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I've got hundreds of jugs full of royal jelly sitting around in my food stockpile, but my chef won't use them. They're enabled for cooking, of course - but if they're the only thing enabled, there's nothing solid to cook them with; and if there's something solid enabled, the chef sticks to solid ingredients.

[Laserhead]

Small linked stockpiles are the way to go when you want to precisely control cooking ingredients. Set up a one tile solid food only stockpile, and a multi tile royal jelly stockpile, and link both of them to the kitchen. A Cook should then grab the one solid food item and then however many stacks of royal jelly, assuming he gets to that before a hauler restocks the solid food.

[smjjames]

Trade them off? If the jugs aren't made from glass or wood, you should be able to sell to the elves.

[callisto8413]

Maybe the honey has to be put into pots?   I don't know.   I wish I had your problem.  How many hives do you have?

[Larix]

Linked stockpiles are the way to go, but it's important to use a 'solids' source pile with _no barrels_. Cooks give absolute priority to solid cookables contained in barrels (and to seeds for some reason), all other cookables will be ignored entirely if stuff in barrels is still available, no matter how far away. Once barrel-contained solids are out of the equation, other items will be used and distance to the kitchen governs the order in which they'll be used. So, stockpiles exclusively for milled flour, quarry leaves, eggs (yes, raw eggs are "solid") with zero barrels, and a closer stockpile with only royal jelly jugs. This works and can even be put on repeat with little supervision.

The no-barrels stockpile can be as large as you want, it's only important that it's further from the kitchen than the jelly/syrup/honey/oil stockpile.

[Urist MacNoob]

If only it were possible to create a royal jelly drowning chamber...

[Snaake]

If you want to micromanage and do it manually, you can also forbid everything except the royal jelly and eg. 1 type of prepared organ (of which you'll usually only have 1-2 each, in one stack), or all except 1 stack of meat/fish/whatever. The cook can then use only that one solid ingredient stack, but however many liquid ones if he can.

The linked, barrel-less, 1-tile solid food stockpile is probably the way to go, though. Should probably give it a shot myself, my previous attempt with 1-tile linked stockpiles (1 per "category", i.e. 1 each for fish, meat, eggs, raw cookable plants, etc.) failed pretty bad. The problem with the 1-tile stockpile system in general is that your haulers will take much longer to noticed that that one tile needs to be filled, than a legendary cook will take cooking the meal. And then the cooking job gets cancelled (or with workflow, suspended), and you have to keep re-enabling it.