Baking

From Neverend

Baking is a skill within the larger skill of cooking. Level 1 baking has basic ingredients for bread, which can be taught to others. Bakers can be taught advanced recipes by advanced cooks, but will still have a high rate of failure if attempting those recipes. Baking skill increases by using the baking process by using a recipe. Continued baking increases skill to a point, until more complicated recipes are needed to increase skill. Increased skill also increases chance of success for lower level recipes, reduces preparation and cooking time, and increases chances for higher quality.

Baking requires flour, water, milk and yeast.

• Water: Water should be freshwater, not salt water. In some recipes, water can be substituted with other liquids including oil. Bread without water is dry.
• Milk: Taken from cows, goats, and fictional cattle. Mythical creatures may have their own milk, and unique character creatures may have unique milk. Milk can be made from specific plants like soy beans. A cook can add ingredients to milk to create a new type of milk- butter for butter milk. Normal milk will not function as well as sour milk, which can be made by adding lemon juice, or using old milk that is now sour milk.
• Flour: Flour is from churned plant matter. Wheat flour is the most common, but flour can come from corn, quinoa, amaranth, and other grains.
• Yeast: Bread without yeast turns into unleavened bread. Yeast is found from a container of flour and water left to ferment, from yeasty bread, yeasty dough, and leftover from beer brewing and wineries. Yeast contains multiple properties stored as a small string of characters, and these properties can speed up cooking time, chance of success, food quality when cooked, and food lifespan before being stale. There may be unique and exotic types of yeast. Bread retains the properties of yeast, so the bread may be reused to make new yeast, allowing bakers to promote bread as better crafted due to its yeast properties, and bakers may seek out certain bread for its superior yeast.
• Other ingredients: salt, lard, oil, corn meal, and other ingredients are specified by the recipe used, and deduct those ingredients from inventory and the cooking area when preparing bread.
• Tools: The recipe may specify specific tools such as cookie cutters. Tools that are specified by the recipe are required. Tools that are not specified are optional, and are used if present, and help with the process by reducing time.

Necropolitans can use odd ingredients for bread, using blood for liquid, dust, mummy dust, bone dust and ash for flour, and mold, slime, moldy bread and rotting food for yeast. Poisoners can use poison with milk for poisoned milk, poison with flour for poisoned flour, and poisonous molds for yeast. Bread itself may be poisoned, but is less potent than bread cooked with poison ingredients.

The type of bread is based on ingredients used, and a matching recipe will produce an appropriate bread item, such as sourdough bread, sweet potato bread, potato bread, cornbread. Normal bread uses wheat flour. When appropriate ingredients are used, the cooking process only requires sufficient skill and chance to result in a finished ingredient. If the baking skill fails, the recipe is wrong, or the cooking method fails or is interrupted, then the result is ruined, leaving a ruined process that must be manually canceled or it will be discarded by itself over time. A process that is canceled, interrupted, discarded or completed will leave its items behind, as the process is considered a temporary container for those items but will not destroy them.

Skill determines the time it takes to get ingredients ready, the rate of errors per batch, and bonuses such as quality. The cooking apparatus determines cooking time and chance of failure, as a good oven will succeed over a poorly made or makeshift oven.

First, the baker specifies making dough, based on a recipe. All available items are surveyed in the immediate area, table, furniture, containers, storage room, and personal inventory. The process is interrupted if there are insufficient ingredients available. This includes removing ingredients from the area in the middle of the process. Once dough making is complete, the baker is left with normal dough if using a normal bread recipe, or a specific dough if using a specific bread recipe. Dough that is left from a canceled or interrupted job is left on the area as part of a process, and must either be discarded when interacted with, or completed by someone with sufficient skill. This is to prevent dough from having a completeness stat, as only the job needs to be completed. An interrupted job can resume if ingredients are brought back into inventory or the cooking area, so the process resumes.

The process shows the baker gathering ingredients and tools including cups, spatulas bowls, pans, sorting ingredients, mixing ingredients together, stirring, kneading, waiting for bread to rise, kneading again, rising again, and then placed in a cooking device. The process is interrupted if the cooking device is moved or destroyed, leaving an incomplete process. This instance of dough is still in the preparation process and is not a separate item. Dough that is ready to be cooked can be transferred to other bakers, as they select the process and complete it by cooking. Bakers can prepare dough, leaving it at the end of the preparation process, to be resumed by other bakers who place it in the oven.

This process goes through cooking, requiring some cooking device such as a metal oven, brick oven, fireplace, or campfire, and shows the baker placing the dough in any available cooking items such as pans or boards, activating the device, inserting the dough into the device with the cooking item, then waiting, and is either interrupted successful. Once successful, the process goes to the "cooked" stage, where the bread is removed, and depending on bread quality, baker skill, and the devices used, the bread has differing qualities, with a chance for failure including burnt bread. Higher skill and better equipment will reduce the failure rate.

Cooked bread still goes through a final phase as it is not a completed item yet. If the recipe requires further ingredients after bread is baked, such as sugar, jam, butter, frosting, spices, decorations, or anything else, the baker searches for and uses those ingredients, or the process is interrupted. The process goes through item removal where any items used in cooking such as pans, bowls, trays, cups, or other tools are removed and released back as items, in inventory if it came from inventory, in the kitchen or furniture or store room if it came from there.

The final process has the item materialize on a surface, either the tables being used, on plates, or on the floor. The bread itself is a bread of a specific type, with additional bonuses for quality and poison level if poison was used during the process. A poisoner may apply poison to a baker in the middle of a process, but will need a high stealth skill to do so without being caught, as the baker will stop and the food will be labeled as poisoned if noticed.

The bread item can be used as an ingredient in another recipe, if the recipe specifies certain bread such as a bread bowl or a sandwich. The cooking process will treat available bread as an ingredient. The bread is considered an ingredient in eating, as someone in the eating process will use available bread with other items, including jam, butter, meat, and soup.

[edit] Baked items

• Bread loaves
• Bread rolls
• Cornbread
• Rye bread
• Sourdough bread
• Bagels
• Muffins
• Donuts
• Flour tortilla
• Corn tortilla
• Pita
• Biscuit
• Frybread
• Naan
• Puri
• Brioche
• Buns

Advanced:

• Pastry
• Pizza
• Cake
• Cruller
• Bread bowl
• Trencher