Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31507215-20170502203436

Note: ''This suggestion uses a lot of stuff from On the Cooking of Meat with Alcohol, one of my earlier suggestions. That suggestion focused more on new advanced cooking mechanics, but in this one, I will be focusing more on the skillet itself.''

Currently, the only ways to cook food (that I know of) are with a furnace (ok), a hobbit oven (better), and a kebab stand (?). These are all (at least) relatively decent ways to cook, but not super realistic ones. Because of that, I am proposing that skillets should be added. Here is how they should work:

Crafting
The skillet would be crafted with 3 copper and 1 iron like this:

If crafted on a hobbit crafting table, it would yield a Hobbit Skillet, which has slightly different properties. (Credit to MrHobit1234.)

Usage
The Skillet would be a placeable utility block/entity, and a weapon.

Weapon
(I am addressing this first, because this will be a shorter section.)

The skillet would be a handheld weapon, kind of like a small Warhammer. It would take damage when it is used as a weapon, but how many uses it has is up to the mod team. Here are its stats: Attack Damage=4, Reach=100%, Swing Speed=80%, Knockback=1. (These stats are not set in stone, but I figured that they would be moderately balanced.) When an entity is hit with the skillet, there should be a loud “bong!” noise. The hobbit skillet should have the same attack damage and reach, but would lose the knockback and have 110% swing speed instead.

Cooking
The main use for the skillet is cooking. (For the ease of understanding, and not having to type more than necessary, I will refer to the time it takes to cook one object in a vanilla furnace as a “cooking tick”.)

The skillet would act similar to a mixture of a plate and a kebab stand. When placed, the skillet would become a block entity that looks similar to a retextured plate with a rim and a handle. To cook with it, it has to be placed on top of a forge, like a kebab stand. Now we get to the fun part! To start the cooking process, you would place food items in the skillet, like a plate. Unlike a plate, however, you can only place 8 items in it at most, and some food items should not be able to be cooked in the skillet. (I will list them later on in the suggestion.)Then, you would have to put fuel in the furnace underneath it, like a kebab stand. Then, the items would cook. (If possible, brown-ish yellow-ish splash particles should come out of the pan, and it should make a sizzling noise.) All the items would cook simultaneously, and would all be cooked after 4 cooking ticks. There is a catch, however. If the food stays in the skillet for longer than 1 cooking tick after it is cooked, all the food turns into charcoal dust! This will make it more realistic, as in real life, you have to pay attention to your cooking so that it does not burn, instead of just leaving it in an oven. To pull your food back out, you would right click on the skillet.

Again, these specifics are very up to revision, but this is how I think it should work.

The hobbit skillet should cook the food in 3 cooking ticks, and wait 3 ticks before burning it. (Or something like that.)

Foods
There are certain foods that should not be able to be cooked in a skillet, but there are also two special foods that should only be able to be made in a skillet. (Yes, “foods” is a word!)

The foods that should not be able to be cooked in a skillet (that can be cooked in a furnace) are grapes, conkers, turnips, potatoes, and yams.

This suggestion would involve the addition of three new food items, as well, but these are definitely optional. Egg: Currently, eggs are only useful for pastries, and only a few kinds need them. So, you should be able to make fried egg by right clicking on a skillet with an egg. If pulled out of the skillet early, the egg would disappear. Fried egg, when eaten, should restore food hunger points, and probably 4 saturation as well. Chips: These are most definitely lore, as Sam mentions wanting taters so he could make some when he, Frodo, and Gollum are in ithilien. If a raw potato is crafted on a Hobbit crafting table, it should become 4 raw chips. These chips can only be cooked on a Hobbit Skillet, but would be well worth it. When cooked chips are eaten, they would restore of both hunger and saturation points.

Achievements
Three new achievements should be added along with this suggestion. (Only one, if you don’t include the new foods.)

[I have got to get me one of these!] Awarded for killing a foe with a skillet.

[Mind you don’t break ‘em!] Awarded for pulling a successfully fried egg out of a skillet.

[Keep your nasty chips!] Awarded for eating cooked chips.

P.S. I am trying to find a way to work olive oil in, so any support on that will be appreciated.

So, that’s my suggestion! Adding skillets will make cooking more fun, and realistic. It would also add a new kitchen fight/decoration item.

Suggestions and Criticism welcome!

 