Note that the Chef and Bartender are expected to be familiar with the basics of making various recipes and cocktails, respectively. PDA software is supplied to assist beginners in this exercise.

All consumables, injectables, etc, contain building blocks known as Reagents. These Reagents are used to determine the actual effects of a consumed foodstuff - for example, a healthy snack might contain Nutriment and Vitamins. Reagents also include helpful - or harmful - chemicals that can be extracted from substances, as well as some oddities that defy normal explanation. A 'unit' of a reagent is a semi-specific volume in milliliters.

A catch-all term for the basic nutrients necessary for life. Any food of value has these, and most foods can be distilled to collect nutrients separately.

Nutrient Paste: This substance keeps forever and fulfills basic nutritional requirements when eaten, but is entirely unappetizing by itself; it is stockpiled on ships that are going to be without fresh food supplies for long periods of time, and is described as a sort of flavorless glop with the consistency of canned meat. Nutrient Paste usually comes in prepackaged individual meal jars, but is also supplied in large industrial drums and vending cartridges.

Flavor Paste: Often mixed with nutrient paste to make it taste less like solidified glue. Has little nutritional content on its own. Comes in individual packets for flavoring a single meal, as well as industrial-sized canisters and vending cartridges.

Coloring Paste: Often mixed with nutrient paste to give it a specific color, particularly when used to simulate traditional dishes. Practically no nutritional value, but can be used as a dye for other things besides foods. Comes in individual packets for single-serve meals, as well as industrial-sized canisters and vending cartridges for outpost supply.

Concentrated Syrup: This is combined with water and carbon dioxide to make beverages in a soda dispenser or from a soda gun.

These foods are pre-packaged or manufactured in vending machines, perfect for supplying someone with no cooking experience or time.

MRE Rations: These self-contained meal-in-a-bag rations are equipped with everything you need for a filling, comforting meal after a long day in the field. These are typically supplied to the military, but outposts often keep some in stock as well for situations where a Chef's expertise is hard to come by. Comes in a variety of flavors, and made from carefully measured combinations of nutrient paste, flavor paste, and coloring paste to approximate the flavor of fresh-cooked food; includes an internal heating mechanism to warm up food before eating.

Dispenser Gun: This device connects to a machine that stores liquids in twelve chambers, and allows you to letter the chambers to notate what is in them. The bar comes equipped with two, one which dispenses non-alcoholic beverages, and one that dispenses alcoholic beverages, in addition to their other machinery. When using a dispenser gun, you can choose to fill a container to a certain approximate level ('fill it', 'halfway', 'one third', 'two thirds', or simply 'dispense a burst' to spray roughly ten units of the liquid in question into a container (or anywhere else.) Professional drink mixers fill measuring cups so as not to make off-balance mixes. Typical contents of a Dispenser Gun may include:

• Cranked, a lemon-lime soda with an extremely high caffiene and sugar content.
• Red Handed, an energy drink that tastes terrible but has caffiene, sugar, and a few other chemicals to aid in awareness and alertness.
• Aggro Cola, the soft drink of choice by soldiers across the galaxy.
• Orange Nova, a delightful orange soft drink.
• TentaGrape, the only beverage with an octopus mascot.
• Water, for the prosaic folk.
• Ginger Ale, for those who hate being sick.
• Diet Aggro Cola, the soft drink of choice by rent-a-cops across the galaxy.
• Cherry Aggro Cola, the soft drink of choice by death squad officers across the galaxy.
• Bella Noir Beer, the dark draft beer of the seasoned connossieur.
• Liftoff Beer, a basic beer that will get you drunk eventually and is fairly cheap.
• Liftoff Lite Beer, a light beer that tastes fairly weak to most professional alcoholics, but is great for raw volume.
• Megahol, a powerfully strong orange beverage that contains roughly 800 proof alcohol. A nasty joke by science professors on lightweights, as well as a fast way to fix the alcohol content of less delightful beverages.
• Chug Root Beer, a flavorful nonalcoholic beverage that tastes not entirely unlike root beer.
• Green Stuff, basically green dye meant to change the color of drinks.
• Red Stuff, basically red dye meant to change the color of drinks.
• Blue Stuff, basically blue dye meant to change the color of drinks.

Coffeetron: This coffeemaker is designed to satisfy the desires of every coffee connossieur… when it's properly loaded and operated. In practice, the average monkey-brained crewmember's brew makes road tar seem appealing and can even make some people sick. However, coffee is generally excellent at warming you up and supplying necessary stimulants to deal with the shift's woes.

Soda Fountain: This old-fashioned device generates red plastic cups and fills them with refreshing soft drinks. Note that this makes it difficult to carry multiple cups around unless you use a serving tray.

Frosteez: The frozen slush concoction OF THE FUTURE! No, really, it's crushed frozen water mixed with sugary flavoring syrups in a dispenser and dispensed to the masses. They are excellent for cooling down after hot work, and some outposts use them as medicine delivery vehicles that people will actually use. Each Frosteez machine has three flavor chambers that can be individually loaded. Note that Frosteez are not recommended for use by those suffering from hypothermia, unless thermoregulating chemicals are added.

Drink Dispenser: This dispenses beverages (each dispenser has eight slots) and has an additional dispenser for ice. Each dispenser chamber can be set to heat or chill contents separately to a reasonable level. Note that due to safety concerns (and to save on power costs) this will not operate below or above specific 'safe' temperatures.

Food Extruder: This 'delightful' device extrudes food paste, ideally mixed with flavor and coloring packets so as to resemble something other than tasteless protein paste. Often seen on low-cost passenger ships, military vessels and barracks, prison colonies, in corporate employee cafeterias, and in other places where fresh food is difficult to come by.

As you walk and move about on station, your starting nutrition bar will start to drain from starting green, down to dark red; if your hunger bar turns black, you've eaten way too much. The effects of fullness and hunger are equally bad, so it is best to stay at a happy medium. So keep in mind how much you've eaten and how long it has been since you last ate, and you will be fine.

Go with the rule that, “If you have a hard time getting it down, don't eat any more”. Note that nutrition is typically slow-release, so if you don't fill up immediately, you will in the near future.

Several reagents will increase your fullness:

• Very effective: Corn oil; Nutriment, found in most foods; Animal Protein, found in meat; and Egg Yolk.
• Somewhat effective: Ketchup; cocoa powder; Hot Ramen; Hell Ramen; Sugar.
• Minor increase: Soy Sauce; Hot Cocoa; Potato Juice; Bilk; Sprinkles; Dry Ramen; Flour; Rice; Cherry Jelly; Doctor's Delight; Beer; Thirteen Loko; Mead; Banana Mama.

If you drop to dark red, you move very slowly and your description reveals your lack of eating habits. You are starving; this is not good! You will move slowly until you eat some food, so head to the Chef for a burger or slice of meatbread!

Some things will decrease your hunger faster:

• Vomiting
• Being cold (by exposure to cold environments or because you were in a cryo tube)
• Recovering from blood loss
• Taking Lipozine
• Some viruses

If you eat too much, your description will note that you are “chubby”. Too little, and you will be described as “malnourished”.

IMPORTANT:

• Kahlua = Coffee Liqueur
• Vodka = Tunguska Triple Distilled
• Whiskey = Uncle Git's Special Reserve

Many of these drinks, while they do have toxic ingredients, are not toxic in and of themselves. However, because they have toxic ingredients, if you mess them up, you will poison your patrons–not something a good bartender wants to do. An evil one, though…

Alcoholic drinks contain ethanol. Each drink is scored on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being strongest. Depending on how much you drink, you may slur your speech, get dizzy, start stumbling around, and even pass out. Just as in real life, the more slowly you drink, the less you are affected by alcohol. Some species have special reactions to alcohol and will get drunk more quickly. Humans will take liver damage from drinking too much; this damage happens at around the same level where the character passes out.

Since a drinking glass will hold only 30 units of liquid, it's recommended that bartenders use their drink shakers to concoct these drinks before pouring them out.

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* Milk, Soy Milk, Berry Juice, Soy Sauce, Hot Sauce, Cold Sauce, and Sugar are all measured in reagent units rather than by number of containers. They can be poured directly into the microwave.

* Sliceable foods can be divided into smaller portions by slicing them. Their reagents are divided equally into the slices. The slices noted here are the maximum number of slices, which you can get by using a precise cutting tool like a kitchen knife, cleaver, or scalpel; crude cutting tools, like axes, shovels, and saws will result in fewer slices.

* Condiments are reagents can be added to food, possibly increasing their nutrition value or adding some fun extras. A chef can create condiments by grinding up things that contain them and isolating them in the CondiMaster in the back room. Condiments let you put ketchup on your fries, salt in your soup, dylovene on your fish fingers, or psilocybin on your ghost burger–the possibilities are endless. Foods hold a maximum of fifty units of reagents.

* Some poisonous foods can be prepared safely if Dylovene is added to the finished product, or if the poisonous reagent is neutralized somehow. Experienced chefs only!

* Poisonous reagents are marked in <span style=“color:red”>red text</span>. Reagents which have other, non-deadly effects–like intoxication, sleepiness, or the effects of hot or cold sauce–are marked in <span style=“color:blue”>blue text</span>.

* Traitor chefs can make some sneaky substitutions. Poisonous apples can be used in all apple dishes, and the final dish will be poisoned. Unlike poisonous mushrooms, cyanide apples can easily kill. Slime jelly can be substituted for cherry jelly, and will poison the resulting food. ** Anything made with meat can be made with human meat. (It's still necessary to emag the gibber before butchering one's murder victims.)

*'BUG NOTICE': The cake recipes are currently not functional because the flour and egg will react inside the microwave to make dough.

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Sliceable: 5 slices.

Equal chance of containing 3 units of one of the following: Nutriment, <span style=“color:blue”>capsaicin</span>, <span style=“color:blue”>frost oil</span>, sprinkles, <span style=“color:red”>phoron</span>, coco,<span style=“color:red”>Slime Jelly</span>, banana, berry juice, and tricordrazine.

May break the microwave; still obtainable via silver slime cores.

Sliceable: 5 slices.

Sliceable: 6 slices.

Sliceable: 6 slices

Sliceable: 5 slices. Bread slices can be turned into sandwiches by combining them with any food item.

5 Nutriment, 14 Tomato Juice

Sliceable: 5 Slices.

8 Nutriment, 3 Sugar

Sliceable: 5 Slices

Sliceable: 5 Slices

Sliceable: 5 Slices

Sliceable: 5 Slices

Sliceable: 5 Slices

When there's no chef, or the chef is serving unidentifiable, possibly toxic glop, most people resort to one of two things: grazing on produce or the vending machines.

Junk food requires no chef or machinery, but on the other hand, it's generally not as filling or interesting.

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Some reagents in the finished products are poisonous. If you're a Traitor, that may be the point, but if you're very good, you may want to serve these items safely. This is where a little chemistry can help neutralize or remove the dangerous reagents from your food.

Any given piece of food can contain only 50 units of reagents.

When using Dylovene, it's okay to use more than you strictly need. Other chemicals you might use to neutralize poison aren't so forgiving, and some are poisonous themselves.

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O-negative blood is always safe. Add one unit of Dylovene for every four units of blood. Alcoholic drinks made with blood, of any type, are safe; just be sure there is no blood left over after the reaction. Blood can also be neutralized with Clonexadone (1 unit Clonexadone to 5 units Blood), or by adding drink ingredients to create a blood-based drink.