Kitchen Storage
Kitchen storage in A & A Cooking is more than a collection of inventories. Compatible kitchen furniture can form a connected storage network that Recipe Book planning and supported stations can search for exact ingredients.
Status: Implemented
Cabinets, Counters, Fridges, Freezers, connected ingredient lookup, exact state matching, and selected recipe ingredient loading are currently implemented.
Storage blocks
Section titled “Storage blocks”| Storage | Capacity | Storage condition |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen Counter | 18 slots | Ambient |
| Kitchen Cabinet | 27 slots | Ambient |
| Small Stainless Steel Fridge | 18 slots | Refrigerated |
| Small Stainless Steel Freezer | 18 slots | Frozen |
| Paired cold storage | 36 slots | Determined by the physical half owning each slot |
Kitchen Counters and Cabinets are available in twelve matching material variants. See Wood Kitchen Variants for the complete set.
Two vertically paired cold storage blocks open as one 36-slot appliance. See Cold Storage for the supported layouts.
Connected kitchen network
Section titled “Connected kitchen network”Compatible kitchen blocks can bridge storage to one another. A connected layout can include furniture and functional stations instead of requiring all inventories to touch directly.
For example:
Cabinet → Counter → Sink → Fridge
can participate in the same kitchen network.
The Stovetop/Oven can also bridge nearby kitchen furniture, allowing stovetop cookware to reach ingredient storage through the appliance and adjacent counters or cabinets.
What the network matches
Section titled “What the network matches”Recipe storage access uses the actual item stack state. It can distinguish prepared forms such as:
- washed vs. unwashed
- whole vs. sliced
- sliced vs. diced
- minced vs. other preparation states
- other recipe relevant item components
This prevents a raw or incorrectly prepared ingredient from silently satisfying an exact recipe requirement.
Pinned recipe loading
Section titled “Pinned recipe loading”Supported stations can use the currently pinned Recipe Book entry to calculate what is still missing from the station and pull only those requirements from connected storage.
The loading process is designed around several rules:
- preserve ingredients already inserted into the station
- pull only missing requirements
- match exact preparation state
- avoid consuming unrelated ingredients
- use the explicitly pinned recipe rather than guessing
- fail without partially consuming the kitchen’s ingredients when the full requirement cannot be supplied
Oven loading can also source required bakeware.
Freshness and storage conditions
Section titled “Freshness and storage conditions”Food freshness continues to age while stored at ambient temperature. The current storage multipliers are:
| Condition | Aging rate |
|---|---|
| Ambient storage | 1.00× |
| Refrigerator | 0.20× |
| Freezer | 0.00× |
A refrigerator therefore slows normal freshness loss to one fifth of the ambient rate, while freezer storage stops freshness aging while the food remains frozen.
Mixed fridge/freezer appliances keep the storage condition of the physical half that owns each slot rather than applying one temperature to the entire 36-slot combined interface.
Related pages
Section titled “Related pages”See also
Section titled “See also”Crates and market cargo
Section titled “Crates and market cargo”The twelve wooden Crates have nine inventory slots each. Some generated market and merchant Crates use themed cargo contents. The Spice Traders guide explains merchant shipments.