Ramen Shop Simulator how to make broth works in a dedicated broth boiler that you buy from the Hardware Store, plus a pot that you fill by hand. The part that catches people out is not the cooking, it is the arithmetic: a recipe is written for one serving, and a pot only holds a fixed number of portions, so you have to multiply the ingredients before they go in.
Ramen Shop Simulator how to make broth: the six steps
- Buy the broth boiler at the Hardware Store. It is sold alongside the other appliances and spare parts, not in the food shop.
- Give the boiler gas. It is a gas appliance, so it needs a tank before it will heat anything.
- Choose a pot. The pots come in different sizes — 26L and 36L — and each pot size has its own maximum number of portions.
- Scale the recipe to that pot. Multiply the ingredient amounts by the number of portions you want against the recipe's serving size.
- Place the pot on the stove by hand. Pots and pans are bought separately and set on the stove physically rather than chosen from a menu.
- Check the Notebook. The pot you are working with shows as a "STOCKPOT" with its volume and a list of the ingredients you have already added.
The worked example makes the multiplication obvious. If instant ramen has a serving size of 2 and the 26L pot holds at most 10 portions, you multiply the ingredients by 5. The same rule applies to every recipe: the serving size tells you what one portion needs, the pot tells you how many portions you are making, and the gap between them is your multiplier.
Step six is where the broth actually stops being a shopping problem and becomes a cooking one, and that part has its own rules — the cooking timing guide covers the simmer icon and the timer you fit to the boiler.
One boiler, one broth type
A broth boiler holds one type of broth at a time, which means the demo kitchen can only offer one broth type. The plan for the full game is to install or upgrade the kitchen so that two or more broths can be prepared at the same time, so a one-broth shop is a limitation of the current build rather than a design you are stuck with.
It also has a knock-on effect on the menu. One broth type means one family of bowls, and the number of dishes you can offer is limited by how many recipes you have unlocked as well. How the menu itself is built and why it must never be left empty is in the ticket machine menu guide.
Some recipes do not fit in the smaller pots at all. Those need a larger pot and a bigger stove, so if a recipe refuses to scale into a 26L pot, the answer is the 36L pot rather than a smaller batch.
Pot sizes and how a recipe scales
Two numbers decide everything before the heat goes on:
| Number | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Pot size, 26L or 36L | How much the pot can hold and therefore how many portions fit in it |
| Maximum portions for that pot | The ceiling you scale towards; the 26L pot tops out at 10 portions |
| Recipe serving size | How much of each ingredient one portion needs, which is what you multiply |
| Multiplier | Portions wanted ÷ serving size, rounded to the pot's ceiling |
The Notebook shows the pot you are actually working with as a "STOCKPOT" carrying its volume, such as 57L, together with the ingredients already inside it. That readout is the fastest way to confirm you picked the pot you meant to pick before you start adding anything, and it is the same panel you open when you want to see what a shelf holds.
Check the pot in the Notebook
The cooking station view in the Notebook is the control panel for the whole operation. It lists the pot, its volume and the ingredients already added, which means you can catch a mis-scaled batch before it becomes a pot of expensive soup. The Notebook is also where recipes, objectives and shelves live, so it is worth knowing your way around it — the notebook guide covers the rest of what is in there.
Once the pot is on the stove, the last step is the one everybody forgets on a busy day: nothing stops cooking by itself. The simmer icon and the kitchen timer decide when the broth is done, and that is covered in the cooking timing guide.