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[shmelse]

I've noticed that my cook isn't using dwarven syrup.  It's in the stockpike right next to his kitchen (along with elephant meat, sugar, flour, and cheese) but he's never choosing to pick it up and cook with it.  Any ideas why he's ignoring it or what I can do to make him use it up?  He's preferring to head quite far away to use cheaper meats rather than the syrup that's right next to him.

[Illanair]

I believe it's been mentioned that chefs will prefer using solid ingredients over fluids.

[shlorf]

Yeah the only way you can make him use a syrup barrel is turn only a few solid items on in the kitchen section of the stocks menu and then forbid all but one stack from the selected items. If you bother to micromanage that much you can get some big stacks of food tho.

[BigD145]

Is your kitchen in its own room? Lock him inside the room.

[Nameless Archon]

When I have elephant products, flour, sugar and syrup, and I want a cook to make something from just these four ingredients specifically, I go into the kitchen menu and turn off cooking for everything else before requesting my lavish meals.

Bang: Lavish meals containing syrup.

If you want them to use syrup (say, to consume your stocks and free barrels up) then using the kitchen menu is teh simplest way, but it requires some micromanagement (to make sure you always have the desired umber of ingredients allowed, etc).

[shmelse]

Thanks, guys, I'll definitely try this.  One problem is that I have a constant influx of flour/sugar due to the millers, but I can just turn that off for now and let him use up the syrup first. 

And yes, Ill, I should have realized that syrup counted under the liquid rule just like everything else. =P  Thanks to everyone else for humoring my dumbness. 

[shmelse]

Awesome!  I'm getting stacks of 35 syrup/elephant pies worth 20K and one stack of syrup/FB meat worth 94K!  Thanks, guys!  =D