Ingredient Preparation

Some recipes require an ingredient to be washed or to use a specific preparation state. The current ingredient state stores quality, a washed flag, and a cut style. Whole is the default cut style, not a cutting action.

Ingredient profiles decide whether an item can be washed and which cut styles it supports. A recipe can also require an exact item and an exact cut style, so a prepared item is not automatically interchangeable with its unprepared form.

Washing

Hold an ingredient and use it on an Oak Kitchen Sink. See the dedicated Kitchen Sink guide for the full station behavior. If the item has a washable profile and is not already washed, the held stack receives its washed state without consuming the item.

The sink also exchanges a bucket for a water bucket and a water bucket for a bucket. Items that do not have a washable profile pass through to the normal block action.

Using the cutting board

The Oak Cutting Board holds one item at a time. See the dedicated Cutting Board guide for the full interaction flow.

1. Wash the ingredient first when its profile requires washing.
2. Use the washed ingredient on an empty board. One item is placed on the board and one item is removed from the held stack, except in Creative mode.
3. With the ingredient on the board, sneak use a kitchen knife to cycle through the cut styles registered for that ingredient.
4. Use the kitchen knife normally to advance the selected preparation. Each knife use advances one required action and damages the knife by one point.
5. When the required actions are complete, the board replaces the input with the prepared item.

Use an empty hand to retrieve the held item. Sneaking with an empty hand also retrieves it. If the ingredient has a registered peeling preparation, normal empty hand use peels it instead of retrieving it.

Registered preparation paths

The following preparation paths are currently available. The values in the last column are required interactions, not game ticks.

Input	Input ID	Preparation	Output	Output ID	Required interactions
Tomato	aandacooking:tomato	Slice	Sliced Tomato	aandacooking:tomato_sliced	2 knife uses
Tomato	aandacooking:tomato	Dice	Diced Tomato	aandacooking:tomato_diced	4 knife uses
Sliced Tomato	aandacooking:tomato_sliced	Dice	Diced Tomato	aandacooking:tomato_diced	2 knife uses
Onion	aandacooking:onion	Slice	Sliced Onion	aandacooking:onion_sliced	2 knife uses
Onion	aandacooking:onion	Dice	Diced Onion	aandacooking:onion_diced	4 knife uses
Onion	aandacooking:onion	Mince	Minced Onion	aandacooking:onion_minced	6 knife uses
Onion	aandacooking:onion	Julienne	Julienned Onion	aandacooking:onion_julienned	4 knife uses
Sliced Onion	aandacooking:onion_sliced	Dice	Diced Onion	aandacooking:onion_diced	2 knife uses
Sliced Onion	aandacooking:onion_sliced	Mince	Minced Onion	aandacooking:onion_minced	4 knife uses
Sliced Onion	aandacooking:onion_sliced	Julienne	Julienned Onion	aandacooking:onion_julienned	2 knife uses
Diced Onion	aandacooking:onion_diced	Mince	Minced Onion	aandacooking:onion_minced	2 knife uses
Garlic	aandacooking:garlic	Peel	Peeled Garlic	aandacooking:garlic_peeled	1 empty hand use
Peeled Garlic	aandacooking:garlic_peeled	Slice	Sliced Garlic	aandacooking:garlic_sliced	2 knife uses
Peeled Garlic	aandacooking:garlic_peeled	Mince	Minced Garlic	aandacooking:garlic_minced	4 knife uses
Sliced Garlic	aandacooking:garlic_sliced	Mince	Minced Garlic	aandacooking:garlic_minced	2 knife uses
A & A Cooking Egg	aandacooking:egg	Crack	Cracked Egg	aandacooking:egg_cracked	1 cutting board edge use
Fresh Cheese	aandacooking:milk_cheese_fresh	Shred	Shredded Cheese	aandacooking:milk_cheese_shredded	4 knife uses

Additional preparation actions can be used by other stations, but only the paths listed above are Cutting Board preparations. Processing recipes such as grinding or mixing are documented with their station rather than treated as Cutting Board actions.

Preparation and recipe matching

When a recipe requires a prepared ingredient, it can check both the item and its ingredient state. For example, a recipe can require a washed item with the DICED cut style. See Cooking Overview for the matching rules used by cooking and processing stations.

Choosing a Cutting Board mode

A & A Cooking supports Simple and Interactive Cutting Board preparation. Press J to toggle modes, then use a Kitchen Knife on a Cutting Board. Interactive preparation uses visible cutting guides; Simple preparation follows normal repeated cuts.