
Heat behavior
Section titled “Heat behavior”The Saucepan uses a medium thermal response. It follows the Stovetop/Oven burner target through the shared cookware thermal simulation instead of changing temperature instantly.
Saucepan recipes can define a valid temperature range. A heat based recipe locks only after its technique conditions are valid; once started, leaving those conditions pauses progress rather than immediately selecting a different recipe.
Evaporation
Section titled “Evaporation”Water begins evaporating once the Saucepan is heated above approximately 90 °C.
The development model is intentionally temperature sensitive. Reference values from the current system are approximately:
| Temperature | Evaporation rate |
|---|---|
| 95 °C | 15 mB/s |
| 100 °C | 30 mB/s |
The exact rate is simulated rather than treated as a single fixed timer.
Reduction
Section titled “Reduction”The Saucepan tracks a persistent reduction fraction as liquid evaporates. Recipes can use both remaining water bounds and reduction bounds as real technique requirements.
A Saucepan recipe can therefore care about more than whether the correct ingredients are present. It can require that the contents have actually reduced far enough before valid completion.
This is intended for systems such as:
- sauces
- glazes
- syrups
- concentrated broths
- other liquid reductions
Recipe requirements
Section titled “Recipe requirements”The shared Saucepan recipe framework supports:
- exact ingredient requirements
- prepared state matching
- temperature range
- cooking duration
- water range
- reduction range
- optional consumption of remaining liquid
- finished dish quality propagation
Extra ingredients are rejected when they do not belong to the matched recipe.
Water and the Recipe Book
Section titled “Water and the Recipe Book”Saucepan recipes expose minimum and maximum water requirements to the shared preparation plan system.
When a pinned recipe needs water, the current availability pass converts Water Buckets into available millibuckets:
1 Water Bucket = 1000 mBThis lets the pinned HUD show whether the selected recipe has enough liquid available before loading or cooking.
Connected kitchen storage
Section titled “Connected kitchen storage”The Saucepan can participate in the kitchen storage network through its Stovetop connection and adjacent kitchen furniture.
The recipe storage layer can account for ingredients already inserted into the Saucepan and determine only the remaining requirements for the explicitly selected recipe.
Recipe catalog
Section titled “Recipe catalog”Exact Saucepan recipe ingredients, water requirements, temperatures, and cooking times are listed in the Complete Recipe Index.