How to Heat Stoves and Use Top-Mounted Cookware

Unlike a standard furnace that handles every meal in a single block, Culinary Hearthstone separates your primary heat source from your cooking vessels. Most specialized cookware requires an active Stove underneath to function.

Fueling and Cooking Directly on the Stove

1. Craft a Stove and place it on the floor of your base.

2. Right-click the Stove to open its interface and insert a fuel item into the bottom slot to start heating it up.

3. To cook directly inside the Stove without extra cookware, place one ingredient into its cooking slot. As fuel burns, the Stove yields a main dish along with an optional byproduct.

Mounting Cookware on Top

Pans, Pots, and Bamboo Steamers do not have fuel slots of their own; instead, they rely on heat rising from a lit Stove below.

1. Hold a Pan, Pot, or Bamboo Steamer in your hand.

2. Crouch and right-click the top of your Stove block so you place the cookware onto it rather than opening the Stove menu.

3. Ensure the Stove underneath has fuel burning in its bottom slot.

4. Right-click the mounted cookware to open its interface, then place your ingredients into the slots to begin cooking.