# Crumb Kitchen

> Tap to bake, then hire helpers who bake for you.

You are the baker: your character, in a chef hat, runs a little bakery. Tap the big cookie to bake, then spend your cookies on rolling pins, mixers, ovens and bigger helpers that bake for you, all the way to a bakery on the moon. The bakery keeps baking while you're away, for up to eight hours, so there is always something waiting when you come back.

- Play: https://sidekickarcade.com/play/crumb-kitchen/ (in the browser, phone or computer, free, no sign-up)
- Neighborhood: [Idle Town](https://sidekickarcade.com/category/idle/index.md)
- Controls: Tap, click, or Space and arrow keys
- Best on: portrait screens
- Coins for goals: 1 per 30 seconds of baking, up to 8 a run

## How to play

1. Tap the big cookie to bake. Clicking it, Space and Enter bake too. Everyone bakes at the same top speed, about eight cookies a second, however fast they tap.
2. Tap a helper in the shop to buy it, or pick one with the arrow keys and press Enter. Rolling pins make every tap bake more. Mixers, ovens and the rest bake by themselves.
3. Each new helper you buy shows the next one. Prices go up a little with every helper.
4. Your bakery keeps baking while you're away, for up to 8 hours. Coins come from your time spent baking, never from waiting.

## Tips

- Early on, buy rolling pins: they make every tap bake more.
- Then put cookies into helpers that bake by themselves, so the bakery grows while you do something else.
- Prices go up with every helper, so compare: a new kind of helper is often the better buy.
- Come back within eight hours. That's how long the bakery keeps baking while you're away.

## Questions

### Is it free?

Yes. It's free to play in your browser, with no download and no sign-up. Coins you earn are for fun and can never be bought.

### Does it keep going when I close it?

Yes. Your bakery keeps baking while you're away, for up to 8 hours.

### Does tapping faster help?

Only up to a point. Everyone bakes at the same top speed, about eight cookies a second, so a fast tapper or an auto-clicker gets no edge.

### Can I play on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It's built for touch first and plays the same on a phone, a tablet, a Chromebook or a computer.

## Achievements

- **First batch** (bronze, 10 coins): Finish your first baking session.
- **Open for business** (bronze, 15 coins): Buy your first helper.
- **Cookie dough** (bronze, 20 coins): Bake 1,000 cookies by hand in one session.
- **Baker's dozen** (bronze, 30 coins): Finish 13 baking sessions.
- **Hot from the oven** (silver, 30 coins): Get an oven for your bakery.
- **Special delivery** (silver, 40 coins): Get a delivery bike.
- **Full shift** (silver, 30 coins): Bake for five busy minutes in one session.
- **Cookie factory** (gold, 60 coins): Build a cookie factory.
- **Up, up and away** (gold, 60 coins): Launch a cookie blimp.
- **Golden hands** (gold, 80 coins): Bake 100,000 cookies by hand in one session.
- **Over the moon** (diamond, 150 coins): Open the Moon Bakery.
- **Million-cookie hands** (diamond, 150 coins): Bake 1,000,000 cookies by hand in one session.

## More to play

- Lemon Lane (coming soon): Set the price and stock for tomorrow's weather. (Idle Town)
- Clover Acres (coming soon): Plant, water and harvest a farm of your own. (Idle Town)
- Whisker Bistro (coming soon): Run a café for cats and dogs. (Idle Town)