Mini-Fridge
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Carpenter's Shop for 3,000g; "Gus' Famous Omelet" Special Order |
The Mini-Fridge is extra kitchen storage that the stove treats as part of the pantry. Anything kept inside counts as available when a recipe is cooked, so a farmer no longer has to carry eggs and milk in the backpack to make breakfast. Robin sells one at the Carpenter's Shop once the farmhouse has its kitchen, and Gus hands one over for free to anyone who stocks the Saloon fridge with eggs for him. It holds as much as the main refrigerator does, and several can stand side by side, which is how a serious cook ends up with a wall of them before a big cooking push.
Overview
The kitchen has to exist first. The upgrade that adds a stove and a refrigerator to the farmhouse is also what makes the Mini-Fridge placeable, so one bought or won too early sits in the inventory until Robin finishes the building work. From then on it can go anywhere inside the farmhouse, and the farmhouse on Ginger Island takes them too. The cellar is the one room that will not have it.
Cooking looks for ingredients in a fixed order, and knowing that order saves a lot of good produce. The game checks the backpack first, then the main refrigerator, then any Mini-Fridges, and within each of those it reads from the bottom right slot back towards the top left. Pressing the organise button rearranges a fridge in that same direction, which means the lowest quality copy of an ingredient tends to be eaten first.
That ordering can be used on purpose. A recipe that accepts any fish will happily swallow a Tuna that a more specific dish needs, so putting a Mussel in the bottom right corner of the fridge means the cheap fish goes into the Sashimi and the Tuna survives for the Fish Taco. Anyone cooking in bulk arranges the fridge once and then stops worrying about it.
With more than one fridge in the room, the search runs through them in the order they were first put down, starting with the most recent and working back. Where they stand makes no difference at all, so a tidy row along one wall behaves exactly like fridges scattered around the house.
Notes
Gus's egg order is the free route and worth taking the first time it appears on the Special Orders board. Delivering a couple of dozen eggs of any kind to the Saloon fridge inside the fortnight pays a decent sum of gold and a Mini-Fridge besides, which saves three thousand at Robin's counter.
Nothing will buy a Mini-Fridge back, so the only cost of owning several is the floor space they take up indoors. Two of them beside the stove is plenty for most kitchens, since each one matches the main refrigerator for capacity and the pair of them together hold more than a season of cooking needs.
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