When Do Cafe World Dishes Go Bad?

When playing Cafe World, scheduling dishes is very important. Knowing when your dishes are ready to serve is the most important way to play the game successfully. Every dish in Cafe World lets you know how long they take to cook before you start them so knowing when they will be done is easy.

For many people, life has other tasks than playing Cafe World. It's not always practical to log in every time a dish completes. Knowing how long a dish can be left on the stove before it spoils gives players a lot more flexibility to schedule their dishes.

Unlike cook times, the time a dish takes to spoils is not provided by the game. The only way to know how long a dish lasts is by trail and error. Most Cafe World chefs will probably already have an idea that the longer a dish takes to cook, the longer it will keep. Anyone who has made chips and guacamole knows what narrow margin of error you have with the quick dishes.

The time it takes for a dish to spoil is in fact directly dependent on how long it takes to cook. This means that it's easy to calculate exactly how long you can leave your dishes before they spoil. Every dish in Cafe World will be good for as long as it took to cook plus 20%. That means for every hour it took to make the dish you can leave it on the stove for another hour and 6 minutes. For the more intense dishes in the game for every 5 minutes of cooking time they will stay good for 6 minutes.

If you don't like doing math here is an overview of some of the most common cooking times and how long take take to spoil.

30 minutes of cooking time means the dish will spoil in 36 minutes.

A dish cooking in 2 hours will spoil in 2 hours and 24 minutes.

If you spend 8 hours on a dish, it will spoil in 9 hours and 36 minutes.

Many dishes complete in 12 hours, they will spoil in 14 hours and 22 minutes.

22 hour preparation time means the dish will spoil in 26 hours and 24 minutes.

As a general rule of thumb many chefs calculate that the time it takes for a dish to spoils is the same as it takes to cook. This is the easiest way to work out cooking schedules, and for the dishes with short preparation time it is still accurate enough to be useful. For longer cook times the added 20% start to have a significant impact on the time you can leave a dish.

This simple rule lets chefs know exactly when they have to serve their food if they don't want it to go bad. Of course, it is always best to serve the food as soon as possible after it is finished but for advanced chefs it can be helpful to know that they can cook a particular dish that gives the most cash or cafe points for the time they have scheduled before they can play the game again.