Electric stove
Electric stove
An electrically-powered stove with an attached countertop for preparing meals.
Base Stats
- Type
- Building – Production
- Market Value
- 225
[Note] - Mass
- 20 kg
- HP
- 180
- Flammability
- 100%
- Path Cost
- 50 (21%)
Building
- Size
- 3 × 1
- Minifiable
- True
- Placeable
- True
- Passability
- pass through only
- Cover Effectiveness
- 50%
- Terrain Affordance
- Medium
- Power
- -350 W
- Heat Per Second
- 3
- Room Role
- Kitchen
- Work Table not in Room Role Factor
- 80%
Creation
- Required Research
- Electricity
- Skill Required
- Construction 4
- Work To Make
- 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs)
- Resources to make
80 + 
2- Deconstruct yield
- 40 + 1
- Destroy yield
- 20 + 0 - 1
The electric stove is a production bech used for preparing meals and psychite tea. It is the powered equivalent to the fueled stove.
Acquisition[edit]
Electric stoves can be constructed once the Electricity research project has been completed. Each requires 80 Steel, 2 Components, 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder, and a construction skill of 4.
Summary[edit]
To order a product, select the stove, click "Bills" and "Add Bill" to choose a product type to create one of the following:
| Name | Materials | Work to Make | Required Research | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Psychite tea
|
 4
|
400 ticks (6.67 secs) | Psychoid brewing | Drug - Social drug |
| 4× Psychite tea
|
16
|
1,600 ticks (26.67 secs) | Psychoid brewing | Drug - Social drug |
 Carnivore fine meal
|
0.75 Nutrition (meat) | 450 ticks (7.5 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 4× Carnivore fine meal
|
3 Nutrition (meat) | 1,800 ticks (30 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
 Carnivore lavish meal
|
1.25 Nutrition (meat) | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 4× Carnivore lavish meal
|
5 Nutrition (meat) | 3,200 ticks (53.33 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
 Fine meal
|
0.25 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 0.25 Nutrition (vegan) | 450 ticks (7.5 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 4× Fine meal
|
1 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 1 Nutrition (vegan) | 1,800 ticks (30 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
 Lavish meal
|
0.5 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 0.5 Nutrition (vegan) | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 4× Lavish meal
|
2 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 2 Nutrition (vegan) | 3,200 ticks (53.33 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
 Packaged survival meal
|
0.3 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 0.3 Nutrition (vegan) | 450 ticks (7.5 secs) | Packaged survival meal | Food - Meal |
| 4× Packaged survival meal
|
1.2 Nutrition (non-vegan) + 1.2 Nutrition (vegan) | 1,800 ticks (30 secs) | Packaged survival meal | Food - Meal |
16×  Pemmican
|
0.25 Nutrition (meat) + 0.25 Nutrition (vegan) | 700 ticks (11.67 secs) | Pemmican | Food - Meal |
| 64× Pemmican
|
1 Nutrition (meat) + 1 Nutrition (vegan) | 2,800 ticks (46.67 secs) | Pemmican | Food - Meal |
 Simple meal
|
0.5 Nutrition (any) | 300 ticks (5 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 4× Simple meal
|
2 Nutrition (any) | 1,200 ticks (20 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
 Vegetarian fine meal
|
0.75 Nutrition (vegetarian) | 450 ticks (7.5 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 4× Vegetarian fine meal
|
3 Nutrition (vegetarian) | 1,800 ticks (30 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
 Vegetarian lavish meal
|
1.25 Nutrition (vegetarian) | 800 ticks (13.33 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 4× Vegetarian lavish meal
|
5 Nutrition (vegetarian) | 3,200 ticks (53.33 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
10×  Baby food 
|
0.25 Nutrition (vegetarian) | 450 ticks (7.5 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
| 40× Baby food
|
1 Nutrition (vegetarian) | 1,800 ticks (30 secs) | – | Food - Meal |
An active electric stove will generate some heat.
Analysis[edit]
Some sort of meal production is practically essential for standard pawns, due to the mood penalty and food poisoning chance of raw food, as well as the fact that cooking food increases nutritional efficiency. Unlike campfires and fueled stoves, electric stoves do not require constant wood. Even if using a wood-fired generator for power, an electric stove will typically be more efficient overall, since the generator produces an extra 650 W that can be used for any other appliance.
Any colonist that prepares a meal has a chance to contaminate it and cause food poisoning. That chance is determined by the colonist's stat for Food Poison Chance, which is determined by their cooking skill level. A level 0 cook has a 5% chance. A level 9 cook and above has a 0.1% chance, while extremely rare, it can still happen. A player would likely want to use the best cooker available to minimize food poisoning chances.
Vegetarian simple meals can be forced by removing all meat options from the simple meal bill. Vegetarian fine/lavish meals are their own separate bill, which require more resources than their regular counterparts.
Compared to nutrient paste[edit]
Nutrient paste dispensers require no cook, have better nutrition efficiency, and have zero food posioning chance, but nutrient paste meals provide −4 mood to standard colonists. Therefore, using nutrient paste is recommended for colonies with no good cook, or at the start of the game when both food and time are of short supply. They can also help control the spread of metalhorrors,
which can spread through cooked meals.
Nutrient paste dispensers will also prevent pawns from grabbing meals and eating away from a dining room. This will ensure that colonists get the mood boost and avoid eating without a table, at the cost of work efficiency when traveling far away.
The Eating nutrient paste: Don't mind precept
will prevent the mood buffs from eating nutrient paste, although pawns will still lose out on the mood buff from eating fine meals or lavish meals.
Version history[edit]
- 0.2.363 - added as "cook stove"