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Cooking at the electric grill and food poisoning.


Does cooking germy food items kill germs?  

19 members have voted

  1. 1. Does cooking germy food items kill germs?

    • Yes
      9
    • No
      2
    • Don't know.
      8
  2. 2. Should it kill the germs?

    • Yes
      14
    • No
      2
    • Yes, it already does - this is what it's supposed to do.
      3


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I'am personally against cooking being a way to remove germs, because I feel like it makes the game a little less interesting (except if you set that as your fantasy restriction). But I can imagine how new players might find it hard to deal with germs, as about half the newbie questions revolve around germs, the other half being water cooling.

Thought that I read that somewhere in the description. It makes sense that it would. It doesn't make sense coming out of the microbe musher, but I don't really know if it's actually coming out hot or not.

9 hours ago, clickrush said:

I'am personally against cooking being a way to remove germs, because I feel like it makes the game a little less interesting (except if you set that as your fantasy restriction).

Well, that is how it works in real life...

47 minutes ago, PhailRaptor said:

Well, that is how it works in real life...

I don't find the real life argument to be more important than the design argument. In ONI there are a lot of mechanism that are very far from real life but they are fun.

That said, that is not how it works in real life at all. There are a lot of things you can't cook out of contaminated food. Some you can cook out, but there are a lot of different types of contamination / food poisoning which you can't.

The germs you can kill by cooking will still stick all over the place when you handle them, meaning you have to work extremely cleanly to prevent spreading germs even if you cook the food.

Working cleanly and cooking food are also just supportive measures you do anyways. But the main measure to prevent food poisoning is to use fresh and clean products, and store them according to hygiene law, so they never contaminate in the first place. And you certainly never use contaminated water if you want avoid food poisoning.

So back to ONI: If your food or water is full of germs your dupes should get food poisoning even if you cook it according to real life. But again the real question here is wether that is better or worse gameplay.

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