[Suggestion] Gas Stove - Biofuel gets used too fast

92 votes

For How long it takes to fill the fuel can with bio fuel as opposed to how quickly the stove uses's the bio fuel in the fuel canis a little bit off. You can cook maybe 5 pieces of food with 1 full fuel can. Should be able to cook alot longer than that and can we get it to cook all recipes at once?

Done Balance Suggested by: Termsta (09 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 11 Nov, '23 • Comments: 18

Comments: 18

10 Oct, '21
Hevy
Bio fuel definitely gets burned up way too fast when used for cooking.
10 Oct, '21
tonythegardener
Especially as it says it is supposed to be more efficient. I'd be find with the burn rate if it significantly sped up the cook times.
10 Oct, '21
Katie
One can of biofuel was able to cook 22 fish in the gas stove. To make that fuel, it took 500 sticks, 100 tree sap (from another 400 sticks), and 8 minutes and 27 seconds (!) waiting for the can to fill. Plus I had to use 25 iron to make the fuel can. To cook the same number of fish in the campfire took only 110 sticks, without the can and without the waiting. Unless I’m missing something, it's not worth learning to make biofuel at all. Unfortunately, it feels like going backwards rather than being a higher tier, more convenient and efficient workstation. Please make it more worthwhile and useful!
10 Oct, '21
MikeWynne Merged
This needs seriously looked at. It consumes the fuel very fast. On the kitchen I can only cook a few pieces of meat on a can. This is a huge downgrade and waste of resource and time for what it takes to fill the can. It is far more effecient to just throw wood on the fireplace that lasts forever.
11 Oct, '21
Terry Merged
I just got a Gas Oven to try out. Uses the BioFuel.

Filled up a gas can half way with fuel, put 3 steaks in the Oven and activated the oven. By the time the 3 steaks were cooked, I barely had about 1/8th of the gas can left.

Surely this consumption is unreasonable given how many resources to takes to fill up the gas can, vs if you used it on a basic fire how long it would last.

Also, the indicator to show consumption of the Gas, does not work.

Something is not right with this yet.

EDIT: I just did a test on the Potbelly stove. For 3 steaks, it is just over 1 stick of Wood.

Definitely not right with that Oven.
11 Oct, '21
SnS Merged
Kitchen use biofuel to fast for coking. it take 1 full tin to make 20 bread.
11 Oct, '21
Chris
It burns too fast and really even though it's not super realistic everything things an auto shutoff that isn't producing heat etc, so we can queue up stuff and go about doing other stuff instead of constantly babysitting all the stuff we have crafting.
11 Oct, '21
Kurizo Merged
When cooking meat using the kitchen, things should cook quicker than in a campfire/fireplace. The Kitchen biofuel consumption rate is a bit extreme.
12 Oct, '21
Andrew
Fuel usage was way too high, one log burnt for longer than the entire gas can
12 Oct, '21
Mantauk
Biofuel/Stove seems only useful for bread. The cost outweighs the benefit. Ditto what others have already posted.
13 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin
"Gas Oven - Biofuel consumption rate too high" (suggested by Terry on 2021-10-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin
"Coking with biofuel expend to fast." (suggested by SnS on 2021-10-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin
"BioFuel Can" (suggested by MikeWynne on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
14 Oct, '21
Elissa - Producer Admin
"Cooking in kitchen as slow as campfire/fireplace but burns tons of biofuel" (suggested by Kurizo on 2021-10-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
23 Oct, '21
DerpAlert
100 tree sap and 100 wood to cook 8 steaks on something that took 50 iron and 25 steel to make and fuel. Fuel usage needs major balancing.
25 Oct, '21
Epiphany
The gas stove, potbelly stove, and fireplace all are inferior to the campfire. The only advantage they offer is more slots (more space for food to spoil) and they dont cook any faster, use less fuel, etc. The time and materials needed to fill a gas can should alot for cooking more than a few pieces of meat as well.
06 Oct, '22
Sabre070 - Designer Admin
Fuel consumption on the stove has been significantly reduced since this was suggested, thanks for the feedback!
17 May, '24
Stefan
So this suggestion is DONE?