TFMC

Cooking

Cooking has no menu and no crafting table. It is a set of real furniture props you place in the world: a pan, a pot, a cutting board, an oven, a milling stone, a fire pit with a spit, a butter churn, a sausage maker. Put ingredients on them, work the station, and the food item you get back tracks its own freshness, cooked state, seasoning and a 1–5 star quality rating: all shown in the item's name and lore. There is nothing to type; everything is a right-click.

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The basic loop

The furniture and the two clicks that drive every station.

  1. 1. Place the furniture you need: Frying Pan, Pot, Cutting Board, Fire Pit, Milling Stone, Mixing Bowl, Oven Bottom + Oven Top with a Bread Tray, Butter Churn, Sausage Maker, Meat Hook, or a plain vanilla Cauldron.
  2. 2. Right-click the furniture while holding an ingredient to place it into one of the furniture's slots.
  3. 3. Right-click with an empty hand to take the item back out, or to operate the station (churn, turn the spit, stir).
  4. 4. Stations that need heat must sit above a heat source. For soup, place a Pot directly on an Oven Bottom, add logs and light them.
  5. 5. Cooking ticks once per second, so every time listed below is in real seconds, not ticks.

Your first soup

A simple carrot and potato soup to get you started.

Ingredients: 2 Carrots, 2 Potatoes, a Water Bucket and wood logs for fuel. Equipment: Cutting Board, Cutting Knife, Oven Bottom, Pot, Flint and Steel, Masher, Ladle and a Bowl.

  1. Put 2 carrots on the Cutting Board and cut them once with a Cutting Knife. Take the cut carrots off the board.
  2. Put 2 potatoes on the cutting board and cut them once with the Cutting Knife. Take the cut potatoes off the board.
  3. Craft an Oven Bottom and place it, then put a Pot on top.
  4. Right-click the pot with a Water Bucket to fill it.
  5. Right-click the Oven Bottom while holding wood logs to add fuel.
  6. Right-click the logs inside the oven with Flint and Steel to light them.
  7. Wait for the water to boil, then add either the cut carrots or the cut potatoes.
  8. Right-click the vegetables in the pot with a Masher to mash them into soup.
  9. Add the other cut vegetables and mash them in the same way.
  10. Once the soup has finished cooking, right-click it with a Ladle to take a serving.
  11. Pour the soup into a Bowl, then right-click to eat it.

Station by station

What to hold and what happens at each station.

StationHeld item / actionResult
Cutting BoardHold the Cutting Knife and interactRuns a cutting/chopping recipe on up to 4 slots at once: all 4 must be the same ingredient.
Frying PanPlace food, needs heat below; take out by handCooks over time; burns if left on too long.
PotAdd a Water Bucket, then cut vegetablesMakes boiled foods and soups.
Fire PitPut a roast on the spit, then right-click with the Fire Pit TurnerRotates and roasts a whole joint (chicken, beef, venison).
Meat Hook + Cutting KnifeCarve a cooked roastYields cuts one at a time, in a fixed order.
Milling StoneInsert 8 Wheat, then perform 4 revolutions1 batch of Flour, over 60 ticks (3 s).
Mixing BowlAdd Flour + Cup of Water + Yeast, then stir 3 timesDough (10 ticks per stir).
Bread Tray (in an Oven)Fill both moulds with Dough, light the oven with logs2 Bread per mould.
Butter ChurnRight-click with a Milk Bucket to load it, then repeatedly right-click the stick3 churns deliver Butter onto a carried Butter Plate.
Sausage MakerFeed 3 meats, then crankA Sausage Chain you carve for 5 sausages.
Cauldron (vanilla block)Right-click while holding a sauce or soup itemEmpties/serves the liquid.

Cutting Board recipes

Every recipe the Cutting Board can run.

RecipeInput
cut_vegetablesAny raw vegetable (Carrot, Potato, Tomato, Onion, Lettuce, Cucumber, Corn, Beetroot, Pumpkin)
chop_vegetablesAny cut vegetable
chop_oliveOlive
chop_pistachioPistachio
chop_rhubarbRhubarb
chop_garlicGarlic

Olive, Pistachio, Rhubarb and Garlic skip the cutting step and go straight to chopped : every other vegetable above is cut first, then optionally chopped again.

Cooking stations

Fire Pit

Whole Chicken, Beef Roast, Venison Roast

Frying Pan

Chicken, Chicken Leg, Steak, Beef, Venison, Pork, Sausage, Cut vegetables

Pot

Cut vegetables

Carving sequences

Each right-click with the Cutting Knife on a roast or sausage chain takes one cut off, in this order.

SequenceCutsYields in order
Whole Chicken6Chicken Leg ×2, Chicken ×3, then 2 Bone
Beef / Venison Roast8Beef ×7, then 4 Bone
Sausage Chain5Sausage ×5