What nobody asked for, Kitchen Safety

[Lmwevil]

I think what Aurora is TRULY missing is kitchen safety RP. 

People leave the gas stoves on, the oven on and so on. 

CLEARLY what we need, more than any other feature including the Odyssey is for the kitchen to set fire if the stoves are left on and unattended. 

[kermit]

i dont play chef but

i think what we're really missing is food contamination if you leave raw meat on table surfaces, with corresponding foodborne pathogens depending on the meat type

antags should be able to smear raw chicken over medicals' tables and equipment to start a salmonella epidemic.

...in all seriousness though, the ovens take ages to heat up, so having to turn them on/off between cooking meals would be painful. i'm not sure the initial suggestion of fires resulting from ovens left on would be worth it :(  maybe if they're left on AND open?

[Lmwevil]

Perhaps if left on for upwards of 20-30 minutes?

Huge leeway to make a lot of meals, turn off to cool down then turn back on

[HanSolo1519]

Bubbling, splattering oil causing minor burns without longsleeve chefs coats

Smoke and fumes causing issues if you don't turn the overhead vents on

Honestly I love this

[Nagito Komaeda]

I always try to roleplay kitchen regulations as XO and it's such a blast. Fully support ANYTHING like this.

I want people dropping knives and if they don't have good shoes they get shanked. Pans should boil and be hot and you need mittens for the pans, but you can't do cutlery with mittens and GOD.

[Faye <3]

this sounds like pointless tedium

[Sniblet]

They’re future ovens. They don’t cause fires because of the future. I would also be open to future ovens that could cause fires, but instead don’t need to be left on for 60 seconds before they’ll begin operating at the slowest possible speed, because of the future. Either option sounds unnecessarily tedious, but I certainly wouldn’t accept both at once.

anyway let’s make all of the kitchen equipment gas-powered. you have to enslave an atmos tech before you can do anything, but you get to cook with phoron fires. “it’zzz zavhe to eat i promizze” says the chef, earning vacant stares from its customers who are gently fading out of lucidity due to acute carbon dioxide poisoning because the fume hood cannot keep up

Edited August 5 by Sniblet

[Fluffy]

I guess we could integrate the oven and the fryer to use atmos gasses in some way instead of electrical power (since by how fires work in our codebase, we'd need fuel to spread, and only electricity can't do that with some logical sense afaik), but I'm not sure I want to be responsible for half the crew starving because there's no atmos techs or half the crew becoming flambé because someone forgot to turn the oven off and there's now an hydrogen fire in the kitchen

[furrycactus]

I definitely understand the intent, but this does sound a lot like pointless tedium. Consider that the average shift is around two hours. I've had plenty of cooking sessions IRL that have surpassed that timeframe without the oven or stovetop catching fire, and that's with a decade old electrical stove/oven. I'd imagine the cooking facilities on the SCC's flagship vessel in 2466 are probably much better and safer to operate.

For example, I've always just assumed the stovetops work via induction, which doesn't actually generate heat on a hotplate or produce flame, but induces a magnetic current in the base of the cooking pan/pot/etc. to heat up just the pan itself. It's incredibly safe. And that's by today's technology, let alone four-hundred years in the future. Many modern ovens also come equipped with safeties and circuit breakers that trip if an oven gets too hot and cut the power automatically so fires don't happen. But even then, most ovens can already run for much longer than 2 hours without any ill-effects.

By ALL means, don't leave your FOOD unattended on ovens or stoves for hours on end, sure, that can definitely lead to a fire. I wouldn't be opposed to unattended burnt food eventually catching alight. But with how long already it takes for the stoves and ovens to heat up, it would add some really un-fun tedium to the role if I have to keep turning my devices off to let them cool down. Empty and unattended cooking implements, while not ideal, I don't see a reason they should spontaneously combust because they got a tiny bit too hot after only half an hour (provided food hasn't been left to smoke and burn). Also remember this should probably be viewed as more of an industrial-scale kitchen, given that it's responsible for feeding the ENTIRE ship, and not a humble home-cook's hobby kitchen. It should definitely be able to handle running hot for several hours.

I could definitely understand if these devices heated up the room though (gradually, and slowly, and not to dangerous levels, or Tajara chefs would suffer), Kitchens can be very warm places after you've been cooking for a while. Maybe smoking/burning food starts to produce CO2 as well? If anyone's ever burnt food before you know how quickly your kitchen can be visually choked up with smoke.

EDIT: Actually I think if you put water or ice in the deep fryer it should have a huge slippery foam reaction that gives you severe burns.

Edited August 6 by furrycactus

[wowzewow]

A feature that could be ported from /tg/ iirc would be that ants spawn if you leave food on the floor after a while. Also cockroaches. They eat some of the food and leave toxins.

[FlamingLily]

On 05/08/2024 at 18:32, Lmwevil said:

People leave the gas stoves on, the oven on and so on.

Are they gas stoves? Cause that's dumb, why would we be using a gas when we have the infinite power of a newborn star to cook our steaks.