Cook

CIVILIAN STAFF
Cook	Access: Kitchen, Morgue Additional Access: Hydroponics, Bar Difficulty: Easy Supervisors: Head of Personnel Duties: Make food, nag at hydroponics to grow you stuff, make meat from the odd lifeforms found in the morgue Guides: Guide to food and drinks

You are the less-alcoholic half of the Maltese Falcon.

You cook food, blend veggies and fruits, grind bodies for meat, stick monkey and xenos onto meat hooks for meat. And kill people who mess with you, with your kitchen knife.

Equipment

Your workplace, the kitchen and freezer

The cook starts with his speckled coat, a nice maid jumpsuit and a cool chef hat like in those movies. He gets a lot of cool kitchen related things, too, like these:

• An apron and cool looking hat.
• A machine that can dispense trays, plates, cups, and knives.
• 2 microwaves.
• A Smart Fridge.
• A hallway-facing counter with shutters.
• Rolling Pin.
• Blender, Juicer, and Processor.
• 2 Meat Spikes
• A gibber.
• Ice cream cart.
• Eggs.
• Meat.
• Flour.
• Space Cleaner.
• Universal Enzymes.

Cooking and You

If you don't know a recipe, don't experiment, or you will waste valuable ingredients! Furthermore, if you are using a microwave, you will dirty your microwave, making it unusable until it gets a space cleaner blast. Also, if a microwave gets broken, you need to use a toolbox to repair it (the tools, don't smack it more). The processor and the blender are much more forgiving. The processor will only take things that it recognizes and the blender will blend any food item (granted, you might not get anything interesting out of it). You also have a ChemMaster to separate and identify anything you produce with your blender.

See the Guide to food and drinks for a list of recipes. Most are done by tablecrafting -- place your ingredients on a table and click&drag from the table onto yourself to open a crafting window, which lists all recipes that can be made with the given ingredients.

You should be cooperating with the Bartender to serve your patrons. If you don't want to go through the bartender, you can use the window that faces the main hallway, serve patrons in person with your food cart, or even add your superior creations to vending machines.

This is a Knife, and That is a Rolling Pin

Your knife is a pretty good damage weapon. Other than that, it can be used to cut food! You can cut cheese very easy with it, along with other foods (test what you can cut with it). Some animals can be butchered with the knife as well.

Hydroponics

Your neighbor, hydroponics, is a necessity for you to make most recipes. Take a gander at the window early on and see if there are any botanists working, and if there aren't any inside, wait a bit for one to be sent on the arrivals shuttle or go ask the HoP for botany access so that you can grow your own plants. They will most of the time grant you access because hydroponics isn't a high-risk area. Good things to ask the botanists for to start with are wheat, tomatoes, and potatoes. These three plants are used commonly in recipes, and after you ask botany for those you can ask them for other plants when they need to be used in a recipe. Please note that hydroponics has direct access to your smart fridge, and will often times load crop into it without saying a word. Check it from time to time to see if the hippies have left you anything.

If no one is working botany and you're too lazy to stop by the HoP, the Garden has some basic produce available (most usefully, wheat) and the ability to make more seeds.

The Best Meat Pies on Station

You can grab monkeys and force them onto your meatspikes to slaughter them instantly. Clicking on a meatspike with a monkey will remove their skin first, then provide a slab of meat for up to five times. Monkeys can be produced by adding water to a monkey cube; monkey cubes can be produced with the biogenerator or ordered in a supply crate.

Some critters can be gibbed with your knife for meat, but they need to be dead first. Try not to kill Pete, as it is able to eat Space vines if alive.

Your gibber is EXCESSIVELY useful during long rounds where you are feeding a lot of people. If you can't get Pun Pun or get the quartermaster to get you a monkey crate, you can head off to the morgue. That's right, the cook has morgue access to grab spent bodies and drag them to the gibber. It's good practice to gib suicide victims first, as they cannot be cloned by any means and you can easily tell they're suicides by examining them for the following: a twisted off head, a bit off tongue, gouged out eyes, or, more plainly-- they look like they've committed suicide. Your gibber can only accept unclothed bodies, so remove any clothing or other objects the body may have on them.

Culinary Science

R&D can upgrade your microwaves, doubling the amount of food they produce! On long shifts with lots of people this will prove invaluable, assuming all the scientists haven't set themselves on fire.

Avoiding Death by Irony

Close your door behind you when you enter the kitchen. If you leave your door open when you come in, a murderer can run in and quickly stab you with a pen, take your ID, and throw you in your own gibber before you can say "BORK BORK BORK!" If people are trying to break in regardless, close the shutters over the tables.

Homeopathy

All food contains the universal ingredient called "Nutriment." It's what nourishes you and heals your injuries when you eat. Although food might not heal you as quickly as the doctor can (or from the more exotic dangers of the station), it can often heal for more over time. Blending down a bunch of donuts and burgers into a nice nutriment shake can be just the right pick-me-up after having the shit beat out of you.

Will it Blend?

That is the question. You can blend anything that comes from botany, and pretty much all food and liquids.

Tips

• Combining Blood and Synthflesh will generate meat in the reaction - Chemistry can sometimes be your greatest supplier .
• Cleavers can fit in your pocket - Kitchen knives can be stored on your Apron.
• Don't waste Pun-Pun/monkies by instantly tossing them on a spike! With your cleaver, a knife and some tools, you can easily perform ghetto surgery for that sweet brain cake.
• You can color eggs with crayons.
• You can make colored burgers by cooking them with a crayon of your choice. This applies to all types of burger, as well!

Tips for Traitoring

• A decent amount of food you can cook will actually cause damage. Some notable examples include:
  • Fish & Chips, Fish Fingers, and Carp Sashimi are all fairly toxic.
  • Enchiladas and Nettle Soup are both potentially deadly if consumed in full, dealing huge amounts of burn damage.
  • Amanita Jelly, Jelly Burgers, and even just raw Slime Jelly is incredibly lethal in mere moments, making it not a bad option for some force-feeding.
• When you gib a human, the meat is marked with their name (Adeline Lacon-Meat), so be careful not to leave it lying around, or people might start to ask questions.
• You can stash items in Bread and a few other foods, so you can facilitate prison breaks by sending up tools, and emag, or even a small weapon to your buddies in the Prison Wing.
• A hacked or emagged Kitchen vendor will have a few Cleavers inside it. They are somewhat more robust than a standard Kitchen knife, so use them instead!

A Meal to Kill For

Traitor Cook is pretty damned fun, especially if you get some some items to knock people out like the crossbow or the sleepy pen. You can even take syringes full of nasty chemicals and inject it into food items. The best part about being a traitor cook is the cleanup; seeing a cook dragging a locker with a dead body in it is pretty par for the course, so no one will question you when you toss your target's body in the gibber. If you have a compatriot in Hydroponics, they can grow you some poisonous shrooms which you can then refine with the Blender and ChemMaster. Don't forget your knife and rolling pin, the pin causes partial blindness, and the knife has pretty good damage, so carry those with you. In short, go full Sweeney Todd and make delicious meat pies out of people. You can also feed fat people the mint, which gibs them.