Kitchen

It is used to cook prepared meals and render fat from butchered animals into tallow.

Cooking meals applies a quality modifier to each ingredient, which drastically increases the food's value (up to 100x). Cooked meals count as each of their ingredients for the purpose of satisfying your dwarves' preferences, increasing the likelihood of happy thoughts while eating.

Finally, cooking spoilable foods such as meat, fish, and plants will deter rot, but any seeds from cooked plants are lost.

Labors: Cooking