Ramen Shop Simulator equipment upgrade is decided by three stats that every piece of kitchen equipment carries: Cooking Time, Gas Consumption and Cooking Slots. Cookware can be upgraded and chosen directly, which makes cooking easier and cheaper, and the Hardware Store is where all of it is sold.
Ramen Shop Simulator equipment upgrade: the three stats
| Stat | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Cooking Time | How long an appliance takes to finish a batch |
| Gas Consumption | How much gas an appliance burns while it works |
| Cooking Slots | How many things you can cook at the same time on it |
Reading the three together is the whole decision. A faster appliance that drinks more gas is only better if you have the gas to feed it, and a machine with more cooking slots is worth most once the queue builds — which is the moment when the rush hours guide starts to matter.
There is a fourth property that is not a number but decides a lot of purchases: some appliances have a chance of never getting dirty, and others can upgrade the ingredients put inside them. A pot that never needs washing removes a step from every closing routine.
New machines are objects, not menu entries. They are bought, carried into the shop and placed by hand, and once a machine is in the wrong spot you can pick it up again in Creation Mode — the move decorations guide has the controls for that mode.
Where the hardware comes from
The Hardware Store sells appliances, spare parts, broth boilers, workbenches and bowls. It is the one shop that is not about food, and it is where the money from a good service should go.
Two kinds of purchase matter most early on:
- The broth boiler, which you need before you can make broth at all. How to use it once it is in the kitchen is in the broth guide.
- Gas. Appliances that run on gas are the ones that need a canister, and the konbini and the fax machine both sell Small Gas Canisters — the missing gas guide covers where the tutorial canister is and why a shop with only the big tank still reports no gas.
Appliances arrive as objects rather than as menu entries. They are bought, then carried into the shop and placed by hand, exactly like pots and pans.
Gas appliances and the two tanks
There are two sizes of gas container and they serve different machines. The small canister is the one the stove uses. The larger tank holds more gas than the small canisters the stove runs on, and it is the broth boiler that it serves.
A shop that only has the large tank can still be told that there is no gas, because the stove wants the small one. That single mismatch is behind a lot of confused new players, and the missing gas guide walks through finding the canister in the tutorial kitchen and buying more.
Selling an appliance again
Appliances can be picked up in decoration mode and sold again on the decoration shelf. That makes an upgrade reversible: if the machine you bought turns out to be wrong for your kitchen, you can pick it up in Creation Mode and sell it back rather than being stuck with it.
Positioning a machine after you buy it uses the same controls as everything else in the shop, so Creation Mode is where you will spend the first minute with a new appliance. If what you want instead is the look of the place, the decorations guide covers where decorative pieces come from.