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[Aigre Excalibur]

You are cooking apprentices in the mountainhome, all aspiring to be given the opportunity to become the next legendary chef. As such, grandmaster Ramses Gorgo is holding a competition to find the best chefs in the realm to enter his esteemed chef's guild that is endowed with all the best resources so that the best chefs can cook the best meals for the best and most noble dwarves in the multiverse.

(OOC: I want an arms race/design game that's both accessible and that can be approached at professional levels. Few mortals can actually describe military engineering properly... but anyone can cook! or at least tinker about in a kitchen. The literature is also far more accessible for anyone who needs to do research into how to make a working dish.)

Game Phases:

Design Cooking Phase:

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Come up with recipes for each dish to be presented in the dining phase. A recipe goes into detail on at least 3 components: A core concept, the ingredients used, and the processes used for cooking.

Example: Mushroom and cheese Omelette

Concept: A classic dish of filled beaten eggs oozing with cheesy goodness and fresh juicy mushrooms.

Ingredients:
Brown Mushrooms
Cheese
Eggs

Process:
Beat eggs in a bowl

Pre-cook the mushrooms in a pan until they start to sizzle. Then remove into a bowl.

Pour the egg mixture into the pan.

Gently move cooked portions from edges toward the center with inverted turner so that uncooked eggs can reach the hot pan surface. Continue cooking, tilting pan and gently moving cooked portions as needed.

When top surface of eggs is thickened and no visible liquid egg remains, place the mushroom and cheese filling on one side of the omelet. Fold the omelette in half. With a quick flip of the wrist, turn pan and slide the omelette onto plate. Serve immediately.

Dinner service

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1. Anyone in the audience can rate the dishes. The total ratings will be tallied and averaged.

2. Each item is rated on a scale of 1 to 5 according to these categories:

Description - How well your food looks on text

Process - How well the cooking methods used on your food looks on text

Dwarfiness (originality) - Meta note: Dwarf nobles favor bizarre and rich foods. The more creative your ingredients and dishes are, the better. But it all needs to come together to make a good and flavorful dish.

Appeal - An arbitrary value where judges decide on what they think about the overall taste and balance.

The total score for each dish is 20.

If multiple courses are served, the average score is taken with the following modifiers to the total score:

+2 for every dish With a score above 17

+1 for every dish scoring above 15

-1 for every dish scoring below 10

Naturally, the highest scoring player wins the round and gains 1 victory point. We will go as many rounds as we feel like it.

Acquisition and Revision Phase:

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After each dinner, the contestants will be allowed to run around the mountainhome to look for new ingredients or visit specialists to improve on ingredients you already have.
You get one acquisition and one refinement each round. Randomness in outcome will probably be standard D6 RTD or GM fiat. You can also trade ingredients among contestants without restriction.

An example of an ingredient acquisition will be something like: Go to the butcher's to acquire kitten intestines.

An example of a revision or refinement of an ingredient will be something like: Arrange for a special portion of kittens set aside for your use to be force-fed beer so that their livers can be harvested with extra grease and fatty acids. The ingredient you improve on will be just the liver. Not a whole drunken kitten.

Note that for all meats you will never just acquire cat meat or pig meat or cow meat. You should specify the cut you want to the butcher. Like Kitten's prime rib. The soft forebrain of a human prisoner. The brisket of a cow. If you fail to specify sufficiently we'll default to the junk that goes into mince.

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Game rounds and game start:

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Ingredient counts:

Each ingredient can only be used once. If you want to use an ingredient for more than one dish, you must buy it twice. If you intend to use a refined ingredient more than once, you must buy it multiple times for each use. All herbs and spices count as ingredients. EDIT: New rule - Salt and pepper are free.

Round one

In the first round each contestant picks 3 ingredients. These are permanent choices so choose your starting loadout carefully.

You are cooking a relatively simple 3 ingredient dish for the assistant to the assistant to the assistant royal foodtaster's chambermaid. It is suggested that each contestant prepares a main course, but do what you like.

After each contestant has their dish we move on to judgement in the dinner service phase. There the audience will give their votes to give scores to each contestant according to the judging categories.

After that we go to the revision phase where each contestant can pick one new ingredient and one revision of an ingredient.

Subsequent rounds:

Every round sees the maximum ingredient count increased by 1. There are no restrictions on the number of courses served by each chef after round 1. Only round 1 is a 1 course meal.

Sample Signup

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Name: Jaimee Oliver
Description: The less angry archrival of Ramses Gorgo
Ingredients:
Salmon Fillet taken from the belly
Olive Oil
Rosemary

Quick reference:
https://www.businessinsider.com/beef-cuts-chart-2014-10/?IR=T&r=SG
http://chefpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fish_Cuts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doneness
https://chefpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bar_and_Beverage_Terminology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cocktails

[Aigre Excalibur]

Reserved for contents list as such.

[Rockeater]

Ptw

[Aigre Excalibur]

Are there any dwarves brave enough to try cooking?

[NUKE9.13]

Alright, so, I like the basic concept, but I have some comments.
First, the assertion that cooking is far simpler to describe than military engineering is ludicrous. But whatever.
I think you're asking for too much detail from people. Selecting the exact cut of meat? I sort of see where you're coming from, but I think you could simplify this without losing too much. I'd just use discretion to decide if someone is being overbroad with an ingredient request, rather than make it a hard rule.
I think only getting to add one ingredient each turn is a bit limiting. That won't allow you to mix things up much from meal to meal. I'd say either allow for two new ingredients each turn, or maybe one new ingredient and swap one existing ingredient for a new one.
Also, salt should be a free ingredient.

[Pavellius]

Joining

[NUKE9.13]

Anyway, like I said, I like the basic concept, so here's a signup sheet:

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Name: Rithar Imnel
Description: A young dwarf, fond of baking.
Ingredients:
Cave Wheat Flour
Dwarven Butter
Whole Rat

[High tyrol]

Here is my signup sheet.

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Name: Zefon Idenasob
Description: A young dwarf who loves eggs.
Ingredients:
Turkey eggs
goat cheese(Something like a Caprino cheese)
pork belly.

[crazyabe]

PTW

[Aigre Excalibur]

I'm adding a new rule that Table Salt and Lampong Black Peppercorns (that's the most common one for steaks) shall be free. But just that.

Edit: I like the swap idea, so how's this - rather than swapping with NPCs, you can trade any number of ingredients you have with each other, effective on mutual agreement.

I'll wait for Pavellius to get their sheet done, then we shall get cooking!

[NUKE9.13]

Swapping with other players could definitely be interesting, and would allow for more dish diversity- especially having to use the same meat round after round could get boring.

[Pavellius]

Thanks for waiting.

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Name: Grobro Thnideer
Description: A big dwarf with big dreams.
Ingredients:
Plump Helmet
Cow's Milk
Cow's Udder

[Aigre Excalibur]

"Good Gentledwarves and Gentledwarfwomen, we are gathered here today to witness the rise of some of our progeny into the ranks of the best chefs known to dwarvernkind!

Without further ado, I want you all to impress us! go ahead. Cook us something with what you have on you."

It is now the cooking phase! Contestants come up with their Recipe(s) to present for judgment in the dining phase. Remember you are judged on Description, Process, Dwarfiness (originality) and overall appeal.

We'll continue to take new applicants as they come.

Spoiler: Rithar Imnel (click to show/hide)

Name: Rithar Imnel
Description: A young dwarf, fond of baking.
Ingredients:
Cave Wheat Flour
Dwarven Butter
Whole Rat

Spoiler: Zefon Idenasob (click to show/hide)

Name: Zefon Idenasob
Description: A young dwarf who loves eggs.
Ingredients:
Turkey eggs
goat cheese(Something like a Caprino cheese)
pork belly.

Spoiler: Grobro Thnideer (click to show/hide)

Name: Grobro Thnideer
Description: A big dwarf with big dreams.
Ingredients:
Plump Helmet
Cow's Milk
Cow's Udder

[NUKE9.13]

Spoiler: Rat Pasty (click to show/hide)

Concept: Fresh, juicy rat, baked in crunchy pastry. The pastry keeps the rat warm for a while, so it's perfect for eating on the go!

Ingredients:
Cave Wheat Flour
Dwarven Butter
Whole Rat

Process:
Add diced butter and a pinch of salt to flour in bowl. Rub butter into flour with hands, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add just enough cold water to form a ball- careful, too much and the pastry will get soggy!
Cover the bowl with a cloth and place in icebox.

Now, prepare the rat. Remove the skin (some people prefer shaving the rat and leaving the skin on, but I prefer skinless), then slice the meat from the bones. Chop the meat into rough chunks, then season with salt and pepper. (Set aside the bones and unused organs for making stock).

Now, take the chilled pastry and roll it out into a circle, about 5mm thick. Place the rat meat in the centre, then fold pastry upwards from both sides and pinch together. Use extra pastry and a knife to make the pasty resemble a rat, which always brings a smile to people's faces. Finally, brush the pasty with a little melted butter, and bake in a pre-heated oven for 40-50 minutes.

Something like this, yes?

[Aigre Excalibur]

Yep it's perfect. One recipe like that for each dish!

Now what temperature do you bake the rat at? do dwarves have mercury thermometers? Maybe some do.