# The kitchen

URL: https://marketsunday.com/wiki/kitchen
Markdown: https://marketsunday.com/wiki/kitchen.md
Last updated: 2026-10-20

> Grow seven new crops, build cooking stations and make more than 100 dishes and drinks, from a wedge of cheese to a bottle of aged wine.

The kitchen turns the food you farm into meals. Seven new crops grow beside your wheat, a set of stations turns them into more than 100 dishes, and a Distiller makes beer and wines whose effects grow with age. It all runs on crafting and placing blocks, with no commands to learn.

Furniture from the [Carpenter Bench](/wiki/gameplay/furniture) arrived in the same update and uses the same textures.

## Start cooking

<CommandSequence>
  <Step desc="Accept the Sunday Market textures when you join." note="on Java the prompt reads Required for crops, cooking and furniture; Bedrock downloads them on its own" />

  <Step desc="Craft The Craft of Cooking from a Book and Wheat, in any arrangement." note="once you carry it, the Cooking Pot, Mixing Bowl, Cutting Board and Faucet appear in your recipe book" />

  <Step desc="Break grass for your first seeds." note="Tomato, Corn, Lettuce and Rice Seeds drop in place of Wheat Seeds about half the time" />

  <Step desc="Craft a Cooking Pot from a cauldron and a campfire, in any arrangement, and place it." />

  <Step desc="Right-click the pot, put a Milk Bucket in it and wait a few seconds." note="a Cheese pops out on top, and the empty bucket comes back" />
</CommandSequence>

<Recipe
  ingredients={[
  ['book', 'wheat'],
]}
  output={{ label: 'The Craft of Cooking' }}
  caption="The Craft of Cooking: a Book and Wheat, any arrangement."
/>

<Recipe
  ingredients={[
  ['cauldron', 'campfire'],
]}
  output={{ label: 'Cooking Pot' }}
  caption="Cooking Pot: a cauldron and a campfire, any arrangement."
/>

<Callout type="info">
  On Bedrock, these recipes may not show in the recipe book. Lay the items out by hand in the grid and the result appears.
</Callout>

The pot needs no fire or fuel. It cooks when its slots hold exactly the kinds of item a recipe lists. One extra kind of item stops it, while extra copies of a listed item let it cook the same dish again.

Next, plant your seeds. The [crops page](/wiki/kitchen/crops-and-ingredients) covers planting and harvesting each one. When your corn comes in, Corn and a Water Bottle in the pot make a Tortilla, the base for tacos, burritos and quesadillas.

## Where to set up

Stations, crops and furniture are all blocks, so the usual building rules apply. In the spawn area, from -200 to 200 on both x and z, only members can build. Set up your kitchen at home, or in the market, where anyone can build. See [region protection](/wiki/ranks/region-protection) for where each rule applies.

## The cookbook

The Craft of Cooking is your guide to every dish. Right-click it to read it.

On Java it opens as a book, with sections for Staples, Drinks & Snacks, Light Dishes, Hearty Dishes, Feasts and Desserts, plus a page of seeds. Each page stays hidden until you've held that item. The first time a dish, ingredient or seed lands in your inventory, its page fills in and a notice pops up. You can also set the book on a lectern and read it there.

On Bedrock it opens as a menu with chapters: Front, Staples, Drinks & Snacks, Light Dishes, Hearty Dishes, Feasts and Desserts, with buttons to turn the page. The recipe pages stay locked in that menu, so use [Kitchen recipes](/wiki/kitchen/recipes) here, which lists every dish.

The cookbook covers food only. Station recipes are on [Cooking stations](/wiki/kitchen/stations), and drinks from the Distiller are on [Wines & the distiller](/wiki/kitchen/wines). Two more books, the Foodie Book and Brewer's Digest, open only on Java, so the wiki lists everything they hold.

## Kitchen, tavern or the sign-built pot?

Three things on this server cook or brew, and they don't share recipes.

* **The kitchen** is this section: crafted stations such as the Cooking Pot, Mixing Bowl, Cutting Board and Distiller, the seven new crops, and the dishes and wines they make.
* **[The tavern](/wiki/tavern)** brews drinks in a water cauldron over heat, then in a brewing stand and a barrel. A few tavern drinks share a name with kitchen ones, such as Coffee, Iced Coffee, Hot Chocolate and Apple Cider. They are different items, so follow the recipe for the system you're using.
* **[The sign-built cooking pot](/wiki/gameplay/building-mechanisms#cook-food-over-fire)** is netherrack, fire and a chest with a `[Cook]` sign. It cooks the raw food in its chest, fueled by coal, and makes none of the kitchen's dishes.

## In this section

* **[Crops & ingredients](/wiki/kitchen/crops-and-ingredients)**: seeds, planting and harvest for all seven crops, and the ingredients you prepare first
* **[Cooking stations](/wiki/kitchen/stations)**: the Cooking Pot, Stove, Mixing Bowl, Cutting Board, Distiller and the rest
* **[Kitchen tools & decor](/wiki/kitchen/tools-and-decor)**: knives, scythes, the Pail, hats, plates, books and other finds
* **[Kitchen recipes](/wiki/kitchen/recipes)**: every dish, with its station, ingredients and effects
* **[Wines & the distiller](/wiki/kitchen/wines)**: every drink, how ageing works and what each one does
* **[Furniture & the carpenter bench](/wiki/gameplay/furniture)**: chairs, tables and more from the Carpenter Bench