Ingredients Overview
A & A Cooking includes a large ingredient and food catalog spanning raw produce, prepared ingredients, dairy, herbs, Rice, Soybean, sauces, doughs, preserved foods, drinks, and finished meals.
For the exhaustive registered item list, see Complete Content Index.
Ingredient preparation
Section titled “Ingredient preparation”Ingredients can carry recipe relevant state such as:
- washed or unwashed
- whole
- sliced
- diced
- minced
- julienned
- shredded
- cooking state and doneness
- ingredient quality
Ingredient Preparation explains the preparation system and Cutting Board interactions.
Ingredient first IDs
Section titled “Ingredient first IDs”Prepared items generally group under their parent ingredient. Examples include:
tomato_saucetomato_pasteonion_powdermilk_cheese_freshsoybean_tofu_fresh
The Complete Content Index publishes the current registered IDs.
Intermediates
Section titled “Intermediates”Many foods are not final meals. Sauces, doughs, batters, seasonings, purees, boiled ingredients, fermented products, and other intermediates feed later recipes.
See Sauces & Intermediates and Complete Recipe Index.
Freshness
Section titled “Freshness”Perishable ingredients age through the Freshness & Spoilage system. Processing and cooking inherit freshness from perishable inputs rather than resetting food age to full freshness.