05-02-2016, 09:38 AM (This post was last modified: 05-02-2016, 01:40 PM by Noah Buttes. Edited 1 time in total.
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This is a great idea, and is a good way to get the ball rolling.
off-topic rant below:
I think there are some other issues with botany and the kitchen that this doesn't really address.
For one, most of botany's useful niches have been eliminated. Thanks to the overabundance of most medicines nowadays, you don't have to rely on the botanists to produce medicinal herbs because lord knows chemistry never makes meds. QM doesn't need botany to grow produce because they can just order non-cardlocked hydroponics starter crates. Chemistry only ever interacts with botany to get saltpetre for black powder. Hell, even the chef rarely needs botany anymore since the foodtech vendor got upgraded.Botany has been effectively relegated to explosive bananas, rainbow melons, weed, and ghostlier chilies.
The problem with cooking is that there's absolutely no room for experimentation. The only way to learn recipes outside of looking them up is through trial and error. However, there's no ROOM for error when cooking. If you fuck up even the slightest amount, you get a useless pile of garbage. Not to mention, no matter how much effort you put into a dish, unless you cheat and directly put reagents in it, it will always be worse than just a simple warm donk pocket. The chef is easily replaced by a microwave.
It's even worse for the barman, whose only purpose in life is to get people so drunk they die of alcohol poisoning.
In short,
Botany CAN be very useful, but it has no niches to fill right now.
The kitchen borders on practical uselessness.
There's a reason why barmen start with a Russian revolver. It's probably the most fun they'll have.
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