Advanced Cooking Techniques and Utility Items Guide

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This guide covers advanced cooking techniques, complex recipes, and utility items in Kaleidoscope Cookery. The mod enhances your culinary adventure with immersive cooking systems and delicious recipes.

Shawarma Spit Cooking

The Shawarma Spit allows for advanced food preparation. You can place ingredients in both its upper and lower layers. Each layer can hold up to 8 smeltable food items, but all items within a single layer must be of the same type.

To begin cooking, provide the Shawarma Spit with a redstone signal. After a period of time, the cooking process will complete.

Removing cooked food requires care. If you remove food with bare hands from an activated Shawarma Spit, the food will burn. To safely retrieve the cooked items, either use a Kitchen Knife or deactivate the Shawarma Spit before removing the food.

Crafting the Shawarma Spit

You can craft a Shawarma Spit using 4 Chain and 2 Campfire.

Grease Crock Usage

The Grease Crock is a utility item for managing oil. To store oil, open the lid of the Grease Crock.

You can use the stored oil to grease your Kitchen Shovels. Each greasing action consumes 1 portion of oil from the Grease Crock. A greased Kitchen Shovel can then be used to add oil to a Wok.

Crafting the Grease Crock

A Grease Crock is crafted with a Stone Button, a Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate, and a Bucket.

Crafting the Oil Can

An Oil Can is crafted using a Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate, a Bucket, and a Stick.

Teapot Recipes

The Teapot is used to create various teas from different ingredients. There are 6 known recipes for the Teapot:

Wheat Seeds produce Barley Tea.
Nautilus Shell produces Biluochun.
Dandelion produces Flower Tea.
Dragon's Breath produces Oolong.
Pink Petals produce Sakura Fubuki.
Iron Nugget produces Tieguanyin.

Where oil comes from

The Grease Crock stores oil, but it does not make any. There are two sources, and they scale very differently.

Killing pigs, piglins or hoglins with a kitchen knife yields Oil directly, which works early but is finite and slow. The Millstone is the renewable route: any seeds ground in it produce oil, so a wheat or chili farm feeding a mill keeps the crock full without touching an animal.

Nine Oil compress into an Oil Block for storage, and the block breaks back into nine.

The knives

Kitchen knives share one shape — three of the material plus a stick — and come in iron, gold and diamond, with the Netherite Kitchen Knife upgraded from the diamond one at a smithing table using a netherite upgrade template and a netherite ingot. The tier changes durability and how the knife performs as a weapon, not what it can cut or which recipes it unlocks.

That matters for the Shawarma Spit, where a knife is the safe way to take food off a running spit, and for the Chopping Board, where every recipe takes four strikes and returns two items whichever knife you hold.