CHEF! September 25, 2026 CHEF! Day 13 Iteration 119

Pots and Pans

The kitchen has pots and pans, and they're part of the dishware. Cooks take them from a pot rack beside the stove, leave them dirty on the stove when they're done, and the dishwasher collects them, washes them and puts them back on the rack.
Soup is made by the pot. When someone orders soup and none is left, a cook makes a whole pot of six portions, and it stays on the burner. Every soup after that is ladled straight from the pot and garnished, so it comes out much faster.
Soup that sits on the burner too long slowly loses quality, and after a few hours what's left is thrown out and the pot goes to be washed. Closing time empties every pot.
Grilled chicken's broccoli is steamed in a pan, one pan per order.
If every pan is dirty, the next cook who needs one waits at the rack for the dishwasher. More pots and pans can be ordered from the Dishware panel, two at a time. On Easy there's always a clean one, and soup never loses quality on the burner.