# Heating up food with tools should drain batteries

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/heating-up-food-with-tools-should-drain-batteries/8980>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [February 24, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/heating-up-food-with-tools-should-drain-batteries/8980 "2015-02-24T12:35:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Valiant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valiant/32/4788_2.png) [@Valiant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valiant)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/heating-up-food-with-tools-should-drain-batteries/8980/1 "2015-02-24T12:35:39Z")

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As for f1e214f heating up food with coffeemaker (btw, is this possible IRL?) don’t drain any battery charge. I didn’t test other tools that can heat food, but I looked in iuse.cpp and there is no sign of using batteries at all in static bool heat\_item(player \*p). I think there should be little draining (no more than 3 charges) for this action.

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**Author:** ![kittentamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kittentamer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kittentamer)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/heating-up-food-with-tools-should-drain-batteries/8980/2 "2015-02-24T16:30:52Z")

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> [@Valiant](#):
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> As for f1e214f heating up food with coffeemaker (btw, is this possible IRL?)

When I lived in the dorms, a lot of people used coffee makers to make things like ramen at the very least. I never tried it, so I’m not sure how creative they got, but yes. IRL, you can cook with a coffeemaker. =p

Also, most recipes that use things like hotplates do use up charges. I imagine the coffeemaker not using up charges is a bug/oversight.

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**Author:** ![Valiant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valiant/32/4788_2.png) [@Valiant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valiant)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/heating-up-food-with-tools-should-drain-batteries/8980/3 "2015-02-24T18:38:54Z")

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> [@kittentamer](#):
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> Also, most recipes that use things like hotplates do use up charges. I imagine the coffeemaker not using up charges is a bug/oversight.

Crafting with this tools (e.g. boiling water in coffeemaker) correctly use charges. Only heating up food don’t.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/heating-up-food-with-tools-should-drain-batteries/8980/4 "2015-02-24T20:01:40Z")

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This should be in the garage thread, not in the drawing board one.

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**Author:** ![Valiant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valiant/32/4788_2.png) [@Valiant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valiant)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/heating-up-food-with-tools-should-drain-batteries/8980/5 "2015-02-24T20:27:34Z")

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> [@i2amroy](#):
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> This should be in the garage thread, not in the drawing board one.

I didn’t know if this was a bug or a feature, so I posted it here. Sorry if I was wrong.