Kitchen

Now that you have your freshly collected ingredients from the farm, it's time to get cooking! To cook, you have to assign Food Souls as your chef and unlock new recipes by cooking a certain amount of dishes.

### Accessing the Kitchen

To access the Kitchen, go into the Estate and tap on the icon circled in the image below. You can also access the kitchen through the Restaurant, main screen, and quick menu, which have been respectively circled out in the images below.

### Kitchen

Now that you're in your kitchen, it's time to assign some Food Souls to cook some delicious dishes! Keep in mind that some Food Souls can reduce the time needed to cook dishes. To add a Food Soul, tap on the blank spaces.

Food Souls who are able to reduce cooking time are indicated by the blue tag in the top right corner, and the percentage of reduction can be seen at the bottom of the screen. They have been automatically sorted to the top for your convenience. To remove Food Souls, tap on the blank slot, which is the first slot. If you cannot find the desired Food Soul, it means that they have been assigned somewhere else (Farm, Home, etc). Once you're done, select the yellow button.

Now it's time to start cooking! To cook, tap on the stove tops circled in red. Once you've tapped the stove top, you'll be brought to the recipes you have unlocked and are able to cook.

* Filtering Recipes
* Ingredients Needed
* Quantity
* Earnings & Duration
* Upgrades

You can filter recipes by ingredient by tapping the ingredient icons on top. To cancel the sorting, simply tap on the selected icon again.

The ingredients needed are shown in the box to the right. The numbers shown are "Amount Available/Amount Needed". If the number is red, it means that you lack sufficient ingredients to make the dish.

The amount of food that will be cooked is automatically set to maximum depending on the availability of ingredients. You can adjust the amount you want to cook by tapping/holding the arrows, or by tapping on the number and typing it in yourself. You can only make a maximum of 30 dishes.

The circled area in the top of the image below depicts how much time it takes to make a serving of the chosen dish, as well as how much shell money it will earn you. The red circle at the bottom of the image is the total cooking time including the quantity of servings you wish to make.

Meanwhile, the bar to the right indicates the upgrades you can get from cooking a specific amount of dishes as indicated by the small numbers. In the first tier, you earn 10% more shell money, the second tier will reduce the required cooking time by 10%, and the third tier will unlock a new recipe.

### Speeding Up, Scrapping, and Collecting Dishes

If you're impatient to wait for your food to be complete, in a rush for a catering order, or you've made a mistake in your cooking choice, worry not! As depicted in the image below, simply tap on the dish you want to speed up/scrap. The top button allows you to speed up your cooking time, while the bottom button allows you to scrap your dishes and get a refund on your ingredients. If you scrap a dish that has produced a completed dish, the completed servings will be automatically moved into the warehouse.

In order to speed up an order, you are required to use an item called 加速食用油. Each bottle will reduce the time by 5 minutes, and you can hold the button to use it continuously. Alternatively, you can use jade tokens to finish your dishes immediately. You can get more 加速食用油 from Daily Quests and Weekly Quests.

Once your dishes are done, you can simply tap the displayed dishes or tap on the button circled in red below to collect everything in one go.

### Unlocking New Recipes

To view recipes that you have unlocked or could potentially unlock, tap on the lantern in the top right of the Kitchen screen. Recipes that have been unlocked will have colour, while yet to be unlocked recipes are colourless. You can tap on a recipe to check what dish you need to cook in order to unlock the corresponding dishes.

And that is it for cooking! Now that you have your dishes ready, it's time to head over to the Restaurant to serve your dishes, complete catering orders, or initiate rush hour!