Oxygen Not Included

Oxygen Not Included

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Kitchen with Freezer
By Yvairel
An automated kitchen with Sterile Deep Freeze infinite food storage.
   
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Intro
Compact kitchen that can be constructed next to a Great Hall. The Auto-Sweeper to the furthest left will be able to insert finished food products into the fridge beyond the Pneumatic Door. The two empty tiles below the metal cooling blocks should be filled with CO2 to achieve the "Sterile Atmosphere" necessary to completely stop food spoilage when combined with the freezing temperatures provided by the Natural Gas - Thermo-Regulator cooling loop.


Example integration with a Great Hall
Construction
More construction info coming soon.

Automation
Conveyor
The middle Auto-Sweeper will handle delivering ingredients to the cooking appliances and delivering finished food stuffs to the edible food storage.

The left Auto-Sweeper will handle delivering editable food stuffs to the fridge so dupes can eat. I generally set the fridge to only allow 2-5kg of food at a time to prevent too much of it spoiling in the fridge.

Cooking Ingredients (Manual Use Allowed):
This Conveyor Loader should allow anything that can spoil that is not a dupe allowed edible item.

Examples:
  • All Cooking Ingredients
  • Meat
  • Mushroom
  • Pacu Fillet

Things to be Eaten (Manual Use Allowed):
This Conveyor Loader should allow anything that dupes are allowed to eat.

Examples:
  • Surf n' Turf
  • Omelette

Waste (Rotten Food) (Manual Use Allowed):
This Conveyor Loader should accept Rotten Food and Polluted Dirt to allow the left-most Auto-Sweeper to clear any rotten food out of the storage if something decomposes while cooling down the Freezer.

Liquid
You have two options for cooling the Thermo-Regulator to start:

1. Use a external liquid cooling loop to keep the contained Thermo-Regulator cool
2. Remove the blocks above the Thermo-Regulator and let it throw heat into the region above the freezer.

If you do #2 then you will likely want to build the Thermo-Regulator out of Gold Amalgam so it has less chance of overheating. You may also need to mess with the Thermo Sensor to turn off the Thermo-Regulator and let it even out for a minute before turning it back on during the initial cooling phase.

After initially cooling the metal, oil, and CO2 blocks to -35C this thing does not produce much heat and can be cooled passively by removing the blocks above the Thermo-Regulator if don't want to have to run an external cooling loop it.

Ventilation
6 Comments
Acresi 25 Sep, 2022 @ 11:41am 
Why did you choose natural gas over hydrogen? Does the gas matter?
ganie.wow 4 Jul, 2022 @ 6:38pm 
So i'm curious about this, but if the Gas Stove works similar to the Hydrogen Generator, then running the Natural Gas through the region with the Thermo Regulator should allow it to absorb and delete the heat.
FreshMilk? 3 Jul, 2022 @ 11:39am 
how does your ventilation work for the thermo regulator? when they gas isnt being cooled by the machine does it still circle around?
Ekimmak 3 Jul, 2022 @ 12:16am 
Is it possible to move the AND gate so it isn't sharing space with the Thermo Sensor? I have really bad luck with installing sensors and such on automation gates.
Yvairel  [author] 20 Jun, 2022 @ 2:36pm 
I've had this up and running for over 600 cycles with 4.5 million kcal in deep freeze at the moment. I have not experienced any issues of excess cold leak. The Thermo-Regulator does not run often and it's been very stable for me. If there is a cold leak from the corner tiles the 13.5 kDTU/s from the grill / range seem to prevent that from spinning out of control.
Myrmidon 20 Jun, 2022 @ 8:42am 
leaking cold is not a problem?