Multiple Kinds of Cookware

[DuskyBun]

I adore the cooking and meal-making system.
Rather than the common suggestion of simply 'more ways to mix' existing food items-
I think it'd be more interesting to have to sculpt/smith different pots/pans/apparatus to cook various meals with.
Perhaps even some meals need you to use specific cookware.
A frying pan could have a 2 meal max, but cook a little faster.
A dutch oven that could cook a much larger meal at the cost of perhaps heating slower and needing an additional lid made for it.
Baking pans for cakes? Smithed Waffle Irons? Roasting Spits for a whole hog BBQ? Etc.
Even sculpting an entire 19th century wood/coal-burning cast-iron stove. I already do it by chisel, would be awesome to actually craft it piece by piece from the iron

I love cooking in a pot, but sometimes some bacon and eggs in the cast iron pan sounds great too.
 

Edited February 26, 2025 by DuskyFalcon

[LadyWYT]

https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/28

https://mods.vintagestory.at/aculinaryartillery

Now I do like a more in-depth cooking system, however...for the base game, I think it's better to have a simpler system in place to avoid confusing players or adding "clutter gameplay" that may be fun but pull too much attention from other gameplay areas. That being said...

24 minutes ago, DuskyFalcon said:

Roasting Spits for a whole hog BBQ?

A roasting spit to cook several items at once would be awesome, and a good fit for the game too.

25 minutes ago, DuskyFalcon said:

A dutch oven that could cook a much larger meal at the cost of perhaps heating slower and needing an additional lid made for it.

Could double the total portions you can cook at once with it. Useful in singleplayer for cooking large batches of jam/preserved food at once, and useful in multiplayer for feeding a lot of friends at once. The main drawback I would give it, is that it can't be equipped in the cookpot slots on the mounts--you'd need to devote one of your inventory slots in order to bring it with you on a trip.

27 minutes ago, DuskyFalcon said:

A frying pan could have a 2 meal max, but cook a little faster.

Or rather than cooking a meal, let the frying pan cook meat faster, by simply having the ingredient stack you place in it maintain its temperature(as long as the pan stays heated), instead of starting over from 0 C every time a new item starts cooking.

[Booker42]

I would like to see something that cooked multiple pieces of meat at a time.

Maybe a clay cooking sheet that you could use to cook 4 at a time with the added bonus of 4 pieces of flint at a time when trying to make fire clay

 

Edited February 27, 2025 by Booker42

[Thorfinn]

17 hours ago, DuskyFalcon said:

Roasting Spits for a whole hog BBQ? Etc.

That would be a cool patch mod to the Butcher mod. That already has the models made for a skinned animal. Might look a little goofy on something as small as a firepit, though...

[Guimoute]

I'd like to see sticks add 1 cooking slot (the same system as the cooking pot that adds 4) so that we can have the stick visual even after taking the roasted meat.